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Line 1: How is your wife
Yaya uwargida? (Yā̀yā̀ uwargidā?)

How is your wife?

• Listen several times to the tone and flow.
• Try imitating the tone and rhythm in the “la-da-da” or humming voice.
• Sketch out the tone contour.
• As mentioned in a note about “ina kwana,” the falling tone at the end of the sentence is because it is a question, not because “uwargidā” itself ends in a falling tone.
• Listen and repeat the phrase until you match the speaker closely.