Why do you have an accent? You don't sound Lagosian at all bc me i be born and raised Lagosian, even though I'm a medical doctor, currently practicing here in Texas😂 You sound more east African when you speak English 🤔 Maybe i dey wrong sha😂 but your accent when u dey speak English, sounds more Eastern or Southern African 🤔 just my take, no vex😂
Nigerian here, let me give you all a Pidgin Origins So long before Nigeria as a country existed all thanks to King Leopold and the Brits, Nigeria was largely split into civilizations and Empires. And the Portuguese had conquered trade and the oceans and one place they came to was the coastal regions of Nigeria and Warri Kingdom in the 1600s, was one of them. Which seats in the South Southern region of modern Nigeria. The Portuguese came to trade weapons-guns, mirrors and humans and so did our people too. Warri was originally called Iwerre and was formed in 1420 by an Itsekiri royalty, Prince Ginuwa, but due to lack of proper communication it was called Aweri (you can see how the name changes). The lack of communication brought about the invention of pidgin, earlier forms of pidgin took on Portuguese origins which one interesting word is Sabe, and in pidgin we say Sabi, which means "to know". The Nigerian pidgin has evolved from that over the centuries inculcating the three major languages into its vocabulary and forming what we now have now. Also I'd like to say the true pidgin isn't spoken as it used to be years ago and this is because the use of slang is overtaking the essence of the Nigerian pidgin. The Nigerian Pidgin has varying vocabulary depending on the state, Warri (Delta state) being the origin, you also have pidgin in Bini (Edo State) and Port Harcourt (Rivers state), which has a more distinctive pidgin than the others. Lagos state also has its own pidgin but it's a potpourri of the other three as well as other regions bearing theirs. I should add that Nigerian Pidgin isn't Broken English because it's its own language and has a grammatical structure. Also the Nigerian pidgin shares some similarities with the Jamaican Patwah/Patois 🇯🇲 by virtue of slaves from South East Nigeria (Igbos) to the West Indies Pidgin is also tonal as one word can have several meanings; Ehen-shocked Ehen-surprised Ehen-observational Ehen-sarcasm Some words in Pidgin and it's meaning in English and Patois 🇬🇧 People 🇳🇬 Una, Pipu, dem | 🇳🇬 Igbo: Umu 🇯🇲 Unu, dem 🇬🇧 Child 🇳🇬 Pikin 🇯🇲 Pikni 🇬🇧 Plenty 🇳🇬 Bokku, nyafu-nyafu 🇬🇧 Portuguese 🇳🇬 Potogi 🇬🇧 Angry 🇳🇬 vex 🇬🇧 Throw 🇳🇬 Throway 🇬🇧 Buttocks 🇳🇬 Nyash 🇬🇧 Trouble/Problem 🇳🇬 Wahala 🇬🇧 Foolish 🇳🇬 Mumu 🇬🇧 White people 🇳🇬 Oyibo 🇬🇧 Are you mad? 🇳🇬 You dey craze? 🇬🇧 What's wrong with you? 🇳🇬 Wetin dey worri you? 🇬🇧 What's good, What's up? 🇳🇬 How far, Wetin dey sup, I know say una don understand wetin I don tok so for di pidgin matta so. Make una no go tok say pidgin na broken English oh. Welcome to my TedXPidgin Talk. I hope we've all learnt something today. Much love from 🇳🇬🇳🇬
You hit the nail fam … me as a Nigerian, I can understand patwah to a good extent all I have to do is listen carefully because it has similarities with pidgin
So true, PH has a different kind of pidgin, which we all understand though. There’s also Ikom in Cross River pidgin which most popular don’t know. If you listen to it. It’s so sweet. But most Nigerians just know what they know.?
