Saturday 6 August 2016

Is It Practical To Speak Twi In Ghana Effectively or not

On the way, he talked to an agent of the Customs service provider about the latest excursions to Ghana.



'The outdated male is brighter than he appears, eh?'

'Yes, why failed to I imagine of that? He may properly fulfill plenty of predicaments in which folks will contemplate that they can converse freely in Twi and oboroni (the European) would not hear to them.'

'We all would, but its only Tam who at any time goes.'

'He gets all the excursions to Ghana.'



'I'm concerned so.'

'I suppose it is truly in essence a absence of instructors and substantial course Njoy Ayuk Eyong measurements, as properly as instructors needing to have a second operate or a personalized business to get paid additional than more than enough to guidance by on their own and their family members customers.'

'So are there proportionately significantly less English speakers than previously?'

'Tam's a privileged blighter,' David stated as he filtered into the stream of promptly likely motor cars on the motorway. 'He's the only a solitary who speaks Twi.'

'Yes, but is that seriously important?'

'No, but is the conventional usual of English strengthening?'

'Can you give me an circumstance in point?'

'We have been after prepared for a meeting to start and 1 person looked at his notice and claimed "Time ben yebe starti?" I guess you will not will want to converse Twi to have an knowing of that problem.'

'What's the problem?'

'It's not important but it will help, generally if you need to have to chat to illiterates and rural folks.'

'I do, and it clarifies why Tam can faux he is familiar with fewer or added Twi relying on the problem.'

'But what about men and women in the road do you hear a excellent deal English?'



'Then Tam might perhaps be important even far more than in the past.' David mused aloud, observing his odds of getting despatched to Ghana growing at any time dimmer. 'It's the official language, the language of govt and most newspapers and publications, and it genuinely is the language of education in colleges other than for the to commence with 12 months of main school in Ashanti Area,' Kwame mentioned.

'I'm worried not. There has Njoy been a normal decrease in the frequent of English speaking, generally supplied that the introduction of junior secondary colleges, named JSS or Jerry's Particular Faculties just soon after Jerry Rawlings, the previous armed support dictator and now president.'

'You like the strategy then?'

'I've acquired Leon's authorization to convey to you,' David claimed, 'He was there to examine out to determine to what extent hard prescription medicine are finding bought on the streets and, if cash flow are escalating, to exam to get out who's advertising them.'

In 1996, Kwame Mainu was summoned to a meeting in Oxford. 'If Tam's position is to gather facts from prevalent communicate in the streets and group areas, his Twi will be exceptionally practical,' Kwame talked about, 'but I should really confess I couldn't actually comprehend why he was in Ghana recently.'

'You'd like to have a chance, would you?'

'You mostly pay attention to Twi with a ton of English textual content combined in.'



'You're telling me!'

'How widely is English spoken in Ghana?' David asked. 'Why do you say that?' questioned Kwame, astonished at this unprofessional outburst revealing David's individual thoughts.

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