This question is specifically meant for Non-Nigerians, though Nigerian opinions are always welcome...
How do you find the Nigerian accent as regards to audibility of spoken English, diction, wordplay and general appeal- basically is it sexy?

Re: Justwise, lalasticlala please do the needful.

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optimusprime2:
This question is specifically meant for Non-Nigerians, though Nigerian opinions are always welcome...
How do you find the Nigerian accent as regards to audibility of spoken English, diction, wordplay and general appeal- basically is it sexy?

Re: Justwise, lalasticlala please do the needful.

have been thinking of saying this before because everywhere we Nigerians go, they will say we don’t need to tell where we’re from because they know our accent, I was even tempted to ask one Ugandan that is our accent bad and he said no, but he is aware of our accent, I think we need to know if it is appealing or bad like u said

Op, you should post this question on another site if you are talking to non-Nigerians because most people here are Nigerian and the vast majority of non Nigerians who come here are decidedly anti Nigerian so you will get biased opinions

Op,
I see someone's a fan of "Transformers"...lol.
It was my brother's favorite cartoon growing up in the 80's....
Anyhow, I think I can basically answer this...I'm an Akata ..lol/Igbo...(Dad's Igbo) who only knows the life of an American...

SO I grew up hearing my dad speak....and folks used to tell us that they couldn't understand him.
I didn't grow up around Nigerians in general (only 1 family in which only the dad was Nigerian...but the kids were born in the U.S.)
I think there has only been maybe 3 times in my whole life where I couldn't understand my dad.
He pronounces words differently than me and my siblings....but I love it.
We always try to tell him that he's mispronouncing the word....or we try to correct him...but he always fights back...lol.
He always says, "You Americans don't know how to speak English!" "I know how to speak proper English" "I was trained well..so don't correct me!"
Of course I laugh at him cause it's all in fun.
But yes....Nigerians do have a very distinct accent...and I can almost always detect it from other African countries.
Of course it's because I grew up hearing it daily....but I love it.
It's so interesting that when I see certain words being written or spoken....it's as if my dad is speaking.
I've had the opportunity to speak with some people on this forum and I'm just in awe as they sound like my dad!
I'm like, "Wow...you just pronounced that word just like my dad!"

I love to hear the different pronunciations of words from foreigners.
I think you guys' accents sound wonderful..but of course I'm biased.
I don't do the "sexy" thing when it comes to an accent or language.
I just love to hear certain foreigners' accents..... (especially black Caribbean Islanders)
Don't worry...you guys sound just fine.
But if you need to work on your diction...just continue practicing...

Mobilia:
Op,
I see someone's a fan of "Transformers"...lol.
It was my brother's favorite cartoon growing up in the 80's....
Anyhow, I think I can basically answer this...I'm an Akata ..lol/Igbo...(Dad's Igbo) who only knows the life of an American...

SO I grew up hearing my dad speak....and folks used to tell us that they couldn't understand him.
I didn't grow up around Nigerians in general (only 1 family in which only the dad was Nigerian...but the kids were born in the U.S.)
I think there has only been maybe 3 times in my whole life where I couldn't understand my dad.
He pronounces words differently than me and my siblings....but I love it.
We always try to tell him that he's mispronouncing the word....or we try to correct him...but he always fights back...lol.
He always says, "You Americans don't know how to speak English!" "I know how to speak proper English" "I was trained well..so don't correct me!"
Of course I laugh at him cause it's all in fun.
But yes....Nigerians do have a very distinct accent...and I can almost always detect it from other African countries.
Of course it's because I grew up hearing it daily....but I love it.
It's so interesting that when I see certain words being written or spoken....it's as if my dad is speaking.
I've had the opportunity to speak with some people on this forum and I'm just in awe as they sound like my dad!
I'm like, "Wow...you just pronounced that word just like my dad!"

I love to hear the different pronunciations of words from foreigners.
I think you guys' accents sound wonderful..but of course I'm biased.
I don't do the "sexy" thing when it comes to an accent or language.
I just love to hear certain foreigners' accents..... (especially black Caribbean Islanders)
Don't worry...you guys sound just fine.
But if you need to work on your diction...just continue practicing...

your dad is very right, Nigerians and Ghanaians speak correct English. Though Americans accent might sounds cool but their english at times?

Taofeekdboy:
your dad is very right, Nigerians and Ghanaians speak correct English. Though Americans accent might sounds cool but their english at times?

Nigerian speaks good what?? Get out of here even the Franco phone countries speaks better than Nigerian. When I was new in South Africa it took me fliping time like 4 years to adjust to simple polite English. Every time I speak they always say what?? what??