As a Nigerian 🇳🇬🇳🇬 who grew up in Warri and schooled in Benin (the South - Niger Delta region of Nigeria where the purest and strongest Pidgin is spoken), which was confirmed by the ladies in the video, I must say that I am very proud of both ladies. They represented well. ❤❤
Kenyan here. Thanks to the scale of Nollywood, most Black Africans either have grown up watching Nigerians speaking english, pidgin and their native languages or know someone who has. Personally, I can say Nollywood movies were played on all our mainstream media stations be it NTV, Citizen or KTN. We love seeing and hearing Nigerian culture, art and language. Imo the government should standardise pidgin english into formal Nigerian english and make it the official language of state.
Nope that will drastically reduce the number of indegenous language speakers further just as English has. Besides it's not our native language per say. It's a localized version of a colonial language.
I agree with you. Since the independence of Nigeria, no language has United Nigerians like Pidgin. People have been speaking up about the need to standardise Pidgin. The problem is that not until long ago, Pidgin was seen as the language of touts, criminals, prostitutes and societal misfits. We were punished for speaking English in school. These are some of the reasons why people are against making it official. However it has gradually gained popularity and acceptance over the years, thanks to the entertainment industry (Nollywood, Nigerian songs and stand up comedy). It has become our identity. 😊
How do you know they didn't grow up in Nigeria? The girl from warri speaks pidgin well. She was just making it easy for them. The other girl doesn't speak it well, but that doesn't mean. Not everyone in Nigeria speaks pidgin. If you didn't grow up in a core pidgin speaking state, there is a good chance you wouldn't speak it or speak it well. Like this girl, I grew up in Lagos and didn't speak pidgin until I went to the Uni in Benin as an adult.
Big kudos to this channel for a very accurate and proper representation of Pidgin English here And bringing someone actually from the south, just perfect 🤌🤌
( in Pidgin 🌝) throw gbosa to Una for dis channel for ogbonge repping of Pidgin for dis side To even to see pesin wey truetrue be South, d tin just wam🤌🤌
Everywhere good but that "pidgin English" dey vex me commot am 🤺, which one be Pidgin English, why e no be Pidgin hausa abi pidgin edo , abi na only English dey the thing, 🤺 *Nigeria pidgin* chikena
I really enjoyed learning Pidgin English for this video! This was one of my favourite times with the gang at World Friends. Glad no one has cancelled me yet for trying the accent ❤
You always had that "Don't worry, I got it" look, but ended up messing it up, and it's so funny. I always loved it when it got to your turn.😆 Big ups, man.
That's not how that works. You need to offend people to be cancelled. You were being adorable. If you were being mean or rude then people would be justifiably upset.
At 14:25 she’s so right about us thinking outside the box because how do we explain to non Nigerians that “god abeg barb me this style” or “chai see hairstyle” means I wish this good thing also happens to me?
@thekingsownkidive seen the list, many are dialects, infact that "500" is never complete, EVER in list format. You're just quoting what you heard repeated "500 languages, 250 ethnic groups" meanwhile many are dialects and its less. Only the 250 ethnic ones is near the number yet many are subgroups listed of an ethnicity probably compiled in colonial times. For example, Awori is subgroup of Yoruba but listed as a "tribe" in one post like that amongst others and everybody was just correcting and correcting. This is why you barely see the list of the so called ethnicities and languages.
Nigeria is not the only country in west Africa that speaks pidgin it was adopted on the coastal cities accross Africa countries like Ghana , Sierra Leone and many others speak their own version of it .Nigerians are known for it due to their huge population and how they proudly speak it wherever they go but no, it's not just spoken in Nigeria .
@AnimeeHintspidgin was formed in Nigeria you fool other west Africans countries adopted it from naija the Portuguese and Nigeria formed pidgin during trade before y’all adopted it country like Ghana pidgin was never a thing from the beginning pidgin came to Ghana early 2000s the only country that I can say speak pidgin like Nigeria is Cameroon because southern Cameroon used to be Nigeria
@AnimeeHintswe are not the only country who speaks it because you clearly said we speak it proudly where ever we go what does that tell your dumb head ??? That’s it’s our language the rest of y’all just want to feel among because why don’t you speak it outside your countries ?? Whenever Nigeria make things popular everbody wants to shine with it also just rest Cameroon speaks pidgin because they used to be Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia speaks creole and Ghana copied pidgin from naija finish I remember clearly when pidgin entered Ghana in 2000
The Nigerians there nailed how and where pidgin began!! Very excellent explanation of how and where Pidgin began (Delta and Benin). The Portuguese came to Nigeria en route to those two places, and as you can see, there are so many Portuguese words in pidgin, AS WELL AS Edo/Benin words in the Portuguese language!! Well done, ladies from Nigeria!!!
