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Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Konquest: 10:37pm On Aug 17 |
Zee0007:Spanish, Portuguese. But in the meantime a good language translation device comes in handy when I'm traveling internationally. There are also regional variants of Spanish in Latin American countries such as Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, etc. Learning French though would enable you to easily transit into learning Spanish and Portuguese because of the near similarities in words. I find it interesting (after silently scanning through a significant number of pages on this thread) that Hausa and Spanish keep popping up here. Indeed Hausa is easy to learn and doesn't need diacritical marks to understand. I have mad love for folks who speak fluent Yoruba without mixing it with English. The Godfather and 1986 Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka speaks Yoruba very well without mixing with one drop of English and he's very fluent with great diction in speaking English and French. Another urbane gentleman I've seen who speaks Yoruba fluently without code-switching or mixing Yoruba with random English is Steve Ayorinde, a former Editor of The PUNCH newspaper, the former Commissioner for Information & Strategy and later Tourism, Arts and Culture of Lagos State under the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode government who speaks very fluent English with a great diction, and he can give a fluent extempore speech in the Yoruba language for 10 minutes or more without mixing with even one word of English. I'm glad to be a multilinguist though. |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by samonak(m): 10:49pm On Aug 17 |
Spanish |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by JobAndVacancies: 10:50pm On Aug 17 |
Mariangeles:your moniker sounds Spanish though. The "g" in angel is actually pronounced as as "geh" and not "J" I once dated an Hispanic though |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by extremelygolden: 11:01pm On Aug 17 |
Zee0007: Hausa and French. |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Kagarko(m): 11:13pm On Aug 17 |
Arabic Language الغة العربية 1 Like |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Sluacoast(m): 11:26pm On Aug 17 |
So many of them but I promise myself I will let my future kid's learn multiply language They'll travel to foreign land and spend time there Well . I'd love to speak the French language, Hausa and the native Togo language. I'm Nigeria by the way |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by maryscotland: 11:28pm On Aug 17 |
Spanish olamilekan9: |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by youngest85(m): 11:36pm On Aug 17 |
Mariangeles:I can teach you Hausa for free if you have time |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by youngest85(m): 11:37pm On Aug 17 |
ogub:I can teach you Yoruba for free if you have time |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by godofuck231: 11:55pm On Aug 17 |
Icelandic |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by AlfaSeltzer(m): 12:49am On Aug 18 |
Lingala 2 Likes |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by nony43(m): 1:45am On Aug 18 |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by RightChanneI: 3:03am On Aug 18 |
JuanDeDios: I go tell him say na u direct me |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Juliearth(f): 3:12am On Aug 18 |
Mariangeles: If you are fluent in speaking Yoruba, I could teach you Hausa in exchange for learning Yoruba. |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by ObalendeCMS: 4:16am On Aug 18 |
Bini & maybe Hausa. |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Leemzyy(f): 5:52am On Aug 18 |
nony43:Ngwanu |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Leemzyy(f): 6:23am On Aug 18 |
BABANGBALI:Waka,ozour!shioor |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by olurotimi(m): 7:36am On Aug 18 |
Arabic & Spanish 1 Like |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Annahh(f): 7:43am On Aug 18 |
Spanish. |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Normally3D: 8:02am On Aug 18 |
French, Tri, Yoruba, Spanish and finally Uk pigin English.
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Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Unheardyearning: 8:10am On Aug 18 |
Zee0007:I would love to speak Indian language |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Ishilove: 9:32am On Aug 18 |
samijet:I've never heard Ilorin Yoruba dialect. I've been to Ilorin just once, so I'm not familiar with it |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Exceed15: 10:18am On Aug 18 |
I can speak 3 Nigerian languages. What I want to learn is French |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by AmericanIdiot(m): 10:39am On Aug 18 |
CorrectionFLuid: You’re never enough |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by CorrectionFLuid: 10:52am On Aug 18 |
AmericanIdiot: Sharap. |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Advancedman(m): 10:54am On Aug 18 |
Zee0007: WAZOBIA PORTUGUESE LATIN FRENCH DUTCH GERMAN FRENCH AFRICAN |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by BABANGBALI: 10:58am On Aug 18 |
Leemzyy:my love dey shack you. You just dey give me pet names anyhow. Nagode |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by deltaF0SS: 11:05am On Aug 18 |
Money, but I'm gon learn It's a universal language, devoid of stress as our Lingua Franca is English |
Re: What's That Language You Love But Can't Speak? by Mariangeles(f): 11:21am On Aug 18 |
youngest85: Thanks. At least, I know what abinci means. 😀 |
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