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What Languages Do You Speak? by vickybabe(f): 6:24pm On Mar 02, 2006
How Many Languages Do You Speak?  Lets see.  As  for me:
yoruba
english
french
spanish
hausa
pidgen english----------- messing with the akata's and the oyibo's

what's your's
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by BarryBoy1: 6:33pm On Mar 02, 2006
what will u use all this language for? for fraud or sike all the men in ur place? As for me no way English is ok 4 me grin
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by whitelexi(m): 7:31pm On Mar 02, 2006
I'm a true Nigerian, I speak hausa, yoruba, ibo, and pidgen english, english and even swahili may u walk grin
In English we say: Why woman? hausa: kai haba yarinya? ibo: nne maka why kwanu? in yoruba: ha obinrin l'ori kini? and in swahili, we drink: holy water or aromatic aromatisms grin
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Iknowwhoim(m): 8:18pm On Mar 02, 2006
@ vickybabe
Moi, jai parle francais, englais, yoruba, un petit ibo.
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by smartsoft(m): 8:21pm On Mar 02, 2006
well folks i do speak english,French,Yoruba,ibo,hausa,spanish,jamaican english
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by vickybabe(f): 9:03pm On Mar 02, 2006
Barry Boy:

what will u use all this language for? for fraud or sike all the men in your place? As for me no way English is ok 4 me grin


well i use them for ( ahh thats rights fraud)lol, especially spanish they think becos am black i dont know what they are saying, so i act like i dont understand********* but when i reply them they will go "habla hispanol"
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by vickybabe(f): 9:04pm On Mar 02, 2006
Iknowwhoim:

@ vickybabe
Moi, jai parle francais, englais, yoruba, un petit ibo.

tres bien
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Hotstepper(f): 10:14pm On Mar 02, 2006
@whitelexi, why is "why" in da igbo part tongue, ahaha

i know igbo( not really perfect) and English, hipefully learn french since am not good at languages
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by IAH(f): 10:21pm On Mar 02, 2006
I speak many languages, they are:

Yoruba, English, Pidgin English, Yoruenglish, Engliyoru, Yorupidgin, Englipidgin.
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by babwilms(m): 10:31pm On Mar 02, 2006
I speak Yoruba, English and French, but i'm also trying to speak pidgen english but i do understand it when spoken to me
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by victoria1(f): 11:03pm On Mar 02, 2006
mandinka, native tongue
wolof, neighbors tongue
english, universal language
spanish, foreign language im learning in high school
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by vickybabe(f): 11:37pm On Mar 02, 2006
@ IAH
cheesy cheesy  cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by idiotboop(f): 3:26pm On Mar 03, 2006
@ iah cheesy

The funny thing is your list does exist, i have heard them lol
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Liz(f): 4:43pm On Mar 03, 2006
Hi does anyone know any free online self learn course for the Ibo language preferrably with audio?
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Rhodalyn(f): 7:22pm On Mar 03, 2006
english
twi
french[a bit]
spanish[just some few greetings] tongue
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Outkast(f): 7:38pm On Mar 03, 2006
Spanish(do noone to converse with,comes in handy)
Benin
Yoruba
Pidgin
and learning Igbo
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by kimba(m): 7:41pm On Mar 03, 2006
English, Yoruba, Spanish, Nihongo(Japanese)
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by omogenaija(f): 7:46pm On Mar 03, 2006
i speak english, yoruba, and eboniczzzzzzzz
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Outkast(f): 7:47pm On Mar 03, 2006
omoge02863:

i speak english, yoruba, and eboniczzzzzzzz
lol abi jo, that's another 1
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Z4M4eva(f): 8:57pm On Mar 03, 2006
English
Yoruba
Pidgin
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Rolly: 9:55pm On Mar 03, 2006
i speak

Yoruba, normal english, pidgin english, jamacian english, ebonics
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Z4M4eva(f): 9:56pm On Mar 03, 2006
I love da Jamaican accent, so Posh!!!
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by panthress(f): 9:57pm On Mar 03, 2006
well for me i speak
igbo- native language
hausa- i shld be able to pick thatup again when i go to nigeria
francais- yup i do alot
pidgin- wht would my life be without broken english
lets see i understand jamaican patua-wagwan cld speak it if i wanted to.
sierra leone krio- is not far from pidgin so its safe to say everyone that speaks pidgin in nigeria shld understand it#
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by IAH(f): 10:06pm On Mar 03, 2006
bettyboop:

@ iah cheesy

The funny thing is your list does exist, i have heard them cheesy

Of course, it exists! And I speak them all. cheesy
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Shadiat(f): 11:10pm On Mar 03, 2006
Yoruba, Egba Dialect, English, Spanish ( a lil), And some straight up SOuthside Language, My people from the south u namtalkinbout---
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by Dauda(m): 4:14am On Mar 04, 2006
English, french, spanish, spanglish, yoruba, ibo, hausa (lil) ijebu, swahili, portuguese.
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by nellygurl(f): 6:16am On Mar 04, 2006
i speak
yoruba-------native language
fante/twi -----Ghana language
ofcourse pegin
patua-----ya dunno. me cant do without it
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by otokx(m): 11:18am On Mar 04, 2006
English
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by otokx(m): 11:21am On Mar 04, 2006
I can also speak in tongues shocked
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by IBBFan(m): 12:30am On Mar 05, 2006
otokx, tobra?

English- slavery language
Pidgin- official nigerian language
Yoruba- my future wife's language
Hausa- my aboki's language
Ibo- that Asaba girl's language
Calabar- my sista's friend's language
Idoma- my father's best friend's wife's language
Kalabari- my father's language
Bini- my last girlfriend's language
Igbakin- my mother's language
Patua- my ganja-breed friend's language
Zulu- Amaka's language


i don try for this my life, no be small. and i aint even started yet!!
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by ocho(f): 3:55am On Mar 05, 2006
@IBB, kai!!!!! shocked
i speak
English
Hausa
Igbo
Pidgin.
Re: What Languages Do You Speak? by IBBFan(m): 8:56am On Mar 05, 2006
even ocho knows i speak french. she's beean learning from me for some days now

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