Fon is Fun

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Hi Chris,

Thanks for the time you've taken to put together your site. My daughter Sara leaves for Benin as a PCV on Sept. 23rd and I've been reading what I can about her country. Your writing has been of great interest, has helped me see what life will be like for her. Thank you so much for telling us about Benin.

As a soon-to-be-PCV leaving for Benin in 2 weeks, I was THRILLED to find your site. Thanks for taking the time to share of your experiences and for increasing the confidence of this slightly-apprehensive volunteer....

What a wonderful site. I may never get to Benin, but I can learn Fon! Thanks for the start.

I went on Canada World Youth Quebec-Benin 2000-01 and spent time in Allada. Your website brought back so many memories, and made me laugh, specially the Yovo Yovo Bonsoir song, (it also drove me crazy) Thanks for the Fon stuff, I had learned some but now I can brush up if I go back.

Je suis beninoise mais je vis en France Bravo et merci c'est le plus beau site sur le Benin j'espere que les gens qui ne connaissent pas ce pays pourront se faire une idée.
Koudo azo

Salut Chris,
Merci pour le changement d'URL et encore bravo pour ton site que je visite toujours avec plaisir. Si tu as besoin d'un coup de main pour la mise en forme (non pas la traduction car j'en suis incapable!) des pages en français n'hésite pas, je me ferai un plaisir de te donner un coup de main.
Amitiés

Vancouver, British Columbia - we got the 2010 winter Olympics, baby!!!

Awesome website! I'm a student that will be participating in a 7 month exchange program, where I'll be spending half that time in Benin doing volunteer work. Your website was well put together, although I'd still like some additional info on the Fon language - anyone know if there's any dictionaries or grammar resources out there? If so, let me know

Kou do azo! That is a great initiative that would get more people to certainly know more on that wonderful place in Africa. I am copying the url of your site to most people so that they would know more about Benin and visit it and get inspired as well!

I was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin. I lived in Benin from June 1998 to July 1, 2000. This site is wonderful, you have taken a lot of time on this and it looks great. If you ever want to exchange stories feel free to e-mail me. Congratulations and thank you!!!

Native of Benin living in France

Just a simple word to comment your job " GREAT" , "GREAT" and "GREAT" . Even as a native of Benin I could not do it the way you did .....thank you so much for bringing this language into the light

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For interested people, I'm also looking for penpals all over the world .
Bye

Congratulations to this beautiful Homepage!

I just have some comments to add: The Benin Kingdom in southern Nigeria is populated by Edo people, the Ibo live more in the east and they are not organised in a kingdom like that. When Dahomey changed its name to Benin the government had to seek for approval by the Oba (king) of the Benin Kingdom in Nigeria! The word Dahomey originally also derives from an edo name of a conquerer that was sent by the oba and even reached togo, where the present president Yadema is still of edo origin!

hi there,
Just wanted to thank you very much because this website enabled me to learn basics so I could start seapking with the mother from my boyfriend wich only speaks Fon!!!!
ablo kaka! Now I live with my boyfriend in Germany, and I can assure you: Fon is Fun is Germany as well!!!!!!

My family just came back from living in Benin, where I grew up-I am 14. I really like your website. Thankyou for making Benin seem close in this way. Do you have a recipe for beancakes or 'yovo docos' (those doughnut things)?

Staraces,

How are you doing? Thanks for the coins. I like your web site. Nana got me here and we looked at some of your pictures. Thanks for the dough for my First Communion too. Nice sound effects with Nestor and Maxine. I think Maxine is saying "Hello Meow" Do I win the prize? I think Nestor is saying "Get out of here"

Love, Ryan

I want to alert everyone to a new album by a Beninese artist.The album is KALETA JAA.The artist,KALETA,successfully marries traditional African Rhythms with danceable pop/r&b sounds accessible to International audiences.
There are soundclips of some of the songs on cdbaby.com as well as some information about the artist and his considerable credentials.

Victoria, British Columbia

My 10-year-old son and I had a great time learning some Fon. Being able to hear it spoken is great. This is very valuable to anyone considering visiting Benin, I would think (sure feels so to me!). Merci.

You really do have a nice website, I really like it. I have been in Benin twice, first time for almost two months. I have worked for a NGO in Bopa/ Lobogo, the region Mono. The other time I was in Benin, was last summer with a friend of mine. We have been to Bopa/Lobogo to see some friends and we have travelled around Benin, Togo and Ghana.

I asked the word 'congratulations' in Fon for the friend I have travelled with. She has to go to a wedding of a Beninese couple, here in the Netherlands. She wanted to know how to write 'congratulations' on the card. And maybe I can use it an other day. I still have contact with a Beninese friend. In Bopa/ Lobogo they speak Sahouè, but it looks like Fon (a bit) and the Beninese friend I am talking about, does speak Fon also. He has send me a book in Fon to learn the language... So if you are looking for a word (that you don't know yet) you can ask me. Maybe it's in the book.

Edabo!

Maaike

je suis d'origine beninoise

je ne suis jamais allee dans mon pays d'origine, et je souhaite y aller tres bientot....merci pour le website update it as often as u can
je vis au texas US en ce moment...
merci encore

Je suis née en Haiti et je vis au Canada, à Montréal

Site très intéressant et qui rendra certainement de grands services aux curieux, aux voyageurs et aux chercheurs.

Hi D,
I'm not up to date on Angelique's tour schedule. I checked Kim's Oremi Forever Website which she updated on Tuesday and she had the venue for this concert listed as unknown. You may want to contact Kim at http://www.angelfire.com/ak3/oremiforever/angelique.html for more info. If anyone knows it would be Kim.

Chris

Hi Chris,
What's Angelique going to be doing in NYC on weds.,April 9th?

Michigan, United States

What a terrific website with such wonderful photos of Benin. I feel very fortunate to have found such a resource while researching for a presentation to my fellow graduate students on Benin. Thank you for maintaining and providing this excellent website!!

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

I was in Benin from 1997 to 1999 with the Peace Corps. I lived in Come and was good friends with Brian Naulty and James Rosoff. I spent many hours in your house with your dog. Katy lived in Ouidah for a year. We named our dog here in the US Kwabo. He enjoyed your recording of "Kwabo." This is an amazing website that brings back great memories. We especially felt nostalgic about the Yovo song.

Chris:
Hello, how are you doing ?
I was just watching last Sunday a documentary on tv about Benin (www.globetrekker.com). I was watching it for about two hours. It was about a girl who went there and spent sometime mixed with the locals there. It was amazing. I've always been fascinated by traveling to Asia, Africa. Then I became more interested on Benin and started looking for something on the net. I tried some sites and then yours> I just started looking at the pictures, become more interested and kept looking for a while. I was amazed, I rellly loved the site. I saved it on my favorites and will make sure to read all the stories you issued there.

I have some friends all over the world, some due to the internet, some others from time ago, by letter, when the internet was not known. I am interested in writing to you and exchange some experiences. I live in Mexico, in the border with Texas. So if you do not mind, write back please. Congratulations on your site, It is one of the best I've seen !!! Keep it up

Hope to hear from you soon !
Thanks for your attention to this e-mail
Alfredo