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Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by Etosha: 1:36pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
You are talking about language, what about the craze for English names? 4 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by spencekat(m): 1:36pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Vinnie2000:It is not a good thing 2 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by spencekat(m): 1:37pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
ojun50:They can also learn their local languages too. 1 Like |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by spencekat(m): 1:38pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
It is parents fault especially those ones that came from the same tribe, example father and mother are from same tribe. 3 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by spencekat(m): 1:39pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Etosha:That is another vital issue. 1 Like |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by CJStarz: 1:43pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Na our own Igbo language go first go extinct. Come and see children born and raised in Aba telling you, 'I can't speak Igbo'. Nnaa ehhhh......I feel like nodding the parents of such children Vinnie2000: 5 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by lapazi(m): 1:45pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
There are couple of languages especially in the northeast that are already extinct but not due to English. It is inevitable. We can only slow it down with conscious effort but small dialects will be lost with time. Consumed by bigger ones 4 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by Obagreatdatoye(m): 1:45pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Yoruba...can never go extinct. Soon or later we would also make yoruba second official language....for all Nigerians. 4 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by nedekid: 1:47pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Simple solution, send your kids to public schools then. |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by spencekat(m): 1:48pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Advancedman:This is the point. |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by Mccullum: 1:48pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
These three languages can't go extinct in Nigeria, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbos, others that forming preferential treatment for English langue over their own languages will suffer it in future, Yoruba and Hausa will still stand till the world exist no more. 3 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by happney65: 1:51pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Moniya4Real: You dey mind them. Yet the Indians are top in science and technology all around the world The issue is. Some of these parents are actually suffering from an intense inferiority complex. Maybe because some of them were not brought up with the best Education or something. They were made to see their language and culture as the worst. Because I can't just fathom it. I don't live abroad. It is even understable for children born abroad. But you were born here, and your children will not be able to speak my language? Which kind of foolishness is that? Was talking to one 9 year old on Monday and he couldn't even understand a thing except 'scattered' Yoruba. I actually thought he was Igbo until I asked of his name and was surprised when told me his name. Asked him why he couldn't speak Yoruba. He said his parents used to tell them not to speak Yoruba I was amazed and perplexed. Very useless parents Some of them will even be happy about it. They will say he will learn it later. . I don't know why you can't learn English in school and learn your language at home with your parents etc. 3 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by aademola11: 1:52pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Till date i think the english of a thing is peculiar to the southerners, the Northerners do not play with their languages even in the place of work. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by ChybuzzDD(m): 1:52pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Obagreatdatoye: Before or after the clueless drugbag(the best you guys can offer to Nigerians) has finished destroying the country?? |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by dododawa1: 2:00pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
U must pass Yoruba language in LAGOS State Now 4 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by Babaalajo(m): 2:01pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
When you communicate in your language, you expressed yourself freely unlike English that you'll be thinking before you say a word atimes.... English language is good but our native language will always better 3 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by happney65: 2:02pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
aademola11: Never. Go and visit the FIRS in Ibadan. You will think you are in Kano. A federal government agency o 4 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by Amaggedon: 2:03pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Vinnie2000:How did you come about that statistics? Do you know how many Nigerians that can barely speak the English you talk about? Do you know the number of out of school children we have? Not that im saying it's wrong for parents to teach their kids their native tongue , im just saying your projection about our local languages going extinct is wrong, very wrong. 2 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by Chetas81(m): 2:03pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
YOU LOST YOUR MOTHERLAND LANGUAGE, YOU BECAME SLAVE TO THE ONE WHO FIND IT |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by HellVictorinho6(m): 2:08pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
How do i unread what i just read |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by RosyIsBlessed: 2:17pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
They (private schools) are also destroying the educational system in Nigeria. They are employing half baked teachers everywhere without adequate training and retraining just because they want to cut cost. |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by ruggedtimi(m): 2:17pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
I swear |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by charlsecy(m): 2:19pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
I speak my native language to my kids from 1 to 15th day of the month, and the second half in English. 3 Likes |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by Timoleon(m): 2:20pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
EyeCumInPiece: People don’t get this thing you just said which is the truth. I still posted something similar recently. For the most part, our existence especially as adults is not hinged on being fluent in the local dialects. Getting a job often requires fluency in foreign language and proficiency in using their tools (machines and tech) whose manuals are of course not written in our local languages. We have to engineer ways by which our productivity and sufficiency are intertwined with our use of indigenous language. 1 Like |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by countryman13: 2:22pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Vinnie2000:Mine is Local Language at home and English language while in school! Our mother tongue before any other one 1 Like |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by papyjaypaul: 2:25pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Timoleon: I disagree. It is what you comsume that affects you. Those tribes in Amazon, are they speaking English?Are they not surviving? Do they interact with the world? It is when you are ashamed of yourself you begin to look outside. Do you think Chinese don't study English? They use their language first but learn English to work with outside world. Nigerians think everything revolves round English. What about French, Spanish. How do people work with them? Was it Hausa that they spoke before they came to steal our gold in zamfara? 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by 3seriez(m): 2:26pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
VOsimhen144: I guess it is because of the drop in standards of Education. Back then , you will speak your native language and attend public school with very competent teachers. No vernacular was allowed in school but after school hours you would speak it everywhere. There needs to be a balance . But in my personal opinion , native languages should be used as a mode of communication in schools for better undertanding. Like you mentioned, foreign countries do this and have exceled at it. Who English help! 1 Like |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by SirLakes: 2:26pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
You go write ijaw and uhrobo for IELTS When your pikin write waec 20 times cos e no pass English you go understand say e dey importanter Aside understanding basic communication in native language, e no dey useful |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by Danfederal: 2:27pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by MorataFC: 2:34pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
Are you not guilty of the same thing? Why write your writeup in English, why not IJAW? or any other indigenous language. |
Re: How Private Schools And Parents Are Killing Our Nigerian Local Languages by Acidosis(m): 2:41pm On Oct 11, 2023 |
The diverse nature of Nigerian languages is the major reason many languages will become extinct. The languages are way too many and largely unreasonable. Many of the people claiming Yoruba language now actually have their local diatects. They've abandoned it for Yoruba. The Yoruba of Ilesha is not the same as the Yoruba of Ijebu, Ekiti, Ondo, Lagos, Yagba in Kogi. In Kogi state alone, there are over 10 different brands of Yoruba language. How can a generation keep up with that diversity? Almost every town has a local dialect. You may understand what they're saying,but you'll never be able to speak even if you know the generic Yoruba. Everyone is now adopting the generic Yoruba at the expense of their distinct local mother tongue. Yet, these same people who are completely clueless about their native languages turn around to blame English speakers. An Ilesha man who goes around speaking the generic Yoruba language has equally failed his generation. Yoruba is not your first language. When you combine most of these local dialects, you would realise that Nigeria has over 17,000 languages. Only a useless generation will keep up with this level of diversity. There are better things to do, .e.g. innovations, military sophistications, etc. than learning or interpreting 17,000 languages. No be like this UK, US, and Canada take develop. The diversity of Nigerian languages emerged from a place of illiteracy, beef, hatred, and disunity. We need a common ground at the end of the day. 4 Likes 1 Share |
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