It belongs to the stretch between the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Biafra inclusive, where the highest number of slave ports for the Trans-Atlanric Slave Trade were located. Pidgin English was the language of the Slave Trade which was it's primary purpose; a very crude and base mix of a few simple Portuguese words, a few simple English words, and local indigenous languages. This is the history people always leave out!
He's also obsessed ABOUT BEING WHITE. Jeez. USA white people exist in such a microcosm of not being able to relate to ANYTHING outside of their skin. They think "white" is a thought or something. Meanwhile, there are white people, Indians, etc. who speak pidgin & even African languages fluently.
I don't know why, I feels Sophie just made it cute and adorable when she's saying all the sentences with a Pidgin English accent and I can't blame Gaga when she having a hard time not to laugh and having a hard time not to breaks character when she turn around and stares at Mitch when he tried to say the Pidgeon English's sentences that he received from Sophie 😅
The Sentence they were struggling with "If person work hard but no get sense, e fit still carry last" Just means if a person works hard but is not smart, he or she will fail in life.
@richmoney789 sooo do you really wanna talk about it on a video about laughter, light hearted moments and cultural exchange?? Cause we can unpack and get really nasty with the inter-national dirty linen.... In fact right now in Ireland there's a big hub bub about a Nigerian family that used a fraudulent SA passports to worm their way to Ireland and don't want to be deported back to Nigeria...
And while u talking about the 1 Nigerian life lost, please also bring up all the thousands of South African lives that Nigerians are ending through human trafficking of little kids! Selling of drugs to kids and youth. Getting those same drugged and addicted girls and boys to join prostitution rings and the boys, enforcers for their "black axe" criminal syndicate.... All this, by the way, is not unique to South Africa... Nigerians are running these same plays in Europe, Asia and even South American nations... Many of those states have started banning and restricting Nigerian travel to their states...
@richmoney789 also talk about the hundreds of South African women who are in foreign jails right now because their Nigerian pimps, made them drug mules.... Of the less than 3k south Africans imprisoned abroad, most of them are young women and they are imprisoned for drug trafficking!!! Meanwhile in comparison, the giants of Africa, have millions of their people in jail's globally. In SA alone, almost 12K of the over 25K foreigners in our jails, are Nigerian...
Kudos 👍🏾👍🏾World friends, you guys did a great job this time around by selecting Nigerians 🇳🇬🇳🇬 who grew up in Nigeria and are very much familiar with the country and language, unlike in the past when we had Nigerians who grew up in the USA and knew very little about the language and culture.
