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Please..will Someone (anyone) Translate This Pidgin English For Me?? by EnuguMan(m): 10:47pm On Jul 24, 2012
Zikky shebi u don see! Now u don dey talk like dis! Ok u wan make mi feel guilty baaa? No bi u find my mouth? Oya no vex.u knw say na (njakilri)!abeg leave yemi! He will not stand for u oooooo!!! Yemi! Abeg jump and pass joor!!!!

palala,u knw say u be my paddy i no go do u bad tin and 4 dat ofe mmanu boy i 4 yabu him bt the tin be say na 4 their side i dey hustle cos if i talk he fit call boko boyz to come bomb my warehouse .. ofeke omalo na ekee nku ukwa.
Re: Please..will Someone (anyone) Translate This Pidgin English For Me?? by StarFlux: 2:20am On Jul 29, 2012
My pidgin is very limited, but I will try my best.

Zikky, agree that you have seen. Now you have been talking like this/ talk behind back. Ok, you want to make me feel guilty, isn't it so? Can't you find my mouth/make me talk? Now don't get angry/upset. You know that it is (njakilri, no idea what this means). Please, stay away from Yemi. He will not be on your side. Yemi! Please, get over it/go away/overcome. (Not sure exactly what jump and pass means). Jor is an expression of despair I think.

Palala (name I think), you know that you are my friend, I will not do anything bad to you (and for that ofe mmanu boy i 4 yaby him) but the thing is, I'm hustling/stealing from their side. If I talk, he will call boko boyz to come bomb my warehouse. (The rest looks like Igbo).

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. I saw that you didn't get any replies so I jumped in. At least you can get an idea what it means.
Re: Please..will Someone (anyone) Translate This Pidgin English For Me?? by ifyalways(f): 10:02am On Jul 29, 2012
Zikky I hope you've seen(what you've caused)now you are talking like this(like you never engineered/encouraged/started this).ok,you want to make mr feel guilty right?were you not the one that started this(started abusing me)please don't be angry.you know I was only pulling your legs/fooling around with you.please leave yemi!he won't be there for you(when the chips are down)yemi!forget him please!!!

Palala,you know you are my friend and I can't hurt you and as for that Yoruba boy,I could have insulted him but my restraint is that I hustle in their place so if I talk he might arrange with Boko harAm and bomb my warehouse.
Ofeke amalo Na eke nku ukwa(a proverb)
It's only but a fool that uses the breadfruit sticks as firewood(literal)
It's only but a fool that fights a war that he won't gain a thing.(meaning)
Ofeke amalo Na eke nku ukwa. . the breadfruit sticks don't burn when used as firewood but it's very heavy so it's only a fool that would waste his time gathering and bringing it home for use as firewood.
Re: Please..will Someone (anyone) Translate This Pidgin English For Me?? by EnuguMan(m): 9:17pm On Jul 29, 2012
Thank you soo much you guys for helping me to understand this pidgin english. I have travel to Nigeria twice now and my thirst to understand the Igbo and pidgin english is growing by leaps and bounds. I so wish there was books I could here here in the US that will help me to learn Igbo and pidgin english.
Re: Please..will Someone (anyone) Translate This Pidgin English For Me?? by Nobody: 12:00am On Jul 30, 2012
observes OP's screen name and then reads his claim of not understanding pidgin...

*laughs*
Re: Please..will Someone (anyone) Translate This Pidgin English For Me?? by EnuguMan(m): 12:24am On Jul 30, 2012
MsDarkSkin, what difference does my screen name or understanding of pidgin make to you? ...and why are you writing this on my post? I never said I was from Enugu...my screen name is just that...a screen name!! So please, if you don't have something positive to contribute..please keep your comments to yourself. Thanks!
Re: Please..will Someone (anyone) Translate This Pidgin English For Me?? by StarFlux: 6:06pm On Jul 30, 2012
EnuguMan: MsDarkSkin, what difference does my screen name or understanding of pidgin make to you? ...and why are you writing this on my post? I never said I was from Enugu...my screen name is just that...a screen name!! So please, if you don't have something positive to contribute..please keep your comments to yourself. Thanks!
Don't think too much about it.

