₦airaland Forum

samsard:
I'd be more interested in ensuring kids speak many languages fluently than focus solely on English. Some parents apply the same logic even with their own languages.
If kids read well enough, sometimes watch TV programmes in proper English & use it adequately in the right contexts, it'll definitely help them master English & each language with minimal language interference.

Yeah sure

In Linguistics, there's Underground structure and surface structure

Now speaking many Languages is not bad, infact you don't have to be educated to be bilingual(speaking) but writing and speaking is a different thing, u have to learn that at a school

In language interference, while you may speak or use 2 or more languagess correctly, there are always instants where u will unknowingly transfer properties/attributes of one language to another, like concepts

In English Language, there are names for degrees of rainfall and there are particular verbs attached to them. You have drizzle, rain, shower, storm etc, in some other languages, rain is rain no matter the degree

Such a speaker of Language B now who speaks English may always refer to any rainfall as rain no matter the degree...

Now to Pidgin, it's worse because it doesn't follow any convention, everybody can have their own version of it, what's acceptable and understandable here might be strange to another speaker... It is not a language, it's just a corrupted version of a standard language but it serves a purpose, it is used for communication, Most importantly when u have a standard language speaker and a illiterate, they may still communicate, thanks to Pidgin.

In Niger Delta, pidgin is almost a Creole

No nah

He should try to restore order in the east first

Charity begins at home

Every wrong doing is a sin but not all sins leads to death

Bible ( I don forget d chapter)

This one no be like gift Sha

E be like curse

It's my Grandfather's given name, I will give my children my father's

My children will give their children mine...

Probably

That boy will hate u sha

I don't miss smoking Igbo

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samsard:
Most of my cousins speak pristine English when they want and they still speak pidgin fluently. This is nothing but faux elitism. We are capable of speaking more than one language properly.

Yeah sure

There are always exceptions to every norms or situations

There's something called Language interference, it's a whole course in Linguistics

I am a Linguist

She and her cousin parted ways

They went under

mariahAngel:
Na tropical fried rice be that.
One recipe I have no interest in trying out. Ever!

Oh my

D thing no dey appealing at all at all

Make she just serve me diced pineapples sef

Bimpe29:
Abi you don't understand his kind of English that's really different from the one you are teaching 😜

Lol

U got me hahahaha

Eeyah

Never heard of her

mariahAngel:
Table shaker. Hahaha



I considered visiting bestie, but that inlaws' obe ata was just to tantalizing to give up.

Omo iya mi

U no lie

But wetin be dat thing wey spouse cook, na pineapple wey dey rotten be dat ni

My bestie o

Inlaw food be like sacrifice

Packagerz howfar nah

Why are u lying that Hilton hotel is just 2 years

Hilton that I have known as far back as 2011

SAMUEL1947:
Adedoyin😏🏃🏃🏃

Lol run o

PTSD

ahnie:
Meanwhile earlier this here I saw an aged soldier that was preaching the gospel to some young rascally men...I was impressed.



Few hours later I saw baba agba inside bet naija staking bets .
Maybe he has bn possessed by belzebub that time

U say

Wizkid no be anybody papa mate

reiddecuti:
The earlier we adopt pigin English as our official English the better for us. Rather than going round the circle f00ling ourselves trying to please our masters.

We can regulate and standardize it.


Just like South Africa, Australia, Canada and even US have their own English version.

Sorry to say

That's not pidgin

That is South African English
Australian English
Canadian English
American English ...

We have Nigerian English as well, it is different to Pidgin

Pidgin still differs to Creole

Candidlady:
Hmmmm




While broke men are the problem of this world... Rubbish

U no need transport fare nah

Na insolent girls dem dey talk about

saphiere:
Any man who invites a lady to his house and does not provide transportation fare is more useless than the lady who asks for transportation money. Why would you initiate a visit if you are not ready to take the responsibility?

If u invite me to your house, will u pay my transport?

ignis:
You should not teach English then, I think English should teach you.

I swear

Speak for yourself Mr

kokoBoii:
I speak pidgin and I didn't have to go to any school to know how to read and write it..

Lol

Pidgin English is a phenomenon

No standard Alphabet, spellings, tenses

It's hard to put down for universal usage

kokoBoii:
Which is absolutely not necessarily

You may speak pidgin or Yoruba, that doesn't mean you can automatically read it or write with it

You still have to learn about it

kokoBoii:
Been taught in indigenous languages doesn't make sense because we are one country and pidgin English is the language that we all speak in Nigeria irrespective of region. That means someone who speaks Igbo would have to be restricted to going to Igbo schools...That would have made more sense if we were not a single country.

Do you realize that pidgin English has varieties

Hausa man own different to Warri o

Yeah

So actually, in China where Mandarin is the official language, not every Chinese speaks Mandarin as a native tongue, u will have to learn it at school

U don't have to be taught in a language u already know, Education is all about learning

kokoBoii:
Our official language is English, but we still have to be taught our official language in schools..

Yes

L1s (Native/mother tongues) speaking might be acquired without going to school

But u have to be schooled to learn to read and write it

That's why Nigerian Languages are taught at schools

In China, they don't teach them in pidgin too

U could have advocated for being taught in Indigenous language

Pidgin English is colloquial English

Why the parents and teachers frown at it is because it affects your proper English Language Learning and usage

I am a Linguist