As a Nigerian, born and bred in Warri, the seat of pidgin language, I studied English language in school but my project was on the grammatical structure of Nigerian Pidgin spoken in Warri. It was a great pride for me
The " How Far" lingo is relatively recent in Pidgin lexicon. You would hardly hear it amongst Pidgin users of 60 years and above. I would say it's a new generation or "hip" aspect of Pidgin. Confirm this from any of Local Nigerian TV shows of the 70s and 80s: "Baba Sala" "New Masquerade" "Jagua Half-Hour" etc
Finally, Nigerians that actually know pidgin English. The others cluelessness was really pissing me off. I lost it in one of their videos, where one girl said up nepa means they have taken light🤦♀️😂😂😂
Everybody who isn't Nigerian in this video including the editor thinks "don" is "don't" and it's just ruined the whole video. Don is like "done" in Aave. "I don chop" is "I have eaten"
i lived in lagos for 10-11 yrs of my life before moving to UK and my pidgin is still strong because even aftre coming to UK i hv Nigerian friends and thats how we speak to each other
@amarachianyimyeah but the pidgin in the video so far is not too deep. And she is exaggerating it. I'm from the south by the way and I have been to Lagos. Didn't really any big difference except with some slangs. She's acting like people in Lagos are too English 🙄
The beauty of pidgin is, it is a creative and expressive language that is not inhibited by technical rules of grammar. Of course, the fact we say pidgin is not inhibited by strict rules of grammar does not necessarily mean the absence of commonse sense grammatical rules. I can give one example here: I drove to Ojota yesterday to meet you but you weren't at home. Now in pidgin, you can say: 'I drive enter Ojota nah come meet you but you no dey house'. 'I drive enter' is basically telling you the action has already happened. Past tense (drove). Unlike English or any other language, you can express the same action in so many ways in pidgin and anyone who speaks pidgin will understand what you are saying: Younger people might add a bit of slang to same expression: O'l boy, I match pedal reach your area, but you no dey around '. Another person might say: I carry moto come your house, I no see you'. And yet another person will say 'I fall in for your side but I no come see you', and someone else will also say : I been dey there but you no come dey house'. Pidgin sweet ehn 😂
I love the way Pidgin sounds. Sounds like a cooler, more poetic and understated version of English. Hope to learn more about Pidgin and other Afro-English dialects in future episodes of WF.
I’m the Naija girlie on the right. This was so much fun 😄. Thanks for having me. Love you lots 🫶🏽🫶🏽
U did great
😂well done, I feel you
Why do you have an accent? You don't sound Lagosian at all bc me i be born and raised Lagosian, even though I'm a medical doctor, currently practicing here in Texas😂 You sound more east African when you speak English 🤔 Maybe i dey wrong sha😂 but your accent when u dey speak English, sounds more Eastern or Southern African 🤔 just my take, no vex😂
Not like us
@tidatmg9610 ok? 💀
Finally our video is out 🎉💃💃 I’m the Naija babe on the left , thanks for having me it was so fun love yall 🥰🥰
Great Video!
ABEG marry oyinbo make we have more light skin naija children
Caucasian abi Asian 😊
You did a nice job there
You did so well,you rep the pidgin wella
Thanks you for mentioning delta state ❤
The South African babe is just having a great time 😂
Shes always so full of energy I love it
Yeahhh
She loves money 😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣😂 where in that sentence did he hear “sister”?😂😂🤣🤣
@judithwilliam8224was so surprised 😂
The scottish guy giving a thumbs up after saying absolute rubbish is always funny 😂
I'll love to hang out with that guy 😅
I swr Omo non of them dey get it maybe the USA girl is getting it a little
That South African babe is a real life of the party
Like she is too proud sort of no offense 😂😂😂😂😂
The Scottish guy is the culprit, he dilutes it before it even go across. The South African lady came with lots of energy. Loved it 😂❤.
As in …the confidence with which he delivers THE WRONG SENTENCE every time, is giving me life!😂😂😂
nooo he tried his best, the canadian lady lowkey didn’t even try 😭😭
@vroxxzz😂😂
But he tried with his accent😂❤
@haytreesshe's already gets a completely wrong sentence usually lol
Nigerian here, let me give you all a Pidgin Origins
So long before Nigeria as a country existed all thanks to King Leopold and the Brits, Nigeria was largely split into civilizations and Empires.
And the Portuguese had conquered trade and the oceans and one place they came to was the coastal regions of Nigeria and Warri Kingdom in the 1600s, was one of them. Which seats in the South Southern region of modern Nigeria.
The Portuguese came to trade weapons-guns, mirrors and humans and so did our people too.
Warri was originally called Iwerre and was formed in 1420 by an Itsekiri royalty, Prince Ginuwa, but due to lack of proper communication it was called Aweri (you can see how the name changes).
