cstr55:
The igbo language is going to be the first language to die off in that country.
Nitwits.

lepasharon:


Are you a conehead?

freecocoa:
No need to prioritise any,people(especially kids) can speak more than one languages fluently.

cstr55:

I am a flattie with a brain.

wandeay:
Pple still dey speak dat language?

lepasharon:

Keep disgracing urself npama

musicwriter:
I salute her zeal to speak Igbo.
Education means being able to speak your own language before learning to speak any other. Its very unfortunate, brainwashing education has reduced us to thinking the opposite is the case.

"With English, no race would have an advantage.... English as our working language has... given us a competitive advantage because it is the international language of business and diplomacy, of science and technology"

And the above statement by Lee K. Yew is very wrong!. English alone did not give Singapore a competitive edge, but their policy on immigration which source the best brain from English speaking countries. I' am sure he will soon regret switching learning to English as China take over the US as the world power. Even US schools are now offering Chinese and Mandarin classes.

Secondly, English is not the language of science or technology. That statement even sound childish to me. Any language could be the language of science or technology. Japan is more scientifically and technologically advanced than Britain!. Russia was the first country to send man to space!!. What nonsense is he talking?!!.

Thank God I didn't buy his book "the Singapore story". I nearly bought that book sometime last year, but I can see its a complete trash.

cstr55:

Really? How did i disgrace myself, woman?

Ishilove:
One of my former wards once confessed to me how her father banned his kids from speaking Yoruba language at home and in school. When I asked why he did such an unthinkable thing, she could not explain.

I on my part forced myself to start learning my native tongue when I was 12. Before then I could not understand it well even though my parents spoke it at home. Even at that age, I sensed that it is imperative that I mastered my native tongues for reasons that wasn't made clear until many years later.

Our language is part of our heritage. Relegating it in favour of a foreign one is the height of mental slavery and inferiority complex.

lepasharon:

Keep disgracing urself npama

musicwriter:
I salute her zeal to speak Igbo.
Education means being able to speak your own language before learning to speak any other. Its very unfortunate, brainwashing education has reduced us to thinking the opposite is the case.

"With English, no race would have an advantage.... English as our working language has... given us a competitive advantage because it is the international language of business and diplomacy, of science and technology"

And the above statement by Lee K. Yew is very wrong!. English alone did not give Singapore a competitive edge, but their policy on immigration which source the best brain from English speaking countries. I' am sure he will soon regret switching learning to English as China take over the US as the world power. Even US schools are now offering Chinese and Mandarin classes.

Secondly, English is not the language of science or technology. That statement even sound childish to me. Any language could be the language of science or technology. Japan is more scientifically and technologically advanced than Britain!. Russia was the first country to send man to space!!. What nonsense is he talking?!!.

Thank God I didn't buy his book "the Singapore story". I nearly bought that book sometime last year, but I can see its a complete trash.

lepasharon:


Ur comment on igbo language

WINNERMENTALITY:
Thats how my Aunty never spoke Igbo to her children and today all of them are shy among their own relatives..

Her first daughter married a yorouba, second Edo, the third one, [/b]they said that one MUST marry an igbo..
Some parent dont know that stuff like this do hunt their children role in associating with people in later years...


MY children whether am living in china,calgary,Lagos, they must be able to speak igbo at the age of 5.
Even though i marry a non igbo, my children must learn igbo as their first language.

Afam4eva:

It's not about prioritizing. Parents should understand that kids will always pick up English since that it what's the language of instruction in schools. There's a need to put in more effort to teach them Igbo because they may not have the opportunity to learn it elsewhere.

Afam4eva:

It's not about prioritizing. Parents should understand that kids will always pick up English since that it what's the language of instruction in schools. There's a need to put in more effort to teach them Igbo because they may not have the opportunity to learn it elsewhere.

cstr55:

I am not wrong na.
The igbo language would be the first to disintegrate. Evey indices points to it. The UN even made a study about it.
Go to lagos and see thousands of igbo children speaking ngbatii-ngbatii. Igbo parents nowadays wants their kids speaking the queen's english like a deranged lunatic and detest any mention of the igbo language in the home.
While igbo single men and women who are increasingly getting to married to other ethnics fail to impress their culture on their kids and so lose their children to the other culture. It is rampant nowadays.
An example that can you relate to is that of peter okoye's kids. The kids attended a cultural day in their school in yoruba agbada while their surname clearly spells okoye.
Everybody shrugged it off like it is nothing, but i know it is a growing phenomenon that can be very dangerous. It is a subtle psychological attack on igbo consciousness.
It is a shame, i know , but it is the truth. And i love the truth.

cstr55:

The highlighted is one of the major reasons why the igbo language is dying.
The women are the custodians of the culture everywhere and when the young women are lost enmass to other strange cultures, it can be very dangerous. We are going to see the effect of all these inter-tribal marriages in the next 50 years.
I love inter-tribal marriage, but not at the expense of my beautiful igbo language and culture.

freecocoa:
They don't need no extra effort to teach a language spoken in the house, if you speak it to them, they'll learn it easily.

If anything, English is what you should get them classes for, because it is a much more complex language

WINNERMENTALITY:

True, igbo Language is dying and i sense it too. Do you know children growing up in igbo land are being punished for speaking igbo at school. Me personally was punished because of same case, that was 15 years back...

The goverment should help control that evil believe creeping in most of all this private school that believe speaking English language properly is proportional to high IQ.. that is wrong, very wrong.

cstr55:

I am not wrong na.
The igbo language would be the first to disintegrate. Evey indices points to it. The UN even made a study about it.
Go to lagos and see thousands of igbo children speaking ngbatii-ngbatii. Igbo parents nowadays wants their kids speaking the queen's english like a deranged lunatic and detest any mention of the igbo language in the home.
While igbo single men and women who are increasingly getting to married to other ethnics fail to impress their culture on their kids and so lose their children to the other culture. It is rampant nowadays.
An example that can you relate to is that of peter okoye's kids. The kids attended a cultural day in their school in yoruba agbada while their surname clearly spells okoye.
Everybody shrugged it off like it is nothing, but i know it is a growing phenomenon that can be very dangerous. It is a subtle psychological attack on igbo consciousness.
It is a shame, i know , but it is the truth. And i love the truth.

Ugosample:


You are talking rubbish....

Polish people, or let me say children of polish, and even Czech people don't speak Czech/Polish (most of them) yet their language is still spoken in Czech and Poland...

Why did I say this

Because as long as Igbo is still spoken in Igbo land, Igbo cannot go extinct.....

Where trouble will start is when in the whole of the SE, NOBODY speaks Igbo Anymore....

As for Igbo children out of Igbo land, what do you expect?

cstr55:

There is nothing complex about the English, unless you are going to study english as a course.
The igbo language and indeed most african languages are far complex. Even french and spanish are far complex than the english language.
Anybody can learn the english. That is why it is the most spoken on earth. It is easy to learn .