I am from south-east so there's no deal speaking both native and foreign language afterall I was taught both in school, NDEWO Nü

I speak and write my language fluently, am sure my children are going to do so.

I can speak n write yoruba n Hausa basic level and i understand little Nupe

I don't speak English with any Nigerian accents but i don't see anything wrong in it.

what is wrong in accents?, Spanish, German, Italian, etc speaks English with there accents

Ojumiii:

I can speak n write yoruba n Hausa basic level and i understand little Nupe

I don't speak English with any Nigerian accents but i don't see anything wrong in it.

what is wrong in accents?, Spanish, German, Italian, etc speaks English with there accents

It's either you dont speak yoruba/hausa fluently or you speak English without accent.

I think it's highly impossible to speak english without accent and yoruba fluently. No be oyibo yoruba you dey speak?

Tcrack:

i speak yoruba like every other lagosian.
the truth is, i have never seen any yoruba man speaking yoruba only. we always tend to add one english word or another. even the illitrates who cant speak english do this too .same applys for the ibos.  dont know much about hausas.

E ma wo bobo yi sha, Mo le so lai fi ede geesi si. maa bo ladugbo mi ko wa wo bo sen lo.

Mo le so, ko ati ka yoruba dada _meaning I[b] can speak, write and read yoruba fluently. [/b]

moneyp:

E ma wo bobo yi sha, Mo le so lai fi ede geesi si. maa bo ladugbo mi ko wa wo bo [b]sen [/b]lo.

"k'owa" or "ki o wa"



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I do speak Yoruba very well as a typical Ibadan boy. Most of my yoruba prayers get answered more sef.

denzel2009:

I do speak Yoruba very well as a typical Ibadan boy. Most of my yoruba prayers get answered more sef.

Se o ko moh pe Yoruba ni ede Olorun?

Anam asu igbo very good,  

FL Gators:

Se o ko moh pe Yoruba ni ede Olorun?

Mo fe mo pa ni. I dont really have the conviction that the prayer is effective in English.

i can even sing with my language

TO speak igbo na war for me, I hear but speak 25%,

DOnt know who to blame . Cant blame my parents cos they speak igbo to me all the time. I think I would blame warri. I have never seen anybody who grew up in warri that can speak his/her language fluently na so so pdigin dem dey scatter for AREA.

Don't mind them, for me, I speak fluently in me native language

so well, i should write a book on it.

i speak my language very fluently and i also speak hausa really well.

i speak native language on the basic level, write it just ok, read it real bad

moneyp:

E ma wo bobo yi sha, Mo le so lai fi ede geesi si. maa bo ladugbo mi ko wa wo bo sen lo.

se o wa pa iro ni? most lagosians tend to speak diluted version of yoruba. only recently did i find out that padlock was agadangodo (i'm not even sure i spelled it right sef )

Then spare a thought for those raising kids in diaspora if kids growing up at home cannot speak mother tongue.

It is a big challenge trying to teach kids native tongue.  Back in the day, we were given strokes of the cane for daring to speak VANERCULAR at school. That's how efficient oyinbo brainwashing was even after on-paper-independence.

Ordinarily noisy boys would suddenly become as quite as deaf and dumb because they couldn't muster a lot in English!!
I am always perplexed when you call home, kids pick phone, you are talking to them in native tongue and they r replying in English. Terrible.

Somebody once mentioned here on NL that if you cannot do science & technology in ur native tongue, a country can hardly succeed in technology.

Does any know what LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY is called in their mother tongue?

I speak and write Yoruba as fluently as my English

Onweghi ihe m na agaghi eji Igbo ekwu ma dee, isi na obu asi ikuchara m ka anyi nwa.

I can't speak the Ishan language fluently

as an Igbo man ,who grew up in igbo land, i attended Assemblies of God Church where we used igbo language in the sunday school and it helped me in speaking and writing  Igbo language. right now i based abroad and my kids are with me over here i always try to teach them igbo language as to enable them to communicate with my people once we return home.

marabout:

Then spare a thought for those raising kids in diaspora if kids growing up at home cannot speak mother tongue.

It is a big challenge trying to teach kids native tongue.  Back in the day, we were given strokes of the cane for daring to speak VANERCULAR at school. That's how efficient oyinbo brainwashing was even after on-paper-independence.

Ordinarily noisy boys would suddenly become as quite as deaf and dumb because they couldn't muster a lot in English!!
I am always perplexed when you call home, kids pick phone, you are talking to them in native tongue and they r replying in English. Terrible.

Somebody once mentioned here on NL that if you cannot do science & technology in your native tongue, a country can hardly succeed in technology.

Does any know what LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY is called in their mother tongue?

In a country with an estimated 250 tribes and over 400 languages, how will kids communicate with each other, and how will the teacher teach the students effectively, if each child is allowed to speak vernacular in school? Please respond objectively, without any personal attacks.

My Igbo and Yoruba are just above average.

very fluently

i can even do incantations in yoruba

ive seen all yoruba home videos and oh yeah, ive learnt all vocabs

marabout:

Then spare a thought for those raising kids in diaspora if kids growing up at home cannot speak mother tongue.

It is a big challenge trying to teach kids native tongue.  Back in the day, we were given strokes of the cane for daring to speak VANERCULAR at school. That's how efficient oyinbo brainwashing was even after on-paper-independence.

Ordinarily noisy boys would suddenly become as quite as deaf and dumb because they couldn't muster a lot in English!!
I am always perplexed when you call home, kids pick phone, you are talking to them in native tongue and they r replying in English. Terrible.

Somebody once mentioned here on NL that if you cannot do science & technology in your native tongue, a country can hardly succeed in technology.

Does any know what LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY is called in their mother tongue?

I bet no one here can translate that in a local language.

Countries like Germany, Russia, Japan, China, France etc are able to compete with U.S, U.K because with their local languages, there is in-depth understanding of what is being taught from generation to generation. But in Nigeria, with over 400 languages! May God help us.

tkb417:

i can even do incantations in yoruba

ive seen all yoruba home videos and oh yeah, ive learnt all vocabs

Are you a babalawo?

I can speak and write Igbo very well, what a good and so simple language in the world?

UMU IGBO KWENU! CHUKWU BU IKE ANYI

I speak and write my native language very well. but na dat one i go take collect money from bank?

Princek12:

Are you a babalawo?

no sir

im just trying to emphasize how fluent i am with my lang