Babaelemu:
Nigerian speaks good what?? Get out of here even the Franco phone countries speaks better than Nigerian. When I was new in South Africa it took me fliping time like 4 years to adjust to simple polite English. Every time I speak they always say what?? what??

bro, maybe you have problem with your English, why you people always look down on yourself because you re Nigerian, when u re being inferior to South Africans that’s bad. There is a difference between good English and accent.

Taofeekdboy:
bro, maybe you have problem with your English, why you people always look down on yourself because you re Nigerian, when u re being inferior to South Africans that’s bad. There is a difference between good English and accent.

get out of here, get of Nigeria shores and come back to prove your argument. Good English comes with accent. When you pronounce words like come, can, what, water, love, her, and, must, Fanta, chair, cut, Anthony, missile, and the person you talking to frequently saying excuse me. Then you must know your English is poor. I bet 97% of Nigerian excluding the northerners can't pronounce the words mentioned above correctly.

Babaelemu:
get out of here, get of Nigeria shores and come back to prove your argument. Good English comes with accent. When you pronounce words like come, can, what, water, love, her, and, must, Fanta, chair, cut, Anthony, missile, and the person you talking to frequently saying excuse me. Then you must know your English is poor. I bet 97% of Nigerian excluding the northerners can't pronounce the words mentioned above correctly.

it kind of beats me why Nigeria was colonized by the British, but how come we don't speak like them? As in have their accent.

Spygadgets19:
it kind of beats me why Nigeria was colonized by the British, but how come we don't speak like them? As in have their accent.

because we are lazy mentally, stubborn, less resourceful, we like short cut to success, we don't care about passion we care about survival, our problems weighs us so much down to improve to think logically, to progress. I have been gone for too long but whenever I watch Nigerian movies produced in 2017 I see no goddamn improvement the new generation already inherited the bad lifestyles and ways of life and so they will pass it on. The only solution to our problems we must just start to change the way we reason, think and feel things.

Babaelemu:
get out of here, get of Nigeria shores and come back to prove your argument. Good English comes with accent. When you pronounce words like come, can, what, water, love, her, and, must, Fanta, chair, cut, Anthony, missile, and the person you talking to frequently saying excuse me. Then you must know your English is poor. I bet 97% of Nigerian excluding the northerners can't pronounce the words mentioned above correctly.

Bro, stop generalizing stuffs, the problem might be from your side not all Nigerians. I’m a living witness to that and to what you said up there, I’m not in Nigeria currently, I had my interview and my interviewer told me that he like Nigerians spoken English but our accent sounds funny..gather your fact very well bro and don’t generalize because the fault might be from you.

babaelemu is obviously a teenager filled with self loath.

when u dont know your worth, you'll sell yourself short.

u said northers pronounce english correctly?

buhari calls people fifu and u are endorsing that?

have u heard chinese people speak english?

have u heard indians speak English?

even the french give wrong pronunciation.

i agree we mispronounce a lot of things, we call missile meside, imbe.cile imbecide, those are common errors but or accent cant get in the way of your eloquence.

if v. president osibanjo speaks and donald trump speak who do you think will be rated higher ?

can a bad accent cannot produce a melodious rendition? listen to bez, praize, asa and tell me their accent is substandard .

im proud of my accent, i will only try to pronounce correctly, but i will speak this way till i die regardless of where i travel to.

im black and proud.
im Nigerian and proud
im yoruba and proud
im ekiti and proud.

clitlicker:
babaelemu is obviously a teenager filled with self loath.

when u dont know your worth, you'll sell yourself short.

u said northers pronounce english correctly?

buhari calls people fifu and u are endorsing that?

have u heard chinese people speak english?

have u heard indians speak English?

even the french give wrong pronunciation.

i agree we mispronounce a lot of things, we call missile meside, imbe.cile imbecide, those are common errors but or accent cant get in the way of your eloquence.

if v. president osibanjo speaks and donald trump speak who do you think will be rated higher ?

can a bad accent cannot produce a melodious rendition? listen to bez, praize, asa and tell me their accent is substandard .

im proud of my accent, i will only try to pronounce correctly, but i will speak this way till i die regardless of where i travel to.

im black and proud.
im Nigerian and proud
im yoruba and proud
im ekiti and proud.

correct bro, I’m working with so many foreigners such as Sri- lankans, Indians,British, Australians and Canadians and I can say we speak correct English but our accent sounds funny and they know that we speak correct English, that’s what I said earlier that Nigerians and Ghanians speak correct English. One bad thing that can happen to human being is having low self esteem and inferiority complex. I’m always proud of my country and my accent everywhere I go

Taofeekdboy:
correct bro, I’m working with so many foreigners such as Sri- lankans, Indians,British, Australians and Canadians and I can say we speak correct English but our accent sounds funny and they know that we speak correct English, that’s what I said earlier that Nigerians and Ghanians speak correct English. One bad thing that can happen to human being is having low self esteem and inferiority complex. I’m always proud of my country and my accent everywhere I go

get out of here! Nigerian speaks good English not close in my dreams. Have you ever listened to Uganda, South Africa, Namibia, Seychelles, Mozambique, botwana, Angola, Congolese, Swaziland English? You will trip compare to gibberish we speaks called English. Learning is admitting you dont know something.

