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I speak

Bini ( Fluent)
Yoruba ( Fluent)
English ( Fluent)
Hausa ( Little)
Ibo (Little)
Esan (Little)

Open to learn more.

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[b][/b]PHINGOLILILY " A LANGUAGE FROM MARS"

Guys,

Dis is real naija unity & (di) versity in action!

Well pour moi, am looking to learn French, Spanish & German? in good time, but right now, it's Yoruba, English for me!

And since my first visit to da true north (Abuja to be precise), whenever i heard my associates speak 'Hausa', y feel u want to learn, to just get in dere, in a matter of time

N i think it would be nice to understand / learn Ibo too

It's fantastic even to know dat Kogi (a state in Nigeria) consists of Ibira, Igala, Nupe & Yorubas?

Wasnt it Late Obafemi Awolowo dat said ''Nigeria is not a nation, but that it is an appellation used to describe the nations within its borders, unlike in Europe, where u have the french, irish, english nations in their own countries / defined borders''

Wouldnt it be great if more of us sought to learn more of each other's tribes and cultures especially languages?

Naija is great

Keep it up nairaland, it's been an interesting & wonderful forum thus far!

I can speak English and Yorùbá languages very fluently, A little bit of Arabic and that is due to the fact that I'm a Muslim, I wanna learn how to speak it well together with French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Not forgetting Hausa and Igbo, Infact all languages

I can speak English and Yorùbá languages very fluently, A little bit of Arabic and that is due to the fact that I'm a Muslim, I wanna learn how to speak it well together with French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Not forgetting Hausa and Igbo, Infact all languages

English - very fluent - (Nigerian accent, British accent, American accent, indian accent too . . . any 1)

Ibibio - Mme sen sem iko nnyin. Nsi ka n ndi wed no fon.

French - Je parle tres bien francais, je peux parler avec l'accent francaise aussi.

Yoruba - Bee ni, awon nairaland, mo ti de o. Emi na soro yoruba. Se e wa pa?

Pidgin English - dem say no be today fowl sabi sey im yansh dey smell.

Spanish, German, Thai, Hindi, Igbo - I can say just the basics like how are you, good morning, thank you, please . . . etc

@ POster.

Do you speak those languages fluently or you just out to Kid.

well in that case i speak up to 23 languages,

how abt that.

dnot ask me to list them, pls.

think it will be cool to see the diversity of people on nairaland by knowing how many languages they speak. As I believe the best way to understand people is to learn their language if/when appropriate.

All languages including foreign and local to Nigeria in order of proficiency (speaking, reading, writing) Highest proficiency to lowest proficiency.

1. English
2. French
3. Chinese Mandarin (Putonghua)
4. Yoruba
5. Igarra

How can you measure the diversity of a person based on these few languages.Ukwuani, ika,igbo ,hausa nor dey your list?

Yoruba
Ifon{my local dialect}
English
Pidgin English
I speak in TONGUES

Nairaland is making it difficult to find posts one posted. Kinda messed up the system is not like it used to be

@brein
I speak them intermediate to fluent


English - fluent            since growing up
French - High intermediate lol   about 10years ago started
Chinese - intermediate               8 months and counting
Yoruba - intermediate                on and off depending on environment and people around
Igarra - beginner lol                    so so once a while when i hear


It is quite interesting to see the diversity and how much people are learning. Pretty cool
Diversity doesnt necessary me local and foreign. As we all know different parts of nigeria has different cultures. Knowing those as well is great. I am not a yoruba guy but I know how to speak, read a little and understand yoruba. That helps in many ways. As I think i said previously like knowing languages will help understand people. You have something to relate to. It is all about understanding and being aware of our differences and accepting of those who do thing totally different from us.

Diversity is not only about learning languages. I bet many people have lived in different places in their lifetime but it is difficult to pick up the language. But they understand and know about culture and traditions. Picking up a new language as we know is not an easy thing to do. We do what we can to pick up those we may have interest in. So Languages is just part of it there are other things you need to take into consideration
Hopefully that makes things clearer. lol

I SPEAK:

ENGLISH

IBIBIO

IGBO

EFIK

PIDGIN

FRENCH (VERY LITTLE)

YORUBA (VERY LITTLE)

Yeghe(An Ogoni language dialect)
English
Yoruba(A little)
Gibberish

Yeghe(An Ogoni language dialect)
English
Yoruba(A little)
Gibberish

i speak;
Yoruba
English (native english)
Owo dialect (yoruba tribe)

Understand Hausa but speak lil'
some Igbo
speak spanish fluently and italian.

I speak english fluently (native language) but am desperately learning to speak spanish fluently, for all of my friends in Nairaland, what is the best way to become multilingual, please be precise and informative in your suggestions. Thanks to all, will be visiting Nigeria next month for my first visit to the "Motherland" where the most beautiful people on the planet reside.

EyesRight

English
Igbo
Yoruba
NIgerian pidgin
Pidgin English.

A little of:
Hausa
French

FRENCH - ENGLISH - ITALIAN - SPANSH DIALETS: (BASSAR KOTOKOLI KABYE EWE MINE) TOGO (litttle of IGBO, HOUSSA , BINI ,YURUBA) NIGERIA
i tra sha

I can speak;
*English
*Kiswahili
*Taita
*Pokomo
*French (A little)
*Italian

server34:

English - very fluent - (Nigerian accent, British accent, American accent, indian accent too . . . any 1)

Ibibio - Mme sen sem iko nnyin. Nsi ka n ndi wed no fon.

French - Je parle tres bien francais, je peux parler avec l'accent francaise aussi.

Yoruba - Bee ni, awon nairaland, mo ti de o. Emi na soro yoruba. Se e wa pa?

Pidgin English - dem say no be today fowl sabi sey im yansh dey smell.

Spanish, German, Thai, Hindi, Igbo - I can say just the basics like how are you, good morning, thank you, please . . . etc

tu veux dire avec l'accent FRANÇAIS, pas francaiSe. c'est UN accent, pas UNE accent!
i hope you speak better than you write.

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I only know English fluently.
I have studied Spanish as a requirement by my college, but I am by no means fluent,

igbo english spanish french mandarin hebrew portugese japanese(a little) arabic german and a little hausa. dn't ask why i HAD 2 learn them

kliva6:

igbo english spanish french mandarin hebrew portugese japanese(a little) arabic german and a little hausa. dn't ask why i HAD 2 learn them

sorry i have 2 ask are you some secret service agent or what

LOL

You dey laugh I say make u answer something

i'm laughing cuz the question is funny 2 me. anyway i'm not, i'm just a normal person

I speak-
Yoruba (ijebu, abeokuta, awori, ondo)
English
Pilgin English
Afrikaans
Ashanté (ghana language)
Arabic

only english