Honestly, I feel like if most of the subjects we struggled to understand in secondary school e.g Mathematics, were taught in pidgin English, alot of us would have become mathematics wizards...

You can't go to China or Japan and find their teachers teaching their students in English, that is one of the reasons I believe these guys are witches and wizards when it comes to anything Maths and Sciences...

Why do our parents feel like pidgin English is a forbidden language..

Sometimes you see some parents seriously warning Their kids never to speak pidgin else they get flogged...

Because our official language is English.😄

People don't respect pidgin english as correct english and many of the areas where the pidgin language originate from the people was very violent and aggressive.
To some educated parents it makes u irresponsible before them.

blazepascal:
Because our official language is English.😄

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

No 1 reason is because they want them to stand out amongst others whenever they find themselves.
2. Is because they might eventually study in the western world or work there.
3. Pidgin will make them local champions😂
On the other hand
Nigerians don't value what they have, they feel it's barbaric, meanwhile even some of the whites wants to learn our pidgin.

I’m fighting hard to rationalize this.

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

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

illicit:
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

Been taught in indigenous languages doesn't make sense because we are one country and pidgin English is the language that we all speak and understand 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.

illicit:


Yes

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

Nigerian Languages are taught at schools too

Which is absolutely not necessarily

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:
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

illicit:


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

You home to learn

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

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

Look at the class of people who speak it and make your conclusion. Last I remember, books aren't written in the lingo nor do the speakers bother to improve themselves literature-wise. You either pick one, mastering English or pidgin. there is no in-between.

They want them to speak Queen's English

Because it is official language of agberos and street boys and girls.

You can't use pidgin English to write WAEC or report for an international journal.
Children should be allowed to speak Pidgin when they are in an informal setting and good English when necessary with proper diction too.
Native languages should also be encouraged

kokoBoii:
Honestly, I feel like if most of the subjects we struggled to understand in secondary school e.g Mathematics, were taught in pidgin English, alot of us would have become mathematics wizards...

You can't go to China or Japan and find their teachers teaching their students in English, that is one of the reasons I believe these guys are witches and wizards when it comes to anything Maths and Sciences...

Why do our parents feel like pidgin English is a forbidden language..

Sometimes you see some parents seriously warning Their kids never to speak pidgin else they get flogged...

It affects the proper usage of English grammar

E.g using "eat" instead of "chop" and vise versa

Reading...

illicit:
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

100℅ correct

Nice

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.

Na low mentality dey worry dem normally........Abi when messi, wasn't the greatest player ever was unveiled at the MLS league last week,he didn't speak English but his spanish......I wonder why we Nigerians can't value our own language here...

Las las, pigin ain't no english but a language on its own.

It's like you want the kid to write in English and think in Yoruba. You know how the grades will be like

Some funny pidgin English Proverbs in our Darling Country....

Na eba wey get luck dey pick fish for vegetable soup 😉.

Yansh no get razor, but e dey cut shit. 😉

Where dem dey sell weed no dey get signboard.

Madness no hard to form, na the trekking be wahala.

Pikin wey dey find party rice no suppose to fear dance.

Lion dey waka small small, e no mean say e dey fear, na werin to chop e dey find...

You buy your babe clothe, another man remove am...that is division of labour.

Monkey smart monkey smart na becos tree near tree.

Cat fit swims no mean say hin be catfish.

Make I chop their money small, na so olosho take start.

As goat take stand, na so them go take price am.

E don tey wey yansh get centre parting.

Dem dey count meat, kpomo sef dey raise hand.

Come chop no mean say make you come belle full.

Fly wey no dey listen dey follow dead body enter grave.

U cannot say cos u get too much money to buy salt then put full bag inside your ogbono soup.

Pikin wey say eim mama no go sleep eim self no go close eyez.

Woman wey dey find pikin no dey wear pant.

No be person wey call police dey win case



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