Being bilingual is cool as shyt. It's like my brain is bigger than the average man

[GrindtooFilthy]

Igbo, centralized dialect (the kind they teach in schools)

I could always understand it, but never spoke it when I was young. Parents wanted us to "succeed" so they spoke only English around us.
Yeaaars later, I had to teach myself.



Now my parents are mad at me cuz I don't speak their dialect

You had 20+ years to teach me, now you mad cuz I say dalu around you?



But my igbo is getting really . Most of the 9ja people my age only know "biko" and "kedu"

tufiakwa

how you only gone know biko and kedu and you grew up in 9ja, shyt i dont speak igbo but my parents speak it too me all the time and i understand everything. it's actually fukkin weird that i only respond to them in English whereas with my granparents i speak full igbo

when people from cross rivers, delta, and rivers state speak igbo tho im like which new language is this it dont sound like igbo

currently trying to learn spanish and arabic

Can you write in Igbo too? I've been teaching myself how to speak both of my parents' dialects but I still have no clue how to write it.

i can but not like my sis, my sister writes with all the annotations that shyt looks fukkin brazy

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

@The Wave where you from specifically? i barely hear any new dialects around my here

 

[dennis roadman]

I have family of the prior generation that speak local languages and none of them taught us

When I meet young Africans, I often ask them how many languages they speak as part of my job, and they almost always say 2: colonial dialect and English

Same with Chinese (but swap out colonial for Mandarin) and latinos

Yet when I press further I find out they speak like 2-4 local languages but they don't consider them in the same light

 

[BigMan]

I have family of the prior generation that speak local languages and none of them taught us

When I meet young Africans, I often ask them how many languages they speak as part of my job, and they almost always say 2: colonial dialect and English

Same with Chinese (but swap out colonial for Mandarin) and latinos

Yet when I press further I find out they speak like 2-4 local languages but they don't consider them in the same light

language is an inherently political matter. the more i learn about languages and linguistics the more obvious that is

In fact, most "languages" are actually groups of dialects within a dialect continuum with an acceptable standard (usually of which one or a few are chosen by a government as "correct"). i googled Igbo after reading The Wave's posts, turns out its really a group of 20 plus dialects

 

[flea]

She knows 4. But I'm always gonna attract women with high level intellect that obey me. Your bytch withholding p*ssy if you leave a sock in the bathroom stop it.

I can't fukking wait for your Get Married Brehs story

 

[Athenna]

I speak three : french, english and creole but creole isn't recognized as an official language so...

My spanish is getting there though.

 

[BigMan]

I speak three : french, english and creole but creole isn't recognized as an official language so...

My spanish is getting there though.

Haitian Creole? That's a language b

 

[Athenna]

Haitian Creole? That's a language b

Nope, Guadeloupean.

 

[dennis roadman]

language is an inherently political matter. the more i learn about languages and linguistics the more obvious that is

In fact, most "languages" are actually groups of dialects within a dialect continuum with an acceptable standard (usually of which one or a few are chosen by a government as "correct"). i googled Igbo after reading The Wave's posts, turns out its really a group of 20 plus dialects

It's fascinating how it's the water of culture

It makes the study of linguistics, language teaching, language recovery, all compelling

I have family who moved to Europe about 100 years ago from North Africa and I found out recently one of the original immigrants devoted his whole life to Esperanto

 

[Mowgli]

I can't fukking wait for your Get Married Brehs story

I've had a woman make a fool outta me but on some get married bruhs shyt?

You must be outchow rabid ass mind.

I woulda got married sooner if I knew it was gonna be this smooth but I know brazillian Jiu-jitsu so life was destined to be simplistic for me and nikkas like you destined to be scrambling to pick up filthy clothes off the floor when you hear wifey's keys jingling to the door

 

[BigMan]

Nope, Guadeloupean.

bonswa mon cherie

It's fascinating how it's the water of culture

It makes the study of linguistics, language teaching, language recovery, all compelling

I have family who moved to Europe about 100 years ago from North Africa and I found out recently one of the original immigrants devoted his whole life to Esperanto

yeah allthough i'm not bilingual, i have become interested in languages recently. you're from Brazil right?

 

[Athenna]

bonswa chérie an mwen

Byen bonswa.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Yeah, knowing another language makes you want to learn more languages. It's fun to be able to communicate in another language and someone asks what you were speaking. I'd love to learn Tigrinya and Orominya first and then more African languages like Wolof or Swahili. Since those languages are nearly as accessible for me I'm slowly teaching myself Spanish and Portuguese.

 

[dennis roadman]

bonswa mon cherie

yeah allthough i'm not bilingual, i have become interested in languages recently. you're from Brazil right?

More or less I was adopted by a Brazilian family

If you have a passion for it, you can learn a language easily, just go for it

 

[BigMan]

Byen bonswa.

lmao thanks for the correction. how similar/dissimilar is Haitian Creole to Guadeloupean Creole?