well how many of you speak pidgin to ur folks, and how many of you would speak to ur kids, even if i dont marry a naiaja, my kids must know how to speak pidgin, yoruba, tagalog, etc,

i speak pidgin to my folks. even my mum who aint naija, i speak pidgin to her, even anytime shes here an dwe dont want these peeps here to know wat were talking bout, my mum speaks pidgin, lol( broken pidgin),

so i was disscussing wid a friend and she was like why on earth would she speak pidgin to her folks, its like a sort of disrespect, i dont see anythn bad in it, well lets see ur opinions

Wait oo, what is tagalog?

Do i speak pidgin to my dad? Now that i think of it, NO! We speak it when we r u know, making fun or tryna get to the naija thing, but nahh we don't speak pidgin. lol Yourba or english, and when my head spark, i speak hausa to him and translate wat i said.

I only speak pidgin once in 45 blue moons.

I don't think it's disrespect if u do, u would know the kinda level u and ur parents her before u open ur mouth now. Shey u grew up with them.

no i dont speak pidgin to my parents i only speak pidgin to my friends when i want to be funny or when im playing around

tagalog na my mama language, lol yeah most of the time is wen we joke now, kai how would i be serious wid my dad and speak pigin to him, na slap go land on my face, like once wen i was sleeping and dad woke me up, i was like o boy leave me alone o, u no know sey i don tire, my brother was like pupsi shook his head and laughed, he was like this gurl is going nutts, yeah i lived wid them, my pidgin wid them depends on how we are at that moment, but now that we are away, since my yoruba is wck, na pidgin i dey always blast.

hot a would u teach u kids pidgin

Shuuu, Teach them?? Dem no dey teach person pidgin. U go learn by yourself ni.

I wont kill them if they speak it, just let them know that the world doesn't understand it, and i will NOT stay and watch my kids tun into warri kids. Mmba. na!!

hot angel u don kolo, and i kinda like pidgin o, lol

I can't speak pidgin. But, I never considered the language anything other than poorly educated Nigerians struggling to learn English.

hmm afeni, well diff people wid diff perceptions, i really like it, dunno why??

I do speak it as often as anything wt ma siblings bt rarely with ma parents unless we r joking o. But really i speak it more often with ma mum than ma dad.

hhmmm i dont speak pidgin to ma parents
i barely speak pidgin at all
buh i wud onli speak it wen im wit ma cousins or tyrna be funni
cum ta fink of it imma start speakin pidgin ta ma dad nd see wut does

lol, just try it its fun , really i still prefer wrapping wid him in pidgin than yoruba

i can't speak, write and hardly hear, infact, i don't only lil ones but once u make a sentence, am lost

i speak to my mum atimes my dad NO GO AREA with that

i don't and will not teach my children such when the time comes.

why is that

I speak pidgin with my mum occasionally.Like many people i thought pidgin english was for the uneducated and underprivileged, but looking at my opinion in retrospect i disagree. Pidgin was the only language in nigeria that was really valid accross ethnic group and social classes, although more popular with some(this is why artists like fela choose to use it as a language medium even though he could speak perfect english).As far as teaching my kids i dont think that will be necessary, they will pick it up if they are in a social  context that permits it. ABI I DEY CRAZE, IF I DEY CRAZE I GO PUT EBA FOR NOSE OOOOOOOOOO   LMAO

lmao, i dont really mean teaching them, ok like if i get married to a chinko, or some other race, i would of cos let them know the diff culture they rep now. let them know yoruba, tagalog, pidgin , my husbands watever, lol

Ooh of course i will definitely let my have an idea of the scope of languages in Nigeria including pidgin.

yeah, thats it, btw welcome hope u ave fun, if ure male, beware of the gurls in here, lol

I can't speak pidgin. I seriously can't. Sometimes (even though I don't understand) I find it funny, other times, I find it 'weird'. Nobody speaks pidgin on daily basis in my house. Actually, nobody speaks pidgin at all.

its no crime speaking pidgin! ? i dont speak pidgin to my parents. i hardly use my language igbo to communicate with my dad,can manage with my mum.but for my siblings,pidgin can go. my parents never taught me pidgin,i learnt it myself in school (higher institution.) i catch my fun speaking it to friends i've not seen for a long time.

there is nothing bad in speaking pidgin language.i speak it to my younger sister and my kool friends.dat is if i,m bored.but most people hate it when u speak it.cos they believe is 4 people of lower class.i mean who r less opportuned.it is left 4 my kids to speak it as far they can speak d correct english.

In most east african countries swahili is the national language apart from the official e.g English in the case of Kenya. We all know that pidgin is the only medium of communication amongst Nigerians of all works of life and I feel it is high time we give it a national recognition.

I grew up speaking grammatically correct English at home because my parents were very particular about it. I am grateful for that. We may say that pidgin English is more widely spoken within Nigeria, but then Nigeria is not the whole world. It has always been a source of irritation when I see Nigerians over here struggling to knit sentences together in the same language that they were actually taught in school with.
While in my last two years in the university, I learnt how to speak pidgin English and can now smoothly switch between both. So I can converse with the Queen as well as the tomato seller at Uselu Market in Benin.
The issue here is that I got solidly drilled in universally spoken English BEFORE venturing into learning pidgin English.
Whether we want to admit it or not, learning both languages the other way round is not very wise. Pidgin English may sound cool, but what seems cool isn't always cool. I can't have my kids jabbering away like bus-conductors plying the Ugbowo-Ring Road route in Benin while they are still in their formative years.
Finally, pidgin to my parents? Never.
My parents to their kids? Never.
My parents to the neighbours back then? Sometimes.
Us to the neighbours? Sometimes.
All in all: I have the best of both worlds, but still prefer speaking correct English.

can't speak it dat good so nope!!

I don't + I can't.
my parents would probably think i took some drug overdose. they don't speak it either.
Just Yoruba and English.

Why not?!
ITs kind of like a code of mine that has been deciphered.
I speak pidgin english nearly all the time, so anytime i resort to Proper English,
Whatever is spoken about that time is more often than not a lie.

Morals: I speak English when i lie,

iice:

I speak a mixture of english, pidgin and Tagalog 2 my mom, but if she doesn't want d peeps here 2 know what we r talking about, we do a mixture of pidgin and hausa , Me sha if i get pikin, i go teach am all d language wey i know oh but pidgin go b hin 1st tongue lol, As for my family members, i can't speak straight english 2 them, always pidgin, even when i was in high school, i used 2 get fined and punished 2 speaking pidgin but how pesin go do now? Na my language(because i don't speak my dad's language) so i must blast the thing anyhow i want oh, All the naija peeps here, i no fit dey speak english 2 them oh, be like say we don dey form dey 4get our fatherland na lie!!! I no go let am happen! Case in point: my bro girlfriend never go naija, she na chinko, but she dey speak pidgin because we dey blast am anyhow 4 her wey she gas learn am oh

thats why i love my sis so much, lol does ur mum also speak hausa, thats cool o lmao at pidgin being the 1st language, i was surprised at ur bros gf still surprised oo, lol i need to step up my sis in law, or maybe she shuld come live wid s----n for a month, shell learn it straight, lol

wuts pidgin?

it's a kind Of language lol