mama-gee:

Should this be an issue?.

douecho:

You don see any American wey de talk like Nigerian after 3 years in Nigeria? Or Ghanian wey de spree after 3 years in london (or even Nigeria)?

Free your mind ~ I have friends who are not nigerians and who have never been to nigeria but they speak with Nigerian accent and speak pidgin complete with intonation and exclamation eh?! heh!? If you heard them from behind a door, you wouldn't know that they are not nigerians.

douecho:

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed that many Nigerians suddenly cant remember how to speak like Nigerians even if they only spent 2days abroad. Even if the accent they put on is heavily laced with their native accent, they still talk as if they were never in Nigeria?

My own is, If you must spree, make it convincing enough, don't now mix thick yoruba, Igbo or bini accent with American, scottish or English! There's absolutely no way you can tell me that an accent that took you about 20years of your life to develop can suddenly disappear within a few weeks (or even a year) abroad.

There is an old thread about this somewhere.  .  .got it

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-54330.0.html

It's a couple of things really, sometimes people want to be understood by other people who don't understand our accent.  Sometimes it's trying to fit in.  .  .sometimes it's their impression that they've become janded not local

I get amused, when someone speaks it to me, knowing full well that I am Nigerian as he/she is.  Or has trouble speaking it, and all i hear is Rrrr all over the place or mispronouncing words.  .  .

iice:

Free your mind ~ I have friends who are not nigerians and who have never been to nigeria but they speak with Nigerian accent and speak pidgin complete with intonation and exclamation eh?! heh!? If you heard them from behind a door, you wouldn't know that they are not nigerians.

There is an old thread about this somewhere.  .  .got it

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-54330.0.html

It's a couple of things really, sometimes people want to be understood by other people who don't understand our accent.  Sometimes it's trying to fit in.  .  .sometimes it's their impression that they've become janded not local

I get amused, when someone speaks it to me, knowing full well that I am Nigerian as he/she is.  Or has trouble speaking it, and all i hear is Rrrr all over the place or mispronouncing words.  .  .

tunnytox:

I don't think anyone can simply lost their Nigerian accent after living abroad but the fact remains that you'll pick some few words, culture and attitudes from your host country there's no doubt about that except for some very rigid Nigerians who will never change and who will never eat anything except EBA and agege bread For instance if you live in the UK and interact with people you'll pick some of their words like hiya, init, etc you may also find it so easy to say PLEASE at all times this is not a complete change in accent but a change in pronounciation of certan words. A lot of Nigerians here in the NW England will pronounce Bolton just like the English people rather than the usual Nigerian way.

However, we cannot rule out some Nigerians who might want to ''buga'' other people with their new found accent

tunnytox:

I don't think anyone can simply lost their Nigerian accent after living abroad but the fact remains that you'll pick some few words, culture and attitudes from your host country there's no doubt about that except for some very rigid Nigerians who will never change and who will never eat anything except EBA and agege bread    For instance if you live in the UK and interact with people you'll pick some of their words like hiya, init, etc you may also find it so easy to say PLEASE at all times this is not a complete change in accent but a change in pronounciation of certan words. A lot of Nigerians here in the NW England will pronounce Bolton just like the English people rather than the usual Nigerian way.

However, we cannot rule out some Nigerians who might want to ''buga'' other people with their new found accent

ikeyman00:



damn we get wahala ooooo, na true obama talk walahi

Koolstan:

Methink some speak through the nose just to belong.

debosky:

Depends on the motive - some just want to 'fit in' in their new environment, while some are just making fools of themselves.

There is nothing wrong with 'adopting' a manner of speaking similar to where you live - if it helps you to be understood better.

The hard bit is when some try too hard and end up being even more difficult to understand than when they spoke with their basic accent.