YungMillionaire:
Foolish Nigerians. U na carry colonial language for head like gala. For once make a youtube video about a real Nigerian language, not the one that was forced on your ancestors and used to steal, rape, and plunder your land.

BinamRex:


English is our lingua franca and a global language. I have cousins working in the UK and the US because of their competence in English.

Chimamanda Adichie, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, etc are renowned because of their works in English. They could have written their novels in Yoruba or Igbo, but they chose English. Do you know why? I bet your dumbass doesn't know why. Artists from anglophone countries are more famous than their counterparts from francophone, lusophone, or Arab countries. Do you know why?

Do you know why Nollywood is now the world's second-largest film industry? It's because of English. Black people from the Caribbean are learning about African culture from Nollywood movies. Black people in the diaspora made Nollywood popular. And it's all because they understood English.

I am from Gombe state and my tribe is cham. We are not more than 200k in my community. If I make a video about my language, who would want to learn it? Go and tell the government to stop using English. Go and tell pastors to stop preaching in English.

The fact that you chose to criticize my video using English shows how dumb you are. I won't let you make me feel I don't love my culture or language. Cow!

BinamRex:


English is our lingua franca and a global language. I have cousins working in the UK and the US because of their competence in English.

Chimamanda Adichie, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, etc are renowned because of their works in English. They could have written their novels in Yoruba or Igbo, but they chose English. Do you know why? I bet your dumbass doesn't know why. Artists from anglophone countries are more famous than their counterparts from francophone, lusophone, or Arab countries. Do you know why?

Do you know why Nollywood is now the world's second-largest film industry? It's because of English. Black people from the Caribbean are learning about African culture from Nollywood movies. Black people in the diaspora made Nollywood popular. And it's all because they understood English.

I am from Gombe state and my tribe is cham. We are not more than 200k in my community. If I make a video about my language, who would want to learn it? Go and tell the government to stop using English. Go and tell pastors to stop preaching in English.

The fact that you chose to criticize my video using English shows how dumb you are. I won't let you make me feel I don't love my culture or language. Cow!

BinamRex:


English is our lingua franca and a global language. I have cousins working in the UK and the US because of their competence in English.

Chimamanda Adichie, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, etc are renowned because of their works in English. They could have written their novels in Yoruba or Igbo, but they chose English. Do you know why? I bet your dumbass doesn't know why. Artists from anglophone countries are more famous than their counterparts from francophone, lusophone, or Arab countries. Do you know why?

Do you know why Nollywood is now the world's second-largest film industry? It's because of English. Black people from the Caribbean are learning about African culture from Nollywood movies. Black people in the diaspora made Nollywood popular. And it's all because they understood English.

I am from Gombe state and my tribe is cham. We are not more than 200k in my community. If I make a video about my language, who would want to learn it? Go and tell the government to stop using English. Go and tell pastors to stop preaching in English.

The fact that you chose to criticize my video using English shows how dumb you are. I won't let you make me feel I don't love my culture or language. Cow!

ItooWorWor:

You don't have to attack him to make your point, because that was his own point of view same way yours is different. My is also different, we don't have to pronounce those words same way the Brittish or Americans pronounce theirs, our pronouncation of those words doesn't mean we are wrong or right.

YungMillionaire:
Foolish Nigerians. U na carry colonial language for head like gala. For once make a youtube video about a real Nigerian language not the one that was forced on your ancestors and used to steal, rape and plunder your land.

SegFault:

You don't have to attack what? The slowpoke obviously insulted him so op decided to pay him in his own coin, even naptu2 and budatuum dey change am for people so why should op be different.

ItooWorWor:

No he didn't attack the ops, he only said foolish Nigerians and I don't think the op foolish unless he considers himself one.

SegFault:

It was an attack on the op simple Nd short. End of discussion.

ItooWorWor:

You don't have to attack him to make your point, because that was his own point of view same way yours is different. My is also different, we don't have to pronounce those words same way the Brittish or Americans pronounce theirs, our pronouncation of those words doesn't mean we are wrong or right.

