Irrespective of where you are-Will u consider your children learning or the ability to speak your  native language something that is worth it and valuable?

Yes as long as they don't ask me to teach them, i'll probably take them to granma' there they can learn respect,helping the elderly, how to cook and the language 

@loverbwoy

u dont want to go thru the stess of teaching them urself .

Nah its too much hassle plus i dont understand every bit of the language myself plus they'll be getting Value Added lessons

I never teach myself finish!!

English, the language of science and the Internet, is what they need to learn. Any other language is just a bonus.

My 1st son speak my Lang & his Fathers so well
2nd tries

Yep, My fiance is Yoruba n Im not,so I'll teach dem my lang,since I speak fluently,while their dad can speak what he pleases to them, Gbam.

Hmm, yep, thought about this so many times! Of course I'd love my children to learn my language but timing is everything. You can't confuse a baby with 3 languages (my own, my husband's and English) so I'd first teach them English, then, as they grow up a little, start speaking Romanian to them, their daddy will be speaking igbo to them so fortunately they'll catch it all

_{but first it's me and my hubby that'd learn the other one's language! oups}

Nkem & Who Told U--Ugo is Going 2 Marry U?

jaybaby:

Nkem & Who Told U--Ugo is Going 2 Marry U?

Now you just take a wild guess my dear!

jaybaby

lmao , thank you

Sisimose Y r u Thanking Me

Abi na U b NKEM?

hw u no go teach ur pikin language plus cilture?/ u av to

Ki lon so?

jaybaby:

Nkem & Who Told U--Ugo is Going 2 Marry U?

jay baby
the above is why i said thank you, keep up girly , ah abi u never chop?

ki lo ri? jaybaby!

@jaybaby & sisimose

how does my relationship with Daniel concern you? please, stick to the topic and mind your own!

lol lmao abeg no vex oh the thing no concern me at all , but e still funny to me, abi make i no laff again? shooo!!

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lalaboi lo sun

i teach them my language only b/c i know some stupid ass yoruba ppl will want to talk shit to my kid and my child must defend themselves

ofcourse, datz one of da reasons i aint leaving ma tribe, lol

What a question!

I am most definitely going to teach my child how to speak, read and write my own Naija language. I will teach him or her as much as I can of my culture, and that of the person I end up getting married to, eventually. It is compulsory and mandatory.

i'll teach them pidgin besides english because, that is all i know. however i'll let my parents teach them igbo. i refuse to let my child go about life without learning his african heritage.

I guess I'll teach him Yoruba because it's required in the WASSCE exams. That's really a sad waste of their lives.

i grew up in nigeria and i never got taught how to speak my native tounge, it kinda gets me down when people speak around me knowing full when i dont understand a word their saying, i mean what use is it speakin french and german without my own native tongue, i'll be taking my kids to family members to learn it, cuz they're not gonna get nothing from me lol

@ topic

actually, kids learn very fast, faster than 10 adults put together, yes ooh!

when a kid is small, don't bother about him learning 5languages at the same time, he's capable. And you don't even have to sit him down and teach him, he just takes it in

pls allow me tell two stories:

no.1
i have some cousins that were born here in Norway, and have lived here all their lives. Been on vaccation in naija like twice. The first girl is 18.
all the three kids understand everything in igbo, and not that they were thought, but their parents spoke the language wihile they grew up,and authomatically they picked it up

no. 2
i have a friend here. The sister is a Camerounian, married to a Nigerian. and they have two kids. The first girl, is 2,5 yrs old. Most of the people that come around her are from the mum's family, so she speaks very good camerounian. The dad tells her things in igbo, and believe it or not, she understands almost everything in igbo (though she can't speak)

in a nut shell what i'm trying to say is, don't worry about teaching your kid your language, speak it to him/her during growth, she'll grow up speaking it

one thing with you parents's yall gotta send your children to naija evry summer.

Seun:

I guess I'll teach him Yoruba because it's required in the WASSCE exams. That's really a sad waste of their lives.

omogenaija:

i teach them my language only b/c i know some stupid ass yoruba people will want to talk shit to my kid and my child must defend themselves

Ehn? Why this resentment towards the language? Had to learn it in high school and even though it wasn't by choice, it was well worth the hassle. We all ended up discovering that it is a rich, lyrical, rhythmic, poetic language with a lot of loaded wisdom and depth. The student who won the first prize in Yoruba, in my final year in school was an Igbo girl, who grew up in the South-west just like I did. For a lot of non-Yoruba speakers, it was a good education. We learnt about the customs, mode of greeting, lifestyle, cosmology, proverbs, idioms, world-view, oriki, philosophical thoughts etc. of the culture.

Wouldn't trade it for anything. Looking back now, it was time well-spent!

Definitely YES

mine speaks my language well well,cos i tot them