 So it's crazy to say that I picked up the majority of my Swahili at my school in southeast Ohio. So yes, it's very strange. In the university's kitchen, students are learning to cook some local dishes. Neha Sridhar is a linguistic major from the University of Kansas. It's a really great language to learn because you can communicate with so many people. It's a very large language that people just aren't aware of, I think, in America since there's not as many diasporas there.