Example do you want to compare Nigerian rappers spoken English to the rappers from eastern and southern Africa??

I said it before one of the reason we don't grow is we too stubborn to admit and lazy to learn. When something is bad we admit it and think of solution to it. Deep down where you are you know they don't value our English yet you praising and proud of something that makes everyone of us inferior when it comes to speaking good English.

A white man do not expect you as a black man to speak good English especially if it's not your mother tongue but at least expects you to pronounce words correctly. I can bet with my life majority of Nigerian still cannot pronounce simple basics such as can, mother, cut, further, juice, and, correctly.

We don't speak good English simple we need to learn over to our teachers, leaders and parents.

Babaelemu:
Nigerian speaks good what?? Get out of here even the Franco phone countries speaks better than Nigerian. When I was new in South Africa it took me fliping time like 4 years to adjust to simple polite English. Every time I speak they always say what?? what??

Go and deal with your personal issues, Imposter.

Babaelemu:
[s]get out of here! Nigerian speaks good English not close in my dreams. Have you ever listened to Uganda, South Africa, Namibia, Seychelles, Mozambique, botwana, Angola, Congolese, Swaziland English? You will trip compare to gibberish we speaks called English. Learning is admitting you dont know something.

Example do you want to compare Nigerian rappers spoken English to the rappers from eastern and southern Africa??

I said it before one of the reason we don't grow is we too stubborn to admit and lazy to learn. When something is bad we admit it and think of solution to it. Deep down where you are you know they don't value our English yet you praising and proud of something that makes everyone of us inferior when it comes to speaking good English.

A white man do not expect you as a black man to speak good English especially if it's not your mother tongue but at least expects you to pronounce words correctly. I can bet with my life majority of Nigerian still cannot pronounce simple basics such as can, mother, cut, further, juice, and, correctly.

We don't speak good English simple we need to learn over to our teachers, leaders and parents [/s]

To slap u de hungry me. U are truly messed up bro

peacengine:


Go and deal with your personal issues, Imposter.

for God sake they laugh at our spoken English. Admit it and get out of your cave. Our English is bad but we can learn and improve. Deal with the truth boy

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Nigerian accents also depend on education and class. It's the same everywhere even the native English people. Many don't pronounce words properly due to their level of education, the pace at which they speak and where they are from in England sometimes.
Although, I much prefer the middle English accent over the 'upper class's accent.

I like the educated northern Nigerian accent in both Hausa and English generally, but also the vice president also has a nice accent when he speaks English. I've heard lots of people, especially Americans, say they like the Nigerian accent. It just sounds 'exotic' to them.

What tops it all for me is when a Nigerian speaks pidgin though. Sounds so nice.

Mobilia:
Op,
I see someone's a fan of "Transformers"...lol.
It was my brother's favorite cartoon growing up in the 80's....
Anyhow, I think I can basically answer this...I'm an Akata ..lol/Igbo...(Dad's Igbo) who only knows the life of an American...

SO I grew up hearing my dad speak....and folks used to tell us that they couldn't understand him.
I didn't grow up around Nigerians in general (only 1 family in which only the dad was Nigerian...but the kids were born in the U.S.)
I think there has only been maybe 3 times in my whole life where I couldn't understand my dad.
He pronounces words differently than me and my siblings....but I love it.
We always try to tell him that he's mispronouncing the word....or we try to correct him...but he always fights back...lol.
He always says, "You Americans don't know how to speak English!" "I know how to speak proper English" "I was trained well..so don't correct me!"
Of course I laugh at him cause it's all in fun.
But yes....Nigerians do have a very distinct accent...and I can almost always detect it from other African countries.
Of course it's because I grew up hearing it daily....but I love it.
It's so interesting that when I see certain words being written or spoken....it's as if my dad is speaking.
I've had the opportunity to speak with some people on this forum and I'm just in awe as they sound like my dad!
I'm like, "Wow...you just pronounced that word just like my dad!"

I love to hear the different pronunciations of words from foreigners.
I think you guys' accents sound wonderful..but of course I'm biased.
I don't do the "sexy" thing when it comes to an accent or language.
I just love to hear certain foreigners' accents..... (especially black Caribbean Islanders)
Don't worry...you guys sound just fine.
But if you need to work on your diction...just continue practicing...

