₦airaland Forum

CHESTER48:
you think Nigerians speak good English we are just like India. You think your English is good cause you speak it and hear it by yourself, it like smelling your own Saint. You can never know how you smell unless someone tell you. I had a friend in Canada, when we speak he always laugh and tell us how our English sounds cause of our tongue. Mind you I am Igbo, and you know our English is one of the best in naija.

itsme01:
first Nigerians speak good english by all standard and this gives us edge in terms of marketing our creative industry as our musicians and entertainers are better regarded

secondly independent polls conducted by CNN and other orgarnisation had always rated Nigerian accent with english as one of the best or sexiest

lonelydora:
In Africa, Nigeria is the best in English

CHESTER48:
when you call Nigerian I hope you know hausas are there, with their bad mother tongue.

itsme01:
oga group in Nigeria have tongue, if you here an uneducated Ibo man speak they sound funny same as yoruba and hausa

Hausa is a spin off of hebrew language and they dont have F consonant they have PH same way arab dont have eeh vowel sound am sure you know what Ibos lack too, as for yorubas or S is SH

CHESTER48:
please I don't know what Igbos lack. Tell me.

itsme01:
l and r sounding similar eg no lefelendum no erection lol

CHESTER48:
nah I doubt. Doesn't even apply to 90 percent of Igbos. Maybe just a few 5 percent or so. I hardly hear l instead of r

smexy:
Not a thing to be proud of, imo

MZrapper:
Nigeria doesn't come before Ghana biko.

Birdeyeview:
Really?!

itsme01:
lol this best captures your earlier submission " You think your English is good cause you speak it and hear it by yourself, it like smelling your own Saint. You can never know how you smell " everyone knows the l for r thingy

Minjim:
Ghanaian don't speak Queen's English

Nigerians come way above them in trying to speak it

CHESTER48:
nah I doubt. Doesn't even apply to 90 percent of Igbos. Maybe just a few 5 percent or so. I hardly hear l instead of r

itsme01:
oga group in Nigeria have tongue, if you here an uneducated Ibo man speak they sound funny same as yoruba and hausa

Hausa is a spin off of hebrew language and they dont have F consonant they have PH same way arab dont have eeh vowel sound am sure you know what Ibos lack too, as for yorubas or S is SH

itsme01:
l and r sounding similar eg no lefelendum no erection lol

itsme01:
first Nigerians speak good english by all standard and this gives us edge in terms of marketing our creative industry as our musicians and entertainers are better regarded

secondly independent polls conducted by CNN and other orgarnisation had always rated Nigerian accent with english as one of the best or sexiest

crash12345:
am a Ghanaian and that's how those words are pronounced in English by the British native speakers .Below is the phonetics spellings in the Merriam Webster Dictionary. The fact that there's an "O" or "or" doesn't mean we should pronounced the words in "or".There's a way of pronouncing words just as Ph and knife,known,psychology etc are pronounced. Ghanaians adopted our pronunciations.Look below the word for the right phonetic spelling and pronunciation not the raw spelling.

So even with Ghana, upon all these centuries of practicing English due to the English or British being with us for over 300 years and all our forefathers and current leaders trained and schooled in England, our native language sometimes get caught up with us with the pronouncing example instead of saying "dactar" we say "doctar" and instead of saying "accemedashen" we say "accommodeshen" buh we get majority of the pronouncing right though and our accent is raw buh we break and pause words just as the British so we don't speak faster like the American.

LadySarah:
Use it and get Brit Citizenship.Thanks

dawnomike:
None ooo! My brother in the Lord... Nigeria is even better. You need to hear that of liberians

Venerable612:
What do you mean by correct British English?

None!

If there was any - we all won’t need to write Toefl and IELTS to get an admission to study abroad.

CHESTER48:
please I don't know what Igbos lack. Tell me.

crash12345:
lol,nobody is fighting for British citizenship. I am a Ghanaian first before everything buh you don't diss our pronunciation and accent cos as I said,the British had been with us for over 300 years since 1471 when they came so we easily adopted to their way of speaking their own language and so the way we pronounce our words are very similar or even same as that of the English or British person. Pastor,doctor and mom are pronounced pastar,dactar and mam and that's a fact with the phonetic sounds I showed you.

femi4:
oil is pronounced as oyel

CHESTER48:
please I don't know what Igbos lack. Tell me.

Birdeyeview:
i think nigerians speaks the best in english, then ghana afterwards.

Stillthebest:
Nigeria is good at using tenses and the vocabs while Ghana has almost-near oral pronunciation.

MZrapper:
Nigerians don't speak nor have Queen's accent. Na fake.

Boomboost:
Kenya jor... Their accent rhymes with British English. I think some South Africans do too.