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| How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by Mavrick2012: 7:57pm On Jan 11, 2013 |
YORUBA:shoe-sue, iron-hayon, shine-sign, error-herror, very-ferry, Jesus-jisos HAUSA:fan-pan, plenty-flenty, very-bery, education-edukeijin, believe-bliv, religion-relijin, philip-pilif, felisha-pelisha, pele-fele IGBO:raw-law, wrong-long, evening-even, thousand-tazan, light-write, Roland-lorand. Guys,pls assist me wit more,you are free to give dat of any language,calabar,igala,idoma,edo,french,china etc but it should b how dey pronounce english words. |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by ayobase(m): 8:21pm On Jan 11, 2013 |
No be our fault na...our mother's tongue comes first...english na borrow....even germany, china, Spain, Portugal and other countries have their intonations and methods of pronunciation...let's not keep ridiculing ourselves....I don't know why we like trying so hard in everything! |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by EzePromoe: 8:44pm On Jan 11, 2013 |
Calabar: Junction- Yanshan , talk- tchok, please- mpris, listen- disten, oga- uka, goat- coat, Infact- mfak Ijaw: generator- zenarator, just-zus etc Edo: Generator-zshenaghator, champion- shampion Yoruba: Television- telifison, recharge card- resars card, Hausa: Plenty-pfulenti, Office-oh-pis, speak-suvik Igbo: twenty-tonti, kerosene-kolozinu, money-mwohni 1 Like |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by Nobody: 8:59pm On Jan 11, 2013 |
Your yoruba example applies to only Ibadan indigenes. |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by confusion247(m): 9:06pm On Jan 11, 2013 |
Bolushalom: Your yoruba example applies to only Ibadan indigenes.So ibadan idigenes are not yorubas? |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by Nobody: 9:24pm On Jan 11, 2013 |
confusion247:did i imply that? |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by OkikiOluwa1(m): 9:49pm On Jan 11, 2013 |
TDM Activated! Ibo: Oil_Oyel, Love_Roff, Yoruba: Travel_Trafu |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by Mavrick2012: 10:41pm On Jan 11, 2013 |
ayobase: No be our fault na...our mother's tongue comes first...english na borrow....even germany, china, Spain, Portugal and other countries have their intonations and methods of pronunciation...let's not keep ridiculing ourselves....I don't know why we like trying so hard in everything!bros i undastand how u fil n may i say am sory,bt u seem to misundastand d essence of dis thread,dis is aimd at helpin us to undastand n even apreciate ourselfs.wit dis thread,weneva u com incontact wit a housa man n he says "flenty" instead of "plenty",u easily undastand him.dis isnt 2 mock our rich culture.well,am sory once again |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by NRIPRIEST(m): 12:27am On Jan 12, 2013 |
Igbo.....Anambra...mostly traders. London...Rondon Rice....lice Market...maketi Lagos...legos |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by NRIPRIEST(m): 1:46am On Jan 12, 2013 |
Yoruba... Run...ghun Television...itelefishionu London...londoonu Yes...yels |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by tpia5: 2:09pm On Jan 12, 2013 |
Dumb, boring thread. |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by EzePromoe: 2:27pm On Jan 12, 2013 |
Okiki_Oluwa: TDM Activated!Nah, Igbos don't substitute 'v' for 'f' , it's part of our tongue. |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by OkikiOluwa1(m): 2:36pm On Jan 12, 2013 |
Eze Promoe:I M TALKING ABT YORUBAS. Travel_Trafu. |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by EzePromoe: 2:47pm On Jan 12, 2013 |
Okiki_Oluwa: I M TALKING ABT YORUBAS. Travel_Trafu.I quoted what I saw. |
| Re: How Yorubas,housas And Igbos Pronounce English Words by Busuyib(f): 10:11am On Oct 19, 2013 |
CALABAR: God - Cot. IGBO: roundabout - rounbadout[b][/b] |
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