Do you actively use a Nigerian language in your everyday lives? Are you proud of the fact that you can speak a Nigerian language or do you prefer English? What do you think of people who can't speak their native tongue? Or people who live abroad and who don't speak their language to their children? Or even Nigerians in Nigeria who have children that only understand English? Do you think people shun their native languages, because English is a more "cultured" or "sophisticated" language?

these are more like exam questions! 

I juta isi nkita, I were agba ya mee gini?
If you get the answers, what will you do with it?

Mo bere ni to ri pe awon kan wa ti won fe so ede won ni ajo
I ask because there are some people that do not want to speak their language in a strange man's land.

Everyone has their reasons but the way I see it is this. I see chinese people speak their language fluently, even their kids speak. Indians nko, na same situation. But some Nigerians I have seen sometimes only speak English and speak English to their children, I just think that we shouldn't let the languages of Nigeria become endangered, so to speak, when the next generation may not even know how to speak it, I am proudly Nigerian and love the fact that we all can speak the Yoruba language even though we live outside of Nigeria.

O na bu onye suo asusu ala ya, nke ka nke ndi si na ha jere akwukwo rie nne e were onye ahu ka obu onye na ejero akwukwo, ya mere otutu wee were oyibo ka obu asusu ya ka osorokwa na otu.
(translate)
If one stick to his native language the most educated once especially will take the person as an illiterate, so many decides stick to English as if it's his/her native language just to belong to the class.

zarazara:

I just think that we shouldn't let the languages of Nigeria become endangered, so to speak, when the next generation may not even know how to speak it.

Gbam!!! True talk.

Personally, I speak English only in the office or when am with people that don't understand Igbo language. Any other times, Igbo all the way.

oziomatv:

If one stick to his native language the most educated once especially will take the person as an illiterate, so many decides stick to English as if it's his/her native language just to belong to the class.

Consider someone as illiterate just because he/she speaks his/her native language? Unacceptable. Afterall, English is a native language to the english.

echelon:


Consider someone as illiterate just because he/she speaks his/her native language? Unacceptable. Afterall, English is a native language to the english.

Colonial mentality influences our day to day reasoning in Nigeria making culture and tradition to looks local.

If I got you right, you meant that "colonial mentality influences our day to day reasoning in Nigeria making culture and tradition to look local unfashionable"?

Sure it is local. But for me, it's one of my drives. Let colonial mentality influence those it will influence. qed

echelon:

If I got you right, you meant that "colonial mentality influences our day to day reasoning in Nigeria making culture and tradition to look local unfashionable"?

Sure it is local. But for me, it's one of my drives. Let colonial mentality influence those it will influence. qed

         TRY TALK TO A GIRL FROM YOUR VILLAGE WITHOUT ADDING ENGLISH.

oziomatv:

         TRY TALK TO A GIRL FROM YOUR VILLAGE WITHOUT ADDING ENGLISH.

only a village girl would assume that because a man from same village as her that approached/talked to her with the local native dialet is uneducated.

ifyalways:

only a village girl would assume that because a man from same village as her that approached/talked to her with the local native dialet is uneducated.

Is it not happening here in Nairaland, when some will tell you plain that you're an illiterate because you made a typo error. to talk of responding in Pigeon english, less to talk of Igbo language.

oziomatv:

Is it not happening here in Nairaland, when some will tell you plain that you're an illiterate because you made a typo error. to talk of responding in Pigeon english, less to talk of Igbo language.

who cares about faceless people?you do? I don't 
i wud speak english to you if its the only means of communicating with you.

ifyalways:

who cares about faceless people?you do? I don't
i can only speak to you in english if thats the only means of communicating with you.

Me? care for who? except am looking for a housegirl.

oziomatv:

Me? care for who? except am looking for a housegirl.

hmmmmmn 
@Topic,whatever language one feels comfortable with,fluent with it and the addresse understands too,lol let it flow jare.As for me and my household speaking  of igbo,Ijaw,french,Urhobo and Itsekiri languages is compulsory. 

oziomatv:

TRY TALK TO A GIRL FROM YOUR VILLAGE WITHOUT ADDING ENGLISH.

Talking from experience

echelon:

Talking from experience

No, am not a victim besides there are things that make woman lay low to a Guy, I boast on that.

Thank God that i am Yoruba, we speak our language fluently here in yanki, my other Nigerians here don't speak there native languages like the minorities from the delta region or the midwest (Edo). What a shame.

If one stick to his native language the most educated once especially will take the person as an illiterate, so many decides stick to English as if it's his/her native language just to belong to the class.

I think that's sad. Yes, sure, if someone wants to be a part of the so-called class system, I think they should go for it but their quest for acceptance should not be at the peril of their native tongue or even more, to the detriment of future generations? That would be totally ignorant, and even selfish some. I know people who wished they had taught their children how to speak their language now that the kids are grown and can't even understand 'hello' in their parent's language. In fact, other nationalities are so proud of their languages and would happily speak it to their children. Think Chinese, Somali, Indian, French, Italian etc,

I speak my native language and i make sure that i use the authentic (so called local) accent to show how much i love my country and i am educated.

We are losing our mentality,language,religion,culture,gbogbue,to the west,and lose all these things,you lose the fundamentals,thus the chaos in africa today.We don't have true sense of anything anymore,because we don't see things originally anymore,rather it's second handed,copycats,our windows to  the world seems to be whiteman's windows,we are neither blacks nor whites.

We need a dynamic culture that we can propagate, to see the world in your eyes and at the same time be scientific.