The lack of communication brought about the invention of pidgin, earlier forms of pidgin took on Portuguese origins which one interesting word is Sabe, and in pidgin we say Sabi, which means "to know".
The Nigerian pidgin has evolved from that over the centuries inculcating the three major languages into its vocabulary and forming what we now have now.
Also I'd like to say the true pidgin isn't spoken as it used to be years ago and this is because the use of slang is overtaking the essence of the Nigerian pidgin.
The Nigerian Pidgin has varying vocabulary depending on the state, Warri (Delta state) being the origin, you also have pidgin in Bini (Edo State) and Port Harcourt (Rivers state), which has a more distinctive pidgin than the others.
Lagos state also has its own pidgin but it's a potpourri of the other three as well as other regions bearing theirs.
I should add that Nigerian Pidgin isn't Broken English because it's its own language and has a grammatical structure.
Also the Nigerian pidgin shares some similarities with the Jamaican Patwah/Patois 🇯🇲 by virtue of slaves from South East Nigeria (Igbos) to the West Indies
Pidgin is also tonal as one word can have several meanings;
Ehen-shocked
Ehen-surprised
Ehen-observational
Ehen-sarcasm
Some words in Pidgin and it's meaning in English and Patois
🇬🇧 People
🇳🇬 Una, Pipu, dem | 🇳🇬 Igbo: Umu
🇯🇲 Unu, dem
🇬🇧 Child
🇳🇬 Pikin
🇯🇲 Pikni
🇬🇧 Plenty
🇳🇬 Bokku, nyafu-nyafu
🇬🇧 Portuguese
🇳🇬 Potogi
🇬🇧 Angry
🇳🇬 vex
🇬🇧 Throw
🇳🇬 Throway
🇬🇧 Buttocks
🇳🇬 Nyash
🇬🇧 Trouble/Problem
🇳🇬 Wahala
🇬🇧 Foolish
🇳🇬 Mumu
🇬🇧 White people
🇳🇬 Oyibo
🇬🇧 Are you mad?
🇳🇬 You dey craze?
🇬🇧 What's wrong with you?
🇳🇬 Wetin dey worri you?
🇬🇧 What's good, What's up?
🇳🇬 How far, Wetin dey sup,
I know say una don understand wetin I don tok so for di pidgin matta so. Make una no go tok say pidgin na broken English oh.
Welcome to my TedXPidgin Talk. I hope we've all learnt something today. Much love from 🇳🇬🇳🇬
I understood everything
😮 Loved reading this as a Nigerian
Throwey or throway is actually 'Throw away'.
Good job!
You hit the nail fam … me as a Nigerian, I can understand patwah to a good extent all I have to do is listen carefully because it has similarities with pidgin
Canada girl is fighting for her liiiiiifffee 😂😂😂😂😂
10:34 Oh yeah baby ..
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂Honestly, no be small thing oo😂
The telephone is breaking with white boy in blue
Her whole life!!! LOL! But I give her respect for trying!
The SA lady is so much fun to watch 😂
The Scottish guy also putting in so much energy into it 😂
I swear 😂❤
The pidgin here is still mixed if they spoke proper pigdin or the ph one, no one will understand 😂
So true, they were doing it for their benefit 😂
So true, PH has a different kind of pidgin, which we all understand though. There’s also Ikom in Cross River pidgin which most popular don’t know. If you listen to it. It’s so sweet. But most Nigerians just know what they know.?
As a Nigerian 🇳🇬🇳🇬 who grew up in Warri and schooled in Benin (the South - Niger Delta region of Nigeria where the purest and strongest Pidgin is spoken), which was confirmed by the ladies in the video, I must say that I am very proud of both ladies. They represented well. ❤❤
@VickkyMama Yes oo. Na true you talk 👌🏾
My naija person I site u.
Area!
