Tales from the muse 👁 -Language skills.


  


Language skills 


Õ dighi agbanwe agbanwe x3
O tu  Įdi ka Įdi na mbu. 🎶

Find a friend or neighbour who can sing this and ask them to teach you what it means. Hint: it’s a praise song.

  Years ago when I was in primary four and learning this language, the teacher asked for a volunteer to read the passage for the lesson from the Igbo reader book. Students sat down quietly and wouldn’t do it so I volunteered. I was fairly new to the community and everyone knew that  but I still stood up and read. I knew what Ha ji nku efe efe meant. I just struggled with the intonation because in all languages, sometimes the one word can mean other things, depending on the inflection. As I sat down after reading, I could see  my fellow student's faces. They were not impressed. The teacher on the other hand overruled them all by jumping off her seat in glee and told me I read it very well for someone who wanted to try, that it was excellent. I sat down to the loud applause she commanded. It became one of the the best days of my life as she also handed me a prize: kwuli kwuli money for break time. I made an effort to learn more after all the positivity and faith and encouragement she showed me that day.  She also bought me exercise books for the term  much later and I thank God for her. You can only learn such positivity and faith, encouragement and breaking away from popular opinion from Heaven above. God bless our teachers.  Her class became my home away from home. Chukwu gozie gi, Mrs. Nwazojie. : ) :) ;)




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