Igbos That Cannot Speak Igbo Language

If he learns igbo it will be better for all of us Igbos and not just him, i wonder how some people think and i am disappointed in this girl

am in da mission of learning how 2 read and write, da process of trying them gives me unwanted headache

Ify no enter that side.

No comment.
My happiness is that you don't know me from Adam, and I don't even have a clue who the heck YOU are. So, really, your comments can't really mean shyt to me unless I of course decide it will.

May Amadioha guide you my son iseeeeeeeeeeee

              the same thing applicable to me.

I can't speak igbo. Circumstances beyond my control. As long as you can communicate in something , then you are good.

It's people like prince_onx that prevent many Igbos from learning the language. In his supreme ignorance and distasteful arrogance, he's more willing to scold the OP like an errant child, and less willing to give suggestions on techniques, audio CDs, literature, etc. to help the OP in learning Igbo.

Many Igbos are not encouraged to learn the language because of the attitude of those who are supposed to help them learn.

Yes, many (not all) Igbos born in Lagos, and some other parts of the country are not fluent speakers of the language for many reasons:

1. Immersed in a society where Igbo is rarely spoken.

2. The pogrom directed at Igbos in the mid 1960s and the following civil war, made many Igbo parents (though few will readily admit this) living outside Igboland, but within Nigeria, apprehensive about the safety of their children from the stand-point of being easily identified as Igbo. The fear then, in the early 1970s, was palpable especially since many Igbos did not fully trust that the state (Nigeria) can protect them even after the civil war. The thinking was that "if it happened before, it can happen again". However, for economic reasons many Igbos still had to settle outside Igbo land. The consequence of all these was that many Igbo parents living outside Igbo land, but within Nigeria, thought it wise to play down the Igbo identity of their children for fear that it may make the difference between life and death in a lawless Nigeria. But ignorant, arrogant, "I sabi speak Igbo pass everybody", characters like prince_onx are unable to appreciate the state of mind of the Igbo parents raising kids outside Igboland, and who had just come out of a politically induced pogrom, religiously catalyzed massacres, and a brutal quasi-genocidal civil war.

3. The likes of prince_onx, either laughing at those trying to learn or shouting "there is no excuse!"

Is there really an argument that one that claims any culture ought to speak the language? Parents can be ignorant and misguided but that does not excuse the shortcoming.  And those arguing to the contrary, that's just sad. There are some issues that either a young or feeble mind will not comprehend.

No more in da house?

It's a big shame to have kids raised in Nigeria of Igbo parents that can't speak Igbo.
Many of parents who did this thought they were being "oyibo"
I remember hearing some say
My kids don't speak Igbo
I'm talking kids raised in Ajegunle and Akowonjo
what an outrage.

There are even more pathetic cases.
Little kids of Igbo parents who don't speak Igbo and don't speak proper English either.
Now that's what I call sorry.

They'll come home for Christmas and the older people will be talking with them and their mom will say
"Junior doesn't hear Ibo o"
and people will say,what's your name and what class are you doing now?
junior will say,my name na junior,I dey elementary 4

kids in Okija primary won't even speak like that

Smile4ken, makes 2 of us jare. Lets console each other. 
All my uncles and aunts plus my mum gather and start speaking igbo while we look on in envy. All my mum says is "well i tried to teach you" . . . does the occassional nmirri oku qualify as teaching igbo?

Y'all that can speak shouldn't be disheartened at all. I understand how it feels_{I'm learning french}. But believe me, you've got the cultural advantage in that it's your language, it's already in your blood waiting to be resurrected. If you're still with your parents, initiate a language lesson with them and stick to it. Speak it, no matter how bad, and with time, you'll pick up.

Our people hold that

Aka aja aja na-ebuta onu mmanu mmanu
Soiled hands leads to oily mouth

_{means there is always reward for an effort}

More Wetin? *Batting eyelashes*

I got another story, Y'all know that I prefer to call nollywood, ibowood because 99% of the movies they dish out  centers around the ibo culture and the soundtracks are always ibo. There is this lagosian ibo girl in DC who can neither speak both ibo and yoruba  nor  understand them according to her but anytime we watch ibowwod movies together, she explains every little ibo  sentence to me in those movies. I was forced to ask her one day, how come you can neither speak nor undertsand but can interpret what goes on here especially the ibo soundtracks. Don't mind them jo, this na just effizy.

You speak beta igbo than others because  u were given the opportunity to learn by your parents. If in d house u don`t communicate in igbo i don't see hw u will learn. I was born and brought up in cameroon. In d house my parents communicate to us  in igbo and that was d only way i got a rudimentary knwoledge of the language. At a time, bc of my poor knwoledge of d language, if my father talks 2 me in igbo i reply in english. He told me he will never take that from me any longer that i shld always talk 2 him in igbo. I made efforts to learn how 2 speak igbo.
So i think its more about parental influence than where u were born.