Truly I like languages very well and I thank God that my parents spoke my monther tongue to me while I was growing up, making me fluent in my dialect. In addition to my dialect wich is Igbo, I learnt Hausa and can speak that too.

I even need more, so I even learnt French and can speak it moderately. I am just happy that I know how to speak them especially my own dialect.

But I know that generations of these days, many don't even know how to speak their dialect at all, as result of being brought up by Turenci (hausa word for English) parents. Parents that only blow grammar to their kids, thereby making them incapable of flowing their dialect.

To me I feel that those that cannot speak their dialect are seriously missing in actions. Not even the amebo that most people like doing these day that they can participate on in public discussions.

The funniest thing is that some of them that even claimed that knowing how to speak only English has help them get fluent in English, but together with the local dialects that I can speak, I can even still blow the English grammar more than many of them, indicating that knowing your dialect and other ones has nothing to do with knowing or not knowing how to speak English.

So for those that falls into the category of not being able to blow your dialect, especially the so called Aje butters, are you having any regrets for that?
Cha cha cha cha cha....,.Ndi Igbo kwenu! So una see say I tite for my language? Proudly Igbo come rain come sunshine...even though I knew quite alright that it was not a choice for me to make in determing which ethnic group I want to be born into but by chance. If given the choice or power to choose, I will definitely choose Igbo again and again and again.

Nde bany'i ekene mu unu o, ka udo diri unu nine. Gba nu mbo, ka unu bugo ifa ndere na iru eba'hnwa nde beke kporo Front page

As an Igbo man, I speak Igbo to a communicable extent, but not perfectly like I wanted. I usually mix it with English and can never speak it without mixing it with borrowed words from english. I speak yoruba too as the same degree I speak Igbo, but I speak English and Pidgin fluently.

Choi! Kwe zue nee... This is my people e. Ekene di kwalu gi, nwa ofor. U are true son of the soil. I pity those dat don't knw hw to speak dier language. Oya moderator, what ar u waiting 4, fast fast just do d needful, because papa Emeka and Mama adaobi must hear this.. Front page tins no waste time abeg mod

no regrets, I need the brain space to learn relevant foreign languages like; Chinese, French and Hindu

i can speak o but to write igbo no be beans.



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y would i learn anyoda language except my mother tongue even to d extent of learning hausa










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na me u wan turn to onye boko?





















I jump am pass @op

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I can speak yoruba fluently, but I wish I could speak other 9ja languages like igbo & hausa. I know so little or close to nothing about the two languages. I just wish I could but I'm clueless

kamari......no regret......proudly ekiti girl

No regrets...trying my best.

jayseehe: no regrets

wich tribe?

No Regret

No regrets, my dialect is choking anyway..


It's like speaking in tongues..

If I didn't know how to speak my language I would have lost my pride.
Agwo Annang Ade Agwo Uko.

Hmmm true @topic....
I wonder why "modern" parents of today nolonger deem it fit to teach their children their languages and soonest Nigerian languages will go extinct...
Look around you and tell us how many kids speak their local languages among themselves while relating to parents or siblings, all of them feel comfortable in another man's dialect imported during the time when Africans where used as slaves...
Most Nigerians in Diaspora do not allow their kids come home even on holidays to mingle and learn traditions too, they don't speak local dialect with them over there, despite having local names.
I hate when children can't speak their local languages and they still murder the little english they manage to learn while talking.
I think the trend should stop biko, don't just give them local names while depriving them of speaking their dialects, let them visit grandparents once in a year atleast and make your mode of communication to be in your local languages even if both parents are not of the same tribe or ethnic groups, one of them should devout time to teach them african languages and values...

No regret....but wait let me ask my father where am from!
**he asks his father **
My father just told me am from somewhere around the east!

My broda there re plenty regrets ooo.....and it hurts when i see outsiders speaking my language fluently... I just have to push my self to d limit speaking dis yoruba dat hss refused to stay in my mouth...am not full yoruba tho...am mixed breed ..mayb daz why i cant speak it fluently...i have dis Igbo tunation when am speakin..smh smh..choi!!! na for skul i suffer pass wen i had to write WAEC!!! funny enough i carry C4 for the course...how dat magic tey happen i no sabi.

But dammit Yoruba is hard one kain sha...!! if only d tunation wasnt dere *crying..m so used to english and pidgin

Well, I can speak my language like mad, come sabi my dialect join am like say tommorow no go come. But dis no mean say I be dumb for english ooooo..... Many speak english fluently pass me but I speak correctly pass many

Luckily I do

I know how to 4 languages, but can't speak mine, funny.... I understands it though.

I can't speak, & I regret it alot.

What am I gonna teach my kids, they will only kno mummy comes from so so and so place but they don't kno wat they speak there?

I feel bad most times, cos @ times I c people I kno speakin but I can't join them.

It's bad.

I can speak my language but i can't write it down

AgapeCharis: wich tribe?

my mama tell me say I be Igbo

A big regret it is for me. I can't speak my father's language but fluent in mum's. How I wish it is the reverse.

Please what is dialect?

I think its a disaster if you dont know any indigenous language at that.

Dem dey use d dialect witdraw moni 4 bank ni??If no,den no regret

I speak my language tOo much so it affected my tongue when I speak english so I moved to the city to perfect my english so that I don't disgrace myself when I move to Amelica sorry America

jayseehe: no regrets, I need the brain space to learn relevant foreign languages like; Chinese, French and Hindu

this is what OMOALE looks like.

I am proudly from d east and I tear d language anyhow and even attended a university in d east to learn more of my culture since I was brought up in Lagos.I speak yoruba too,a little french and pidgin very well.For me,any person of African descent who cannot speak his or her language is culturally handicapped.And those who see their language as dirty to speak to their kids can be described as having a feeling of inferiority complex.While growing up,I wrote articles for magazines and in my first semester of first year,my article was chosen from my department for a faculty publication. So who says the best grammarians are the ones who learnt only a borrowed english language






My son is now growing the way I did............Our language first