If you want to pick up pidgin fast, I suggest surrounding you with people speaking it. It shouldn't be too hard for you as you already understand English.

Amazon.com offers several books about Nigerian pidgin:
http://www.amazon.com/Nigerian-Pidgin-Background-Prospects-Elugbe/dp/9781291737/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1343667155&sr=8-5&keywords=Nigerian+pidgin

Here you can see search results for Nigerian pidgin for yourself:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Nigerian+pidgin&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ANigerian+pidgin
https://www.google.com/search?q=nigerian+pidgin&btnG=S%C3%B8k+i+b%C3%B8ker&tbm=bks&tbo=1&hl=no (List from Google Books)

THere are also internet sources to consider:
http://naijalingo.com/
http://www.onlinenigeria.com/pidgin/ (this site contains a lot of vocabulary, but it is very slow).
http://www.transparent.com/learn-pidgin-english/overview.html
http://www.digitalniyi.com/slangsofnaija/learn-anp.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/65726745/Nigerian-Pidgin-English-learn-To-Speak-Pidgin-English-Fast (Online book)

The sentence structure/grammar is more similar to other Nigerian languages, so learning pidgin will actually be a bit of help if you plan on learning Igbo.

For Igbo you have:
http://www.amazon.com/Igbo-Beginners-Joyce-Okwumo/dp/0615293352/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1343667575&sr=8-4&keywords=igbo
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Course-Foreign-Service-Institute/dp/0884326071/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1343667575&sr=8-8&keywords=igbo (Basic course)
http://www.amazon.com/Igbo-English-English-Igbo-Dictionary-Phrasebook-Hippocrene/dp/0781806615/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343667575&sr=8-1&keywords=igbo (Dictionary)
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-IGBO-ebook/dp/B0050Z3D3G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343694094&sr=1-1&keywords=teach+yourself+igbo (If you have Kindle)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Igbo&btnG=S%C3%B8k+i+b%C3%B8ker&tbm=bks&tbo=1&hl=com (List from Google Books)

Igbo on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QWo8IJ10c

Here you can see the available Igbo material from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=igbo

Software for learning Igbo: http://2speaklanguages.com/learn-igbo/

There are also internet sources:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/igbo.htm
http://learnigbo.com/
http://www.igbofocus.co.uk/html/learn_igbo.html
http://ilc.igbonet.com/
http://www.igbo911.com/
http://www.umuigbo.com./

More pidgin:
http://www.amazon.com/Nigerian-Pidgin-Descriptive-Grammars-Faraclas/dp/0415022916/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1343693461&sr=8-7&keywords=Nigerian+pidgin (I have no idea why it's so expensive).
http://www.amazon.com/Nigerian-Pidgin-Lagos-Language-variation/dp/1903292107/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1343693461&sr=8-16&keywords=Nigerian+pidgin

I am sure there is more material for you out there, just keep googling and searching. I cannot however, speak for the quality of the items linked.
Good luck on your journey!
Re: Please..will Someone (anyone) Translate This Pidgin English For Me?? by EnuguMan(m): 9:04pm On Jul 30, 2012
StarFlux, this is such a wealth of information. Thank you soo much!! I am eternally grateful to you!
Re: Please..will Someone (anyone) Translate This Pidgin English For Me?? by StarFlux: 1:32am On Jul 31, 2012
EnuguMan: StarFlux, this is such a wealth of information. Thank you soo much!! I am eternally grateful to you!
It's no problem! The learning material available in pidgin is a bit limited, but you can learn a lot by just reading these forums, and if there's something you don't understand, you try look up the words either with one of the links I provided or elsewhere. If you are going back to Nigeria at some point, I would also recommend looking for books there. Available material outside of Nigeria is very limited.

It's always nice to see people wanting to learn a new language. Even in Nigeria, some parents don't teach their kids their language. So people like you can make them open their eyes. Rich culture which you find in Nigeria is nothing to be ashamed of.

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