BinamRex:


If you studied oral English in school, you should be able to pronounce English words correctly. Nigerian newscasters and some Hollywood actors and actresses pronounce English words correctly. They didn't fall from the sky. They are Nigerians.

There are American missionaries in Jos. They didn't just learn how to speak Hausa and other local languages, they learnt how to pronounce the words correctly. Learning how to pronounce a word like a native speaker doesn't meant adopting the speaker's accent.

Frand Edoho of Who Wants to be a Millionaire pronounces English words correctly. Does he sound like a white man? You can pronounce English words correctly without sounding like a white person.

ItooWorWor:

Not everyone can pronounce the English words correctly, even those who went to school not to talk of those that didn't.

It's just have to do with individual practice and concentration, been taught oral English in school doesn't mean you will be perfect in English words pronouncation.

Tohsynetita1:

Oral were taught to pass, not to employ. You will hear teacher saying 'in your exam' during class . Is learning only for exam?

Tohsynetita1:

Oral were taught to pass, not to employ. You will hear teacher saying 'in your exam' during class . Is learning only for exam?

seanwilliam:
If I were you , Yung--Millionaire, I’ll jejely deactivate bro.. omo the guy finished u no be s.. I know your heart go Dey beat faster like that .. u one mess him , the guy gave you a correct lashing just pray this thread no reach front page oo . Na only God know how u go Dey feel now Btw binamrex, u have a good point sha

YungMillionaire:


you no well I swear. I should deactivate because of banter on a faceless forum?

Calm down joor. I did not respond because the guy's colonial brainwash is too far gone to be rescued.

Casper21:
Nigerians need to understand that English is a foreign language and not a language of ours. I swear nobody no fit dare correct my English cos they will face a very big backlash. We carry English on the top head still we never achieve anything. See Asian countries wey no dey speak English dey beat America in technologies.

BinamRex:


Ignorance is expensive. Asia is the biggest market for English teachers. In a few years from now, it is estimated that the people who speak fluent English in China will exceed the population of the United States. The craze for English in Asian countries is not something I can make you understand. Just do a google search.

Asian countries like Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc have English as a compulsory subject in their schools. And to teach English in these countries, one needs to have a degree and a TEFL certification. Thousands of Africans, including Nigerians, are teaching English in Asian countries.

Do you even know that some universities in China and non-English speaking countries like China, Poland, Ukraine, Poland, Japan, Hungary, etc offer degree courses that students are taught entirely in English? What does this tell you about the importance of other advanced countries but in the English language?

Do you know that companies in non-English speaking countries are adopting English as their official language? Japanese cosmetics giant, Shiseido, has adopted English as an in-house language. The company said internal documents will be written and meetings will be conducted in English for its roughly 2,500 employees in Japan.

Japanese, e-commerce giant Rakuten, introduced an English-only policy in 2010.

Japanese carmaker, Honda, made English its official language in 2020.

I am not making this up. These are information you can verify. Google "Teaching English in Asian countries" and you'll be amazed.

Parents in Asian countries believe that their kid's proficiency in English will give them an edge in life. That's why English centers are springing up in so many Asian countries.

Your comment shows that you know next-to-nothing about how rapidly the world is changing. Check out the "English Proficiency Index" on google and you'll see that citizens of non-English speaking countries like Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Singapore, etc speak better English than Nigerians where English is a de facto language. Your post reeks of ignorance. Educate yourself about the world.

Casper21:


Will u get paid for this ur long writeup? Ode

YungMillionaire:
Foolish Nigerians. U na carry colonial language for head like gala. For once make a youtube video about a real Nigerian language not the one that was forced on your ancestors and used to steal, rape and plunder your land.

edoairways:
Ironically you express yourself in colonial language

YungMillionaire:


Expressing yourself in English is not the same as carrying it on your head like gala.

edoairways:
It is the same thing.

ItooWorWor:

No he didn't attack the ops, he only said foolish Nigerians and I don't think the op is foolish unless he considers himself one.