Do any of you Nigerians (or Africans in General) can&#x27;t speak your language

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Original post by Youni-chan

I can't but I can understand most of it. I don't really care tbh lol it's my parent's fault, not mine. They never taught me and learning languages hurts my head at my age now...

Yoruba** btw lol

most nigerians blame our parents that its the parent's fault for not teaching their children their language, i think (or maybe in my case) it isn't the parents case, its just our too british brain been stuck in our british accents or something :s-smilie:

and yeah learning languages at an older age does become hard lol

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Yup my dad speaks Edo and my mum speaks Yoruba but they never taught me either and I see no need to learn now, I understand pidgin anyway so its fine imo.

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Original post by Youni-chan

I can't but I can understand most of it. I don't really care tbh lol it's my parent's fault, not mine. They never taught me and learning languages hurts my head at my age now...

Yoruba** btw lol

I like languages more now :biggrin:

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Original post by TheDaylighter

Yup my dad speaks Edo and my mum speaks Yoruba but they never taught me either and I see no need to learn now, I understand pidgin anyway so its fine imo.

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but you can actually get away with it because no other nigerians or relatives will question why you dont speak either.

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Youni-chan

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Original post by O.Ozz

most nigerians blame our parents that its the parent's fault for not teaching their children their language, i think (or maybe in my case) it isn't the parents case, its just our too british brain been stuck in our british accents or something :s-smilie:

and yeah learning languages at an older age does become hard lol

But other cultures such as Asian are just fine...most of them can speak their language. They should be talking to us in it at a young age which would allow us to easily learn it as we grow up...but I guess being an english country and Nigeria being somewhat english speaking kinda makes the importance of doing that meh.

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Original post by Youni-chan

But other cultures such as Asian are just fine...most of them can speak their language. They should be talking to us in it at a young age which would allow us to easily learn it as we grow up...but I guess being an english country and Nigeria being somewhat english speaking kinda makes the importance of doing that meh.

my mum bizzarely claims the reason why she didn't speak to me young was because she was scared that i would confuse languages :confused:

I just think nigerians who have moved here take it too personal on british nigerians who don't know their language and this can be embarrasing. I can't even go to my local barbers anymore because me and the barber are from the same tribe and he bullies me to death for my lack of native speaking. painful.

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missfats

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I speak conversational somali

However when I watch somali TV, I literally do not understand anything because of how unadvanced my somali is.

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donutaud15

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Original post by Youni-chan

But other cultures such as Asian are just fine...most of them can speak their language. They should be talking to us in it at a young age which would allow us to easily learn it as we grow up...but I guess being an english country and Nigeria being somewhat english speaking kinda makes the importance of doing that meh.

Erm not always. Plenty of filipinos born outside of the Philippines doesn't speak the language.

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Original post by missfats

I speak conversational somali

However when I watch somali TV, I literally do not understand anything because of how unadvanced my somali is.

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wow, thats quite interesting

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toonervoustotalk

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I can't speak Ga but my parents can
I am from Ghana

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Original post by O.Ozz

but you can actually get away with it because no other nigerians or relatives will question why you dont speak either.

I do get questioned about it from both sides but its usually in a jokey way so I can just laugh it off. It was horrible when I went to Nigeria and everyone I was introduced expected me to respond to what they were saying and then complain about westernised parents when I said I didn't understand :rolleyes:

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Original post by O.Ozz

my mum bizzarely claims the reason why she didn't speak to me young was because she was scared that i would confuse languages :confused:

My mum says this as well, it's really weird :confused:

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Original post by TheDaylighter

I do get questioned about it from both sides but its usually in a jokey way so I can just laugh it off. It was horrible when I went to Nigeria and everyone I was introduced expected me to respond to what they were saying and then complain about westernised parents when I said I didn't understand :rolleyes:

I went to nigeria this year and felt evils everywhere, they kept on bullying my parents why i didn't speak my language. They couldn't even understand my british accent so i had to force myself at times to speak broken english so that they can understand.

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Original post by O.Ozz

I went to nigeria this year and felt evils everywhere, they kept on bullying my parents why i didn't speak my language. They couldn't even understand my british accent so i had to force myself at times to speak broken english so that they can understand.

Yeah I feel you, it was the same here. You wouldn't think English was the national language :rolleyes: