The communication difficulties for foreigners in Rwanda

Abstract

The study entitled “The Communication difficulties for Foreigners in Rwanda.”, was conducted in the Republic of Rwanda. The problem of this study emanates from numerous difficulties that the foreigners who live in Rwanda meet in their daily communications. It set out to meet three objectives: (1) To access the Linguistic backgrounds of Foreigners who live in Rwanda. (2) To find out the difficulties in communications faced by the foreigners in Rwanda. (3) To highlight the solutions that overcome the difficulties in Communications for foreigners in Rwanda. To achieve these objectives, the study used a questionnaire, interviews, and documentation. The collected data were presented into figures and tables, and statistically analysed. The findings revealed that many foreigners who live in Rwanda have a different linguistic background from Rwandans. Secondly, the results mentioned some difficulties that the foreigners meet in Rwanda and some opportunities that they missed due to those difficulties. Lastly, the findings showed some solutions that can be taken to handle difficulties in communications for foreigners who live in Rwanda. To conclude, the study recommends that foreigners who travel to Rwanda have to be aware of Rwandan culture, as well as the Rwandan national language (Kinyarwanda), and recognise the use of the Language Service Providers (LSP) in their services.