₦airaland Forum

sunsweet33:
There’s nothing wrong with teaching diction, but these children aren’t speaking with any recognisable accent. They’re just using their tongue to mash it.

Some decades ago we used to have professional broadcasters who spoke good Nigerian English without pretence. Don’t know what is happening now o

Not just decades ago.

Dem full ARISE TV.

Fiscus105:
The worst among is Yoruba, several children can't speak Yoruba language again, let alone inculcate Yoruba culture into the blood of their kids.


We always do our thing beyond normal in this country.

Worst part, parent will even caution you against speaking it to their wards. Telling you they don't understand Yoruba, like WTF.

When this country is faced with ledaers like tinubu some are doing nonesens things like this, it shall be well

I absolutely support your response.


What's the big deal in having so many accent? Been versatile in spoken languages is a gift and not all those students will easily blend in that foreign accent in that class. It's a gift and good if discovered here in school locally before you eventually travel....

Rexymania:
It's beautiful and they can go far with it

Speak English like an English man
Speak Yoruba like a Yoruba man
Speak Igbo like an Igbo man

I don't see anything wrong with it.

I commend it a lot

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LMAO. This is embarrassing
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Once upon a time, my English teacher said ;

"If we decide to teach English the way it should be taught, people we say we are lunatics"

Since the day Nigeria cancel history as a subject naim i know it is finish!

That one na Nigerian private school mediocrity o.

What matters now is how our subsidy removed will begin to speak in our standard of living after almost two years of this pain. Many have died in this untold hardship brought in in the last 10 years.

Nigerian private schools are full of deceit. Claiming to be what they are not.

How many of the Nigerian private schools are taught to write external exams independent of malpractices?

kiddkash:
Phonetics not phonics

That's not exactly phonetics

That's phonics

Kobojunkie:
Use your brain, why would they have need to speak with a British accent for heavens sake?🙄🙄🙄

Okay you use your anus why should these young ones here speak with British accent?

Kobojunkie:
No dey lie!🙄🙄🙄

They are teaching the kids to speak with a foreign accent, a skill which will come in useful since as things remain in Nigeria a vast majority of them will eventually have to JAPA to find a good life for themselves. And before you claim that having a thick Nigerian accent abroad is OK, I advise to you realize that the vast majority of misunderstandings that people experience abroad have to do with the difficulty in communicating clearly to those around them.

What are you saying....

I said it's not unusual

Greatechng:
➜Okay you use your anus why should these young ones here speak with British accent?

Are you suffering from a lack of comprehension skills or something?

It is by English since many of them will need to later JAPA to other countries to find themselves a decent life.

Please, engage that noggin! It is not meant for decoration.

They speak like robots

Technology is what they should embrace because that is the future. Speaking English like the owners won't put food on your table.

ednut1:
i know so. If an igbo man who wasn’t born in yoruba land speaks Yoruba you can tell from his accent. Same with a yoruba person born in uk and speaking yoruba you cant tell also

What you are saying is not entirely true. Have you heard dj zeez speak? Or even heard any of his songs?

ppogba:
Not just decades ago.

Dem full ARISE TV.

Yes, Arise and Channels are trying even if some of them overdo it at times.

noob03saibot:
What you are saying is not entirely true. Have you heard dj zeez speak? Or even heard any of his songs?

he was born in yoruba land. His mum is Yoruba. Learn to read. Show us one musician that came to Yoruba land from igbo land as adults like flavour or phyno with perfect yoruba accent. 😒

sunsweet33:
The only celebrity I have seen with a bona fide British accent is Burna boy. He can on it and off it on demand, as rough as he looks 😂 the rest of them are just pretending.

Hmmm...did he spend his youthful years in the UK? Many accents in Britain ....which bona fine one he speaks? ....as in when he speaks people can say where he's from in the UK. An American speaks ...one who knows accents can say he's from Texas ...or he's from New York... and even to say from where in NY ....the Bronx... Manhattan or Brooklyn.

Nonsense!

I once got a contract job in an Indian company and I noticed most of their staff switch to this funny Indian accent when they wanna communicate with the Indians. They believe that's the only way communication can take place and it's a big lie because I communicated normally with them and they understood me.


Your accent makes you unique, I can't fake accent to please any foreigner.

mrcork is a psychopath

Sonnobax15:

Dem Mrcork wannabes

ednut1:
he was born in yoruba land. His mum is Yoruba. Learn to read. Show us one musician that came to Yoruba land from igbo land as adults like flavour or phyno with perfect yoruba accent. 😒

didn't know he was born there, same with the mom being yoruba. Thanks for pointing that out.

ednut1:
If you go abroad and speak like this you will be mocked. Clown behaviour

They don't know yet.
I wish I can grant them Visas
I struggle to teach my kids here our mother tongue and these poorly educated fellows are corrupting these kids😭😭😭😭
That school should be closed for denying those kids that true identity

totally phenomenal

sunsweet33:
Yes, Arise and Channels are trying even if some of them overdo it at times.

I can tell you for free, no one in Channels dey form yeye phonee. But in Arise, every one except the male and probably, Ngozi Alaegbu and Tope Fagbemi or whatever the name is are just the only ones that do not form Phonee.

I watch the two and can speak well.

APOPTOSIS:
They don't know yet.
I wish I can grant them Visas
I struggle to teach my kids here our mother tongue and these poorly educated fellows are corrupting these kids😭😭😭😭
That school should be closed for denying those kids that true identity

😂😂

IELTS, TOEFL, please note.

No do dey stress pupils from this school again for Test of English as a foreign language o. 😝😝

nnamdi640:
Technology is what they should embrace because that is the future. Speaking English like the owners won't put food on your table.

You get money to buy them this technology then? Great/Eff active communication skills are assets that even technology cannot give anyone for free.

Originalsly:
Hmmm...did he spend his youthful years in the UK? Many accents in Britain ....which bona fine one he speaks? ....as in when he speaks people can say where he's from in the UK. An American speaks ...one who knows accents can say he's from Texas ...or he's from New York... and even to say from where in NY ....the Bronx... Manhattan or Brooklyn.

Yes he spent some of his teen years in London…I stumbled across a video of him on a British channel on YouTube…I couldn’t believe the sound coming from his mouth 😅

They sound nothing like what they think they sound like

ppogba:
I can tell you for free, no one in Channels dey form yeye phonee. But in Arise, every one except the male and probably, Ngozi Alaegbu and Tope Fagbemi or whatever the name is are just the only ones that do not form Phonee.

I watch the two and can speak well.

I tuned in to Channels live like 5 mins ago and the reporter was messing up speaking rubbish phoné. So 🤷🏾‍♀️ nobody is exempt from it these days

Rebuker:
You have a point, bro👍 but when you, as an Igbo man, speak Yoruba, your intention, aim, or joy is to be able to speak exactly like a Yoruba man. You wish to speak Yoruba in such a way that anyone who hears you will praise you for speaking it so well or even for trying to sound like a Yoruba person. No one will mock you; instead, they will be happy to see you speaking it. And since we adopt the language in the first place, trying to sound like the people we learn it from shouldn’t be a bad idea either.

Or should we just stick to speaking our local dialects and forget English? What do you think? 😁😁😁😁

They sound nothing like the people they learnt it from. It obvious to tell, they are trying too hard.

Kobojunkie:
You get money to buy them this technology then? Great/Eff active communication skills are assets that even technology cannot give anyone for free.

Lol, waste of time, even the country that owned that language are facing economic crisis tackless of third world trying to force their selves in speaking such language. Technology is now the key, nobody want to know how bad your English is, beside, I know many that can speak good English yet can't feed themselves properly