@Isonpoint Eehh ! I throway salute 🫡
BenDel people 🎉🎉🎉🎉
bad as e bad, na bracket first warri go carry 😀
Kenyan here. Thanks to the scale of Nollywood, most Black Africans either have grown up watching Nigerians speaking english, pidgin and their native languages or know someone who has. Personally, I can say Nollywood movies were played on all our mainstream media stations be it NTV, Citizen or KTN. We love seeing and hearing Nigerian culture, art and language. Imo the government should standardise pidgin english into formal Nigerian english and make it the official language of state.
Nope that will drastically reduce the number of indegenous language speakers further just as English has. Besides it's not our native language per say. It's a localized version of a colonial language.
Well your opinion is horrendous.
Standard English is far better. Communicate with both Nigerians and every one
Yes ...even in some African french countries what they know Nigerians for is actually Nollywood
@olajong2315 I didnt say dead standard (British) English, I simply said top priority should be Nigerian English
I agree with you. Since the independence of Nigeria, no language has United Nigerians like Pidgin. People have been speaking up about the need to standardise Pidgin. The problem is that not until long ago, Pidgin was seen as the language of touts, criminals, prostitutes and societal misfits. We were punished for speaking English in school. These are some of the reasons why people are against making it official. However it has gradually gained popularity and acceptance over the years, thanks to the entertainment industry (Nollywood, Nigerian songs and stand up comedy). It has become our identity. 😊
Finally Nigerians that grew up in Nigeria🎉🎉🎉🎉
I doubt,they don't sound like it
They didn't grow up here, they tried though
How do you know they didn't grow up in Nigeria?
The girl from warri speaks pidgin well. She was just making it easy for them. The other girl doesn't speak it well, but that doesn't mean. Not everyone in Nigeria speaks pidgin.
If you didn't grow up in a core pidgin speaking state, there is a good chance you wouldn't speak it or speak it well. Like this girl, I grew up in Lagos and didn't speak pidgin until I went to the Uni in Benin as an adult.
@preciouseniola6417the one on the right commented that she grew up in lagos
@FranciscaValentine they both said they did
7:24 I’m deadddd she said “ohhhh oh” and still got it wrong 😭😭💔
Broooooo😂😂
Shes eager bless her
Likeeeeeeee😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@fivelions6854😭😭😭
L
Am Nigerian and honestly I definitely a fan of the Scottish guy, he tried so hard to even add finesse to the pronunciations, I love it 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I know say wahala go dey from the beginning 😂
Wahala not dey finish for dis kind of mata
Before nko? 😄😄 You see oyibo pipu dey try speak pidgin, how wahala no go dey?
@kennethmfon6828some oyibo and Nigeria oyibo dey make dey finish work for pidgin oh
You guys are just speaking it to confuse people, lol
@youme1414 i swr
Mitch was really putting his heart into getting the accent right 😂😂😂
Big kudos to this channel for a very accurate and proper representation of Pidgin English here
And bringing someone actually from the south, just perfect 🤌🤌
( in Pidgin 🌝) throw gbosa to Una for dis channel for ogbonge repping of Pidgin for dis side
To even to see pesin wey truetrue be South, d tin just wam🤌🤌
@TheJackPaago👍
I wish the subtitle was done by someone who knew Pidgin or at least reviewed 😅. Cuz don is not don't
@AtomController E join! Not be every time e go dey be say we go use pidgin for title. Shey be you know say dis na for oyinbo dem
Everywhere good but that "pidgin English" dey vex me commot am 🤺, which one be Pidgin English, why e no be Pidgin hausa abi pidgin edo , abi na only English dey the thing, 🤺
*Nigeria pidgin* chikena
South African girl’s laugh is reminding me of home ❤ she was fun man
The south African girl
RePairs the accent after the third guy she is trying 😂
I swear. She tried
I really enjoyed learning Pidgin English for this video! This was one of my favourite times with the gang at World Friends. Glad no one has cancelled me yet for trying the accent ❤
Thanks for also learning our language - Check out my "How To Learn Pidgin" book so you learn swiftly and easily
You always had that "Don't worry, I got it" look, but ended up messing it up, and it's so funny. I always loved it when it got to your turn.😆 Big ups, man.
