Language barrier

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• Pelicles 9 years ago

  Who or what entity made English an international language and why? I think the English colonizing most nations of the world was a major factor. After "forcing" their will on other nations, they force their subjects to speak t ...
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  Who or what entity made English an international language and why? I think the English colonizing most nations of the world was a major factor. After "forcing" their will on other nations, they force their subjects to speak their language or else.
  
  We in Ghana should use one of our local language in our schools. There are those who will argue that our local languages are useless but let me make one fact clear. Any language is very important and here is one fact.
  
  During the second world war, the Allies under the leadership of the United States, used the NAVAHO language to transmit messages to their field commanders in Europe. Why? So that if the message fall into the hands of the enemies, they will have no clue about what it means.

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• MINOR CASE 9 years ago

  You don't want to incur the wrath of those anti Akan ostriches , do you ? The Akan language unifies us as Ghanaians both in our homeland and in the diaspora. The ostriches will scream their heads off in protest publicly and ...
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  You don't want to incur the wrath of those anti Akan ostriches , do you ? The Akan language unifies us as Ghanaians both in our homeland and in the diaspora. The ostriches will scream their heads off in protest publicly and turn around Nicodemously to burn the midnight candle polishing their knowledge of Akan language.

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• NANA ARABA 9 years ago

  SOME PARENTS OUT OF CHOICE ARE NOT SPEAKING OR DID NOT TEACH THEIR CHILDREN ANY GHANAIAN DIALECT WHEATHER THE FAMILY LIVES IN GHANA OR ABROAD! HOW NONSENSICL IS THAT?
  
  LANGUAGE BONDS THE FAMILY TOGETHER. A LOT OF AFRICANS ...
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  SOME PARENTS OUT OF CHOICE ARE NOT SPEAKING OR DID NOT TEACH THEIR CHILDREN ANY GHANAIAN DIALECT WHEATHER THE FAMILY LIVES IN GHANA OR ABROAD! HOW NONSENSICL IS THAT?
  
  LANGUAGE BONDS THE FAMILY TOGETHER. A LOT OF AFRICANS SPEAK ONLY ENGLISH TO THEIR CHILDREN RIGHT THERE IN GHANA OR ABROAD.. AND TO THOSE PARENTS I SAY SHAME ON YOU! DEPRIVING YOUR CHILDREN OF THEIR LOCAL DIALECT IS DEPRIVING THEM OF A CORE ELEMENT THAT MAKES THOSE CHILDREN GHANAIAN OR AFRICANS.
  
  PARENTS IN GHANA OR ABROAD, DO NOT COME UP WITH EXCUSES AS TO WHY YOU COULD NOT TEACH YOUR CHILDREN THEIR MOTHER TONGUE. RATHER ASK YOURSELF WHY YOU SO WILLINGLY DEPRIVED YOUR CHILDREN OF THEIR LANGUAGE WHICH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF THEIR HERITAGE.
  
  LUCKILY THERE ARE APPS FOR MOST OF THE GHANAIAN LANGUAGES SO IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PARENTS WHO FAILED YOUR CHILDREN BY SPEAKING ONLY ENGLISH OR FRENCH TO THEM, BUY ONE OF THOSE GHANAIAN LANGUAGE APPS AND TEACH YOUR CHILDREN THEIR LOCAL GHANAIAN LANAGUAGE. LANGUAGE IS SO IMPORTANT SO PARENTS STOP DELEBRATELY DEPRIVING YOUR CHILDREN OF THEIR HERITAGE!

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• johny english 9 years ago

  why don't you write in your local Ghanain dialet instead of the international language of English?

  why don't you write in your local Ghanain dialet instead of the international language of English?

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• STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

  C'mon Johny English don't make a full of yourself. The writer may be able to write in his native language if he was to write it rather than using the key-board which do not have the characters of his native language.

  C'mon Johny English don't make a full of yourself. The writer may be able to write in his native language if he was to write it rather than using the key-board which do not have the characters of his native language.

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• Anokwale 9 years ago

  The reality of the world is that English, French and Spanish are the languages you need to make money! Even the Chinese make sure to learn one of those three. We should stop fooling ourselves. The local languages are impor ...
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  The reality of the world is that English, French and Spanish are the languages you need to make money! Even the Chinese make sure to learn one of those three. We should stop fooling ourselves. The local languages are important socially but for business we cannot change history. English, French and Spanish are dominant. This is simple.

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• tolegba 9 years ago

  I don't understand the whole article. Sorry my English is very bad

  I don't understand the whole article. Sorry my English is very bad

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• Kofi 9 years ago

  All these people/or nations developed an alphabet.It took a white German to come and write Twi/Fante for.Secondly if a Brossa native doesn"t want his child to be taught in Asante.Fanti/Ga or Ewe ,are you going to force him to ...
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  All these people/or nations developed an alphabet.It took a white German to come and write Twi/Fante for.Secondly if a Brossa native doesn"t want his child to be taught in Asante.Fanti/Ga or Ewe ,are you going to force him to study in any of these Languages.Do not force Asante on us.Check the number of languages they have in Mexico,Brazil,Ecuador etc.They have settled on one that unites them all.Ivory Coast is as diverse as Ghana yet they do not talk nonsense about French.They even speak English better than some of us.

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• Mr. Douda Mahamadou 9 years ago

  I dont understand you guys. Learning in akan at the basic level will really help kids to get the fundamentals of knowledge. No wonder most Ghanaians can speak good english after school but they cant apply any of what they hav ...
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  I dont understand you guys. Learning in akan at the basic level will really help kids to get the fundamentals of knowledge. No wonder most Ghanaians can speak good english after school but they cant apply any of what they have learnt in school.

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• Mr. Douda Mahamadou 9 years ago

  Moreover why do we still employ chinese people to fix our roads though they cant speak english. Understand knowledge first and be able to apply it. Most foreign contractors and C.E.O's in Ghana cant speak english and yet they ...
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  Moreover why do we still employ chinese people to fix our roads though they cant speak english. Understand knowledge first and be able to apply it. Most foreign contractors and C.E.O's in Ghana cant speak english and yet they are making money out of us. Let us kill that pride in us and be ready to accept truth as it is. Ghana is growing, more graduates each year but nothing better is happening, why? Graduates dont even have the fundamentals to apply all that they learnt in the university.

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