HeWrites:


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

Taofeekdboy:
I was living around GTbank area before I left the country

HeWrites:


That's Ogo Oluwa right?

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

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

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.

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:
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.

Taofeekdboy:
uthor=Babaelemu post=67402073] lol comparing Ugandans English to that of Nigerians it like comparing California City to Ajegunle City. Get lost dude like seriously the way some lecturer in Nigeria still pronounce TURN as TORN, BACK as BARK, CUT as COURT. Like seriously you have a prove?like you are even confusing yourself, you said it earlier that you like their English, bro your argument is baseless because you don’t generalize something you have problem with. The way an educated person will speak English will be different from the way uneducated fellow will....even illiterates in Nigeria still speak good English just that the accent and intonation of speaking. Talk for yourself bro, you are the reason why South Africans look down on us like we re not from the sam e continent..SMH

Babaelemu:
y'all must stop fooling around. I have said the bitter truth but it obvious I can't win this argument.

Well I'm not surprised. I will refer back to my early postt saying we are so stubborn to comprehend admitting something is not right and that's the only right direction to improvement.

What we think, feel and believe is the reason we are not growing as a nation since independence and funny enough it can reflect from everyone of you perspectives who believe we speak good English rather than admitting the truth and possibly blame our educational structures just for a solution.

HeWrites:


Why quoting me when I don't quote or mention your name

Let respect ourselves please

Babaelemu:
no one is looking down on us. We become a bloody fool when we don't know something and admitting we know it better. We don't speak good English you know why? because our educational system is messed from primary to tertiary. That's a prove. please wish Nigeria well by not defending this baseless argument.

Prove is here lost defenders

https://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.africanexponent.com/amp/post/8264-uganda-ranked-the-best-english-speaking-country-in-africa&ved=2ahUKEwiUqbDchvjaAhWkKcAKHWfTC0kQFjANegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3ex_Cx70MnauXgRc96xY4F&ampcf=1

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.

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:
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.

claremont:


I think you are confusing good English with regional variations in accent. There is no such thing as a 'Nigerian accent', there are cultural variations in accent amongst the major tribal groups in Nigeria. The fact that cultural variations in accent exist doesn't mean that the spoken English is bad, it simply means that the way the English language is spoken will vary along cultural lines. This also applies to the UK, there is a wide variation in the way the English language is spoken by the scottish, welsh, irish; and this variation is influenced by their culture. In mainland England, there are also regional variations in spoken English language, those people living in the north of England speak differently from those in the south.

My point to you is that saying Nigerians do not speak good English simply because we pronounce certain words differently from others is a bit too simplistic without factoring in the influence of culture. It's like saying only people who live and studied in Cambridge or Oxford speak 'proper English', whilst at the same time forgetting that the same English is spoken by the welsh, scottish and the irish, albeit a bit differently.

BedLam:
That should tell you his level of understanding. There's even a documentary on CNN that rated Nigerian accent higher. Dude will come here and tell you hogwash.

Taofeekdboy:
well, this will be the last time I will argue with you on this, you referred me to one website where someone just wrote some unconfirmed news and read it very well, it says bbc is yet to confirm that. Just work on yourself bro. At times those British and other English speaking countries might be wrong in constructing proper sentence but because their accent sounds good you won’t notice it..

Babaelemu:
don't make me laugh. I'm not ashamed to say it cos I have our educational system controlled by our government to blame. Basically from experience I think I have improve my spoken English and still learning.

An argument will always go two ways so I really don't expect you to support my motions. I want to believe I have given you all to those who believe we speak good English enough prove to digest from one on one encounter, words of mouth and writes up by other people rather than being bais.

I'm not disputing we don't speak English we do and it our official language but outsiders don't consider our spoken english as a good one point blank.

I love my country and I really wish her well.

Taofeekdboy:
don’t mind the foreign bro who believes he is now in a foreign land and our English is so bad. He should work on his own English before generalizing we Nigerians. I’m even living with a Ugandan and Zimbabwean. I’m even ashamed of this guy because you re now out of the country, you painting your country black.

Taofeekdboy:
do you know why they believe our English is wack, because they think nothing good comes from Africa but if you go out there to show them you can do it then there will be some respect. I said earlier I went for an interview and my interviewer told me face to face that he like my spine English and here other countries used to say they like Nigerian’s spoken English

Taofeekdboy:
uthor=Babaelemu post=67402073] lol[s] comparing Ugandans English to that of Nigerians it like comparing California City to Ajegunle City. Get lost dude like seriously the way some lecturer in Nigeria still pronounce TURN as TORN, BACK as BARK, CUT as COURT. Like seriously you have a prove?like you are even confusing yourself, you said it earlier that you like their English, bro your argument is baseless because you don’t generalize something you have problem with. The way an educated person will speak English will be different from the way uneducated fellow will....even illiterates in Nigeria still speak good English just that the accent and intonation of speaking. Talk for yourself bro, you are the reason why South Africans look down on us like we re not from the same continent..SMH [/s]

Babaelemu:
i[s] said 97% I didn't say all Nigerians maybe or maybe not you speaks well I wouldn't know.

If your interview was a white person obviously he wouldn't say it to your face that your spoken english is poor but rather praise you cos it never in their culture to belittle or make you feel low. But secretly they will gossip about it.

I don't know you and I'm not disputing you don't speak well as presently I will stand on my ground that majority of Nigerians don't speak good English and I rate it high [/s].

Babaelemu:
i said 97% I didn't say all Nigerians maybe or maybe not you speaks well I wouldn't know.

If your interview was a white person obviously he wouldn't say it to your face that your spoken english is poor but rather praise you cos it never in their culture to belittle or make you feel low. But secretly they will gossip about it.

I don't know you and I'm not disputing you don't speak well as presently I will stand on my ground that majority of Nigerians don't speak good English and I rate it high.

Chuchunana:


I think you are confusing good English with regional variations in accent. There is no such thing as a 'Nigerian accent', there are cultural variations in accent amongst the major tribal groups in Nigeria. The fact that cultural variations in accent exist doesn't mean that the spoken English is bad, it simply means that the way the English language is spoken will vary along cultural lines. This also applies to the UK, there is a wide variation in the way the English language is spoken by the scottish, welsh, irish; and this variation is influenced by their culture. In mainland England, there are also regional variations in spoken English language, those people living in the north of England speak differently from those in the south.

My point to you is that saying Nigerians do not speak good English simply because we pronounce certain words differently from others is a bit too simplistic without factoring in the influence of culture. It's like saying only people who live and studied in Cambridge or Oxford speak 'proper English', whilst at the same time forgetting that the same English is spoken by the welsh, scottish and the irish, albeit a bit differently.

Unfortunately the dude (baba-whatever) can't understand half of what you've written. It's appalling when people proudly flaunt their ignorance.
Baba-whatever, if you speak as bad as you write then I can understand why your views are so flawed...

Babaelemu:


Bro I'm still gonna say same thing we don't speak good English.

You hold a Nigerian passport with a degree in English from Nigeria University and I hold ordinary southern African passport. Then we both seek for english teaching Jobs in Asia I can bet with my life that the chances of me getting a job is higher than yours. Even the Asian don't consider us as a english nation but they considered some southern Africa countries.

Google is your friend

grandstar:


You like the sing song Caribbean accent

Taofeekdboy:
Thank you for that explanation.Gracias!!!!!

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.