languages

the bambara that people speak here isn't really bambara at all. it's a dialect of bambara and i don't understand half of what my host family says to me but they understand me pretty well, although they don't always say the responses I thought normal. Some guy asked me today why I spoke Bambara and not Malinke ( the dialect he speaks although some might consider it a whole nother language). I told him because I am from Mali and I lived in a Bambara village, he didn't think that mattered... Anyway my Bamabra passes here....
I also decided that I'm going to focus on Wolof instead of Peul. Wolof will be more useful in the rest of the country and if I decide to stay another year in Dakar. But I'm going to try and learn some Peul greetings.