You like the sing song Carribean accent

Taofeekdboy:
your dad is very right, Nigerians and Ghanaians speak correct English. Though Americans accent might sounds cool but their english at times?

Nigerian pronunciation is wanting.

Ghanaian is much better

londoner:
Nigerian accents also depend on education and class. It's the same everywhere even the native English people. Many don't pronounce words properly due to their level of education, the pace at which they speak and where they are from in England sometimes.
Although, I much prefer the middle English accent over the 'upper class's accent.

I like the educated northern Nigerian accent in both Hausa and English generally, but also the vice president also has a nice accent when he speaks English. I've heard lots of people, especially Americans, say they like the Nigerian accent. It just sounds 'exotic' to them.

What tops it all for me is when a Nigerian speaks pidgin though. Sounds so nice.

we shared same view even though you didn't shoot straight. When I mentioned Hausa accent is more appealing someone thought I wasn't insane.

"Are you going now? Ok greet your wife and children for me"

hell yeah we speak good English seriously.

I'm still gonna say it again straight up. About 97% Nigerian can't speak good English can't also pronounce correctly. I don't have low self-esteem and I won't defend my father's land on this I'm only being honest. But we can improve by learning.

Babaelemu:
get out of here! Nigerian speaks good English not close in my dreams. Have you ever listened to Uganda, South Africa, Namibia, Seychelles, Mozambique, botwana, Angola, Congolese, Swaziland English? You will trip compare to gibberish we speaks called English. Learning is admitting you dont know something.

Nigerians. Compared. Speak.

Babaelemu:
Example do you want to compare Nigerian rappers spoken English to the rappers from eastern and southern Africa??

Babaelemu:
A white man do not expect you as a black man to speak good English especially if it's not your mother tongue but at least expects you to pronounce words correctly. I can bet with my life majority of Nigerian still cannot pronounce simple basics such as can, mother, cut, further, juice, and, correctly.

Nigerians.

Babaelemu:
We don't speak good English [s]simple we need to learn over to our teachers, leaders and parents[/s].

Taofeekdboy:
Bro, stop generalizing stuffs, the problem might be from your side not all Nigerians. I’m a living witness to that and to what you said up there, I’m not in Nigeria currently, I had my interview and my interviewer told me that he like Nigerians spoken English but our accent sounds funny..gather your fact very well bro and don’t generalize because the fault might be from you.

You resides in Osogbo before you left?

Babaelemu:
we shared same view even though you didn't shoot straight. When I mentioned Hausa accent is more appealing someone thought I wasn't insane.

Of course we know you are.

The person that think you're SANE is the one that has problem.

HeWrites:


You resides in Osogbo before you left?

yes bro, don’t mind this babalemu, I hate it when someone is talking with fallacy. I will say it again we speak correct spoken English but our accent might sounds funny. FYI not only you is outside the country, I work with the Americans,canadians, British and do you know that they like Nigerian spoken English because it is very clear unlike those countries u mentioned such as Ugandans, Somalians, Malawians, and South Africans; they have accent, accepted but they don’t speak correct English bro cause I’m working with them also. It baffles me when you look so inferior to those countries mentioned above because they can even testify to the fact that Nigerians speak correct spoken English. Maybe you might need to work on yourself

Taofeekdboy:
yes bro, don’t mind this babalemu, I hate it when someone is talking with fallacy. I will say it again we speak correct spoken English but our accent might sounds funny. FYI not only you is outside the country, I work with the Americans,canadians, British and do you know that they like Nigerian spoken English because it is very clear unlike those countries u mentioned such as Ugandans, Somalians, Malawians, and South Africans; they have accent, accepted but they don’t speak correct English bro cause I’m working with them also. It baffles me when you look so inferior to those countries mentioned above because they can even testify to the fact that Nigerians speak correct spoken English. Maybe you might need to work on yourself

Cool, I resides there also.

You don't have to argue with the guy.

There's a guy who spoke with a lady in English at a restaurant in China. You need to see the way she's reply him, saying every words one by one. Even her accent is very bad

And someone is here saying our accent is very bad.

I don't want to argue with him that's why I just turn to ghost reader

HeWrites:


Cool, I resides there also.

You don't have to argue with the guy.

There's a guy who spoke with a lady in English at a restaurant in China. You need to see the way she's reply him, saying every words one by one. Even her accent is very bad

And someone is here saying our accent is very bad.

I don't want to argue with him that's why I just turn to ghost reader

really, where in osogbo..r u still there now?

it depends on the speaker..... my English assent is not affected by my tongue(tribe, that the problem most Nigerians hv

Taofeekdboy:
really, where in osogbo..r u still there now?

Dada Estate. Yeah, still there now but planning to leave there by next year.