Among the Nigeria's three major languages, which do you think is the easiest to learn for a foreigner and which culture is most receptive and accommodating?
Sincere opinion poll. give reasons with examples base on encounter and experience.

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OP, just remove hausa from the list.

I have come across ibos and Yorubas speaking hausa as per jakin kano (figuratively, born and bred in kano), have never seen same the reverse for ibo & yoruba.

Even Southern corpers that served in the north can't attest to that, Hausa is the by far the easiest.

Don't know which is easiest but I was told that Igbo seemed to be the hardest....and this wasn't from an Igbo person who told me.
I certainly don't know though

Let's keep the discussion going.

Lalasticlala, Seun, Mynd44

It obviously won't be Igbo. Even I'm not as fluent as I should be.

I dont think there is Anything such as a Easy and Hard Language,just the zeal to Learn it

Reasons why people find Igbo hard is cos Many Igbo speak English or atleast pidgin English Fluently and not Willing to teach Another the Igbo langugae so There is no Need to learn the Language since you can easily Communicate with them in English or Broken unlike the Hausa Language where A lot dont Understand English so the Easiest way to Communicate with them is by Learning the Hausa Language and The Hausas are more than willing to Teach you their Language

Take Urhobo Language for Example,i have met Many Igbos born and Bred in Warri but dont Even know what is Come in Urhobo langugae because Urhobo People all speak Atleast Pidgin

I remember when i Decided to Learn Hausa because people was Saying itwas Easy,it was very difficult for me that i dropped the Idea of Learning it

agadez007:
I dont think there is Anything such as a Easy and Hard Language,just the zeal to Learn it

Reasons why people find Igbo hard is cos Many Igbo speak English or atleast pidgin English Fluently and not Willing to teach Another the Igbo langugae so There is no Need to learn the Language since you can easily Communicate with them in English or Broken unlike the Hausa Language where A lot dont Understand English so the Easiest way to Communicate with them is by Learning the Hausa Language and The Hausas are more than willing to Teach you their Language

Take Urhobo Language for Example,i have met Many Igbos born and Bred in Warri but dont Even know what is Come in Urhobo langugae because Urhobo People all speak Atleast Pidgin

I remember when i Decided to Learn Hausa because people was Saying itwas Easy,it was very difficult for me that i dropped the Idea of Learning it

Some languages are harder to learn than others though. Our intonation's not easy.

Probz:
Some languages are harder to learn than others though. Our intonation's not easy.

Is English Language Easy,to Some it is to Others its hard

do a Search on Youtube on MrGhanababy who speaks Chinese and he Hasnt been in China more than 4 years,Does that mean Chinese is Easy?

agadez007:
Is English Language Easy,to Some it is to Others its hard

do a Search on Youtube on MrGhanababy who speaks Chinese and he Hasnt been in China more than 4 years,Does that mean Chinese is Easy?

Drop this blind defence thing you've got going on. Everyone knows Igbo's a hard language to learn

Igbo is the hardest

Probz:
Drop this blind defence thing you've got going on. Everyone knows Igbo's a hard language to learn

Your Opinion
Everyone is Entitled to their opinion

Probz:
Drop this blind defence thing you've got going on. Everyone knows Igbo's a hard language to learn

Someone challenges you with superior argument and instead of you to tackle it, you're calling it blind defence. It's not enough to say that Igbo is harder than Hausa and Yoruba without giving concrete reasons. At least allow those that think contrary to air their opinions without suffocating them.

Afam4eva:

Someone challenges you with superior argument and instead of you to tackle it, you're calling it blind defence. It's not enough to say that Igbo is harder than Hausa and Yoruba without giving concrete reasons. At least allow those that think contrary to air their opinions without suffocating them.

"Igbo language is difficult because of the huge number of dialects, its richness in prefixes and suffixes and its heavy intonation."

I've said my own. I didn't know I was even being challenged by superior argument.

Probz:
"Igbo language is difficult because of the huge number of dialects, its richness in prefixes and suffixes and its heavy intonation."

I've said my own. I didn't know I was even being challenged by superior argument.

Whether superior or not respect people's opinion.

Now you have stated reasons why you think Igbo language is more difficult. One of which is because of the huge number of dialects. If i were to tell you that not only Igbo language has a huge number of dialect which is a valid argument, You'll tell me to forget it and just accept the fact that everyone knows that Igbo language is the hardest. Learn to look at things from other vantage points.

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depends on where you grew up

jotey:
depends on where you grew up

Exactly. They're comparing an Igbo person who learned Yoruba in Lagos to a Yoruba person who wants to learn Igbo from an Igbo person also in Lagos. If you want to learn Igbo effectively, go to Igboland.

I don't know why that 5th poster and some people are saying Hausa is so easy.
I didn't find it easy at all, and was always forgetting stuff when I tried to learn.
The reason people think its easy is because , when you go to live in Kano or Katsina for like 8 months or a year, you are almost constantly innundated by the mass of Hausa speakers around and before you know- you start unconsciously picking up stuff, unlike the south where it would also be common to hear some English or pidgin.
It actually isn't as easy.

