If you didn't spend your first 13years abroad,even if you live abroad for 40years your accent can't change unless you are forming it.

My friends use to laff at me when I tried .. So I stopped and just speak Yoruba or cockney

Pseudonymous:
9. Your friends, whenever you try to speak pidgin:


Please stop.

Abeg who has ijebu garri?....i neva chop since time immemorial.

I'm here to check for names n to look at pictures...

They always like to show "I too sabi attitude". Even the literates who by chance traveled will be forming assent on top wrong English.

I launched today a free access audio book series.
kindly follow the link below
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1,2, 10 be the funniest!

1 was so apt, the first price you pay for that 'haccent' is yellow cab operators slamming you with ridiculous fares

una no try at all not even 1 like for all these posts

yomz1e:
My friends use to laff at me when I tried .. So I stopped and just speak Yoruba or cockney

Cockney accent? It's one of the very few accents I've tried to mimic. Always failed at that. :-/

nigerians will be forming 'received pronunciation' and yet their diction is zero...i heard if cant form or speak british accent during OAP auditioning,u wll be automatically disqualified......y do we fool ourselves with low self esteem? For crying out loud,nigerian accent is 5th most loved accent in d world.

I boarded a bus(god is good motors) yeaterday and there was dis benin man forming american accent.he was just fooling himself complaining and making calls in american accent.trust nigerians inside d bus:everybody turned deaf ears

Dry joke!!! Take am

Millz404:
Naija American : aey son, amma need you to geh me somwer real quick, i need to geh som'im, unowom sayin

Taxi man : ok oga, ur money na 10 thousand naira

Naija American : jesus christ, since when, bia nwokem, don't play with me, its 500 naira

It's called Linguistic reset.

MENTORCH:
If you didn't spend your first 13years abroad,even if you live abroad for 40years your accent can't change unless you are forming it.

There are accent coaches bro.

Listen to Boris Kodjoe speak.
He moved to the U.S. in his 20s, and speaks like an American.

It is possible bro, just that it is very tough.
But with determination, and using accent coaches, it us achievable.
I did that with French

missingrib:
Not spicy enough... More ingredients needed

Hehe shey you know how to cook?
you can add spices ni

McBrooklyn:
Lol, and this is for the BlackBerry users worldwide

If only bb curve can take selfie.

Watch eastenders and TOWIE

junnyjake:


Cockney accent? It's one of the very few accents I've tried to mimic. Always failed at that. :-/

yomz1e:
Watch eastenders and TOWIE

Sure would do. Thanks.

Wats happening here?

I learnt my lesson the hard way. I just let my brother do the talking for me. The fear of a Nigerian is the beginning of wisdom.

Their problems anyway read this story
By Smallville10

Very very true

YhungPablo:


If only bb curve can take selfie.

Lol

Naija foreign accent

the pidgin part is so true. my cousins are always laughing at the way i speak. ugh
the day i will visit Nigeria, i'm gonna have a Nigerian accent by force. I cant be dealing with all this

MENTORCH:
If you didn't spend your first 13years abroad,even if you live abroad for 40years your accent can't change unless you are forming it.

you're kind of right but if you go abroad as a child and spend a significant amount of time with children with foreign accents at school, its very easy to catch on because children are very impressionable. Even if you went abroad at the age of 13, you could still have your accent affected by the people around you. happened to me