TUTU147:
Me and my wife use our native language igbo,but my children want to start speaking urhobo for us.Anyway,I love the fact that my children can understand my language and also communicate in any language outside my language.We are nigerians and we should promote the language of our host, urhobo waboooo.

Lovely.

I am assuming you are raising them in Urhobo land.

It is important a child can speak in the dominant language of the place they are being raised, while also being able to communicate in the tongue of their heritage.

Igbo

No long cap 🧢

AbujaLagos:
Yoruba
Hausa
Ebira
&
A touch of Igbo.

Na we be wazobia family

Wow!

Explain. How come?

Oizee:
lol@face looking happy while her eyes would be angry.

Don't mind that my boy, the older one understand these signs very well but my second hmmm

hahaha, I knew he must be the second child, they have a mind of their own, he understands o, he's just playing dumb

cutecommend:
What language does members of your family speak often to each other?

(a) Pidgin English
(b) Polished English language
(c) Your Tribal language.
(d) Sign language

etc.

Ajebo

FuckingMachine:
Sign language


Popsy stares at you, you coordinate.
Momsy stares at you, you shut up.
Sister stares at you, you return the remote.
Brother stares at you, you leave the room for he & gf.

isi ka umunne maalu onwe fa ji a kpa nkata na mba. Iku anya ka fa ji agwa onwe fa okwu na mba. Fancha ka ana si atualu omalu omalu, atualu ofeke ofekelu baa ohia

Gamesmart:


Wow!

Explain. How come?

papa Yoruba
Papa mama Hausa
My mother Ebira
Mother mama Igbo.

YORUBA

Oizee:
wow, you received ur training well.
The day I gave my son some signs while we were in someone's house, he embarrassed me o, he said "mummy why are you doing your eyes like that and are u telling me to shut up?"

I kept cool until we got home to discipline him.

Omo I no fit laff
He no understand Na 😂😂😂😂

cutecommend:
What language does members of your family speak often to each other?

(a) Pidgin English
(b) Polished English language
(c) Your Tribal language.
(d) Sign language

etc.

I doesn't understand why una will be ask such a questions.

In our house is only b

And we use to use only original kiwi polish

cutecommend:
What language does members of your family speak often to each other?

(a) Pidgin English
(b) Polished English language
(c) Your Tribal language.
(d) Sign language

etc.

Chinese wu

Ok... Sorry.

GO0DHardDick:


Stop typing rubbish here. This is a Nigerian forum not your slave black South Africa forum

Gamesmart:


Nice.

I am assuming you are of Yoruba heritage then?

Yes.

Yoruba.

AbujaLagos:
papa Yoruba
Papa mama Hausa
My mother Ebira
Mother mama Igbo.

This is complicated

lmao...funniest thread 2dai

Oizee:
wow, you received ur training well.
The day I gave my son some signs while we were in someone's house, he embarrassed me o, he said "mummy why are you doing your eyes like that and are u telling me to shut up?"

I kept cool until we got home to discipline him.

Oh my gosh.... lil children could be funny at times joor

My native language for sure

Focusmind:
English!

But I am trying hard to make my kids understand the Igbo language. I just couldn't wrap my mind on how I missed that important part of their social and native language ability. Sadly, the private school system in Lagos is making it harder for pupils to understand and speak their mother tongue. I am always excited when I see "Gen Z" kids speak their native language with their parents. I just don't know the obsession of speaking English to our kids. My parents never spoke English to us while we were growing up but I can challenge any native speaker of the language in English language. Sad that I wasn't much around during my kids earlier years, I would have started speaking Igbo to them at that time.

Carry your kids to go school in the East.

cutecommend:
What language does members of your family speak often to each other?

(a) Pidgin English
(b) Polished English language
(c) Your Tribal language.
(d) Sign language

etc.

ebira

Samantha124:
Ok... Sorry.

Bbay, y did u apologise now?
U have right to be here, it is your data.
We need the cultural exchange and love.
Black people need to stop hating.

We communicated entirely in Yoruba while growing up in a Yoruba speaking community. I attended public schools where Yoruba was spoken as well but thank God for the immense interest I have always had in the English language- Now, in my 40s , I can speak English correctly and with a certain degree of fluency. I strongly recommend English should be encouraged to be spoken in every home side by side with your mother tongue cos I am a proud African man as well. Our indigenous languages must not become extinct

cutecommend:
What language does members of your family speak often to each other?

(a) Pidgin English
(b) Polished English language
(c) Your Tribal language.
(d) Sign language

etc.

British English

BTW, which one is "polished " English

Samantha124:
(c) My tribal language.

But my fiance speaks to me in Sotho and I speak to him in Sepedi.

Insippidi?

English and our native tongue. I understand the language and can speak it. There is no motivation to learn it further since English takes you a long way in urban locations.

Samantha124:
Maybe you should have started giving him the look at home whenever you wanted him to keep quiet.

My mom also has this "shut up" look she'd give me whenever we're with people and she wants me to shut up.

She'd look at me with a smile and blink her eyes twice or thrice, then I'd know that I must shut up... Her face would be looking happy while her eyes would be angry...

LWKMD! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

AbujaLagos:
papa Yoruba
Papa mama Hausa
My mother Ebira
Mother mama Igbo.

Jesus!

Na you get excuse pass to dey speak only English, yet you are rocking like 4 indigenous languages

Nice one. Your family is doing a good job!

Nigerian English by me and wify then British accent by my kids. My kids do understand Pidgin I guess cause they sing Nigerian songs.

seuncyrus:
Can you imagine how funny this is, Africans discussing what language is spoken in their homes. Will an European or Middle Eastern be discussing what language they speak in their homes?

The Africans have been conquered, they name their children after the whiteman, talk like the whiteman, dress like the whiteman, worship his gods and aspire to be like him

Why didn't you type this in Yoruba language and why did you add a European name Cyrus to your moniker??

I'm just tired of fighting.

legitnow1:



Bbay, y did u apologise now?
U have right to be here, it is your data.
We need the cultural exchange and love.
Black people need to stop hating.

Samantha124:
I'm just tired of fighting.

Understandable, let me deal with the gorrilas.
Pay dem no mind.