I am a Niger-Congo man and I think Yoruba is easiest from what I have heard from others and from what I've seen. Then Igbo (although most times Igbos are not too eager about teaching their language to people or informing others of their culture, dunno why. Pronunciations are also more complex and sound very ethnic) then Hausa (which has the most geographical reach anf everyday use in the North, but can use a whole paragraph to describe a very simple event that won't even take 10 words in Yoruba). In that order.

That a language is very accessible doesn't mean it is easy.

Hausa is the easiest to learn, followed by yoruba, then igbo the hardest. Reason is the complication in intonation. Hausa is the easiest to learn, followed by yoruba, then igbo the hardest. Reason is the complication in intonation.

Afam4eva:

Someone challenges you with superior argument and instead of you to tackle it, you're calling it blind defence. It's not enough to say that Igbo is harder than Hausa and Yoruba without giving concrete reasons. At least allow those that think contrary to air their opinions without suffocating them.

Bless you

I speak both Igbo and Yoruba so its not as if I dont know what i am talking About here

ZaraGift:


Yea it's the zeal to learn, my grand mother read Igbo bible and other books freely like I read in English, she doesn't know the meaning of "come" or ''no", she doesn't understand any English word but read and right Igbo freely/easily

I find it amazing because it very difficult for me to do

how did she learn to Read without learning English first,is it Possible?

scholes0:
I don't know why that 5th poster and some people are saying Hausa is so easy.
I didn't find it easy at all, and was always forgetting stuff when I tried to learn.
The reason people think its easy is because , when you go to live in Kano or Katsina for like 8 months or a year, you are almost constantly innundated by the mass of Hausa speakers around and before you know- you start unconsciously picking up stuff, unlike the south where it would also be common to hear some English or pidgin.
It actually isn't as easy.

I am a Niger-Congo man and I think Yoruba is easiest from what I have heard from others and from what I've seen. Then Igbo (although most times Igbos are not too eager about teaching their language to people or informing others of their culture, dunno why. Pronunciations are also more complex and sound very ethnic) then Hausa (which has the most geographical reach anf everyday use in the North, but can use a whole paragraph to describe a very simple event that won't even take 10 words in Yoruba). In that order.

That a language is very accessible doesn't mean it is easy.

As humans especially as Nigerians, we're all ignorant as far as it relates to other groups that are not ours. On one hand you're saying Hausa is not te easiest just because it was not easy for you but turn around to say that Yoruba is the easiest without considering that is your native tongue. You also said Yoruba is easier because of popular opinion. If it's really based on popular opinion,then Hausa is the easiest, followed by Yoruba and then Igbo. But popular opinions should not be taken seriously as they're based on the convenience of those involved in the statistics.

Let me also fault your claim that Igbo is the hardest with your excuse that Igbo don't like teaching their language. I guess you mean Igbos that are based in Lagos or wherever you are. They should leave their jobs and start teaching you Igbo because that's what they came to lagos to do ba? Why not try learning Hausa or any other language the same way you're trying to learn Igbo and you'd see that it's the same result. The same goes for other languages that are not indegenous to a particular place.

Like i said, languages are perceived to be easier to learn due to the idiosyncrasies that are involved. For instance, in the North, Hausa is a lingua franca whereby that's the language of almost anything you can think of. It's almost like staying in France for one year and not picking up some basic french. It's true to a much lesser extent in the south-west where Yoruba along with English and Pidgin are almost neck to neck.

Wow

ZaraGift:



You don't need English to read and write another language. She only knew Igbo alphabets and pronounced every words in Igbo

thats unbelieveble

agadez007:
I dont think there is Anything such as a Easy and Hard Language,just the zeal to Learn it

Reasons why people find Igbo hard is cos Many Igbo speak English or atleast pidgin English Fluently and not Willing to teach Another the Igbo langugae so There is no Need to learn the Language since you can easily Communicate with them in English or Broken unlike the Hausa Language where A lot dont Understand English so the Easiest way to Communicate with them is by Learning the Hausa Language and The Hausas are more than willing to Teach you their Language

Take Urhobo Language for Example,i have met Many Igbos born and Bred in Warri but dont Even know what is Come in Urhobo langugae because Urhobo People all speak Atleast Pidgin

I remember when i Decided to Learn Hausa because people was Saying itwas Easy,it was very difficult for me that i dropped the Idea of Learning it

Over correct

Probz:
Drop this blind defence thing you've got going on. Everyone knows Igbo's a hard language to learn

That's not true. No language is difficult to learn it all boils down to the individual learning it.

Afam4eva:

Exactly. They're comparing an Igbo person who learned Yoruba in Lagos to a Yoruba person who wants to learn Igbo from an Igbo person also in Lagos. If you want to learn Igbo effectively, go to Igboland.

Exactly. Why do you most persons learn Yoruba faster is because they of the environment they live. If in an environment you have more speakers of a language,it will influence you to a large extend

asuustrike2009:

That's not true. No language is difficult to learn it all boils down to the individual learning it.

Okay, keep thinking that way.