@JajaofAfricaLMAO, no we don't.
That's not how that works. You need to offend people to be cancelled. You were being adorable. If you were being mean or rude then people would be justifiably upset.
Great seeing you on there
The two nigerians were very knowledgeable of Pidgin. It was good
I won't say "very"
@tok1879I will say VERY
@VickkyMamaReally? Cool!
@VickkyMamayou try well well
I WON’T say very either. The one on the left seems versed in pidgin, the one on the right dey guide
That south African lady is soo fun
😂😂
Is she not a he?
The Nigerians ladies did so well with the explanations. Fun to watch
At 14:25 she’s so right about us thinking outside the box because how do we explain to non Nigerians that “god abeg barb me this style” or “chai see hairstyle” means I wish this good thing also happens to me?
Or the different variations of the “shame wear me armoni carpel in a brand new packaging” or “goosebumps of shames just dey my body” 😭
Ọmọ this is my own first time hearing goosebumps of shame oo🤣
@sakurachan9088lol😂😂 pidgin sweet die
@euchariajob2900too sweet
@AmeenRidwanme too ooo but e don enter my vocab sha
The Scottish guyy is so funny😂😂
love him
Such a vibe! 😹
Scots usually are.
He's cool
Scots are always fun to be with. Have a bunch of them as my colleagues here on Canada
10:34 Canadian girl accidentally made an innuendo and she realized it but no one else caught it 😂
Yeah I saw that too. It went over all their heads😂
loved that part, made me laugh a lot!
I had to pause the video to laugh finished. 😂😂
Hehehe... Shey be na the word wey start with c?
@youme1414 wetin innuendo omo una dey speak big word i no understand o
As a Nigerian I can tell y’all that the two Nigerian ladies did a phenomenal job in this episode❤
Thank youuu
I am Nigerian and I told my British classmate about it and he didn't get it 😂😂😂
RUclips captions translating pidgin to pigeon is stressing me out 😂😂😂
😂😂
It's the Scottish dude for me 😂😂😂
He has a wife
@iamnotXasinnah
The Canadian when she hears any word she is like "oh no they go Finnish me again" 😂😂
The way the SA lady whistled after hearing the number of languages in Nigeria 😂😂 3:09
😂😂😂😂😂
Most are dialects called "languages"
@windsurfer8824 No, they aren't dialects actually independent languages.
@thekingsownkidive seen the list, many are dialects, infact that "500" is never complete, EVER in list format. You're just quoting what you heard repeated "500 languages, 250 ethnic groups" meanwhile many are dialects and its less. Only the 250 ethnic ones is near the number yet many are subgroups listed of an ethnicity probably compiled in colonial times. For example, Awori is subgroup of Yoruba but listed as a "tribe" in one post like that amongst others and everybody was just correcting and correcting. This is why you barely see the list of the so called ethnicities and languages.
@windsurfer8824 Dialect is still a language for being the sub-language though
Lmao when the South African girl shouted, "Money money money!"
Luv her
Warri Wado who dey naaa
Canadian girl: gasp! You know a lot. You're really smart.
American guy: Ma'am I have a wife.
He was quick with it too
Oops! Didn't notice that 🤦🏾♀️🧐😳 akward...
both Nigerian girls are so beautiful! in Serbia I would also say, put in on my head 😅
Nothing got past the Scottish dude 😂😂
😂😂
The scotish guy really loves the nigerian accents😂😂
The Us guy was like " I don't think am useful here " 😂😂😂
Nigerian here 🇳🇬 ❤, I really enjoyed this ❤, I laughed too much 😂😂 that first man is hilarious 😂
As a nigerian, I'm loving seeing how other countries try to pronounce pidgin. So hilarious, im loving it
7:50 basically work smarter not harder 😂🤣
Yess naa your head dae dia😅
Yes😂
yeah bro you got it
Bro the Scottish guy Mitch made this so freaking funny and the south African girl 😂❤
This third guy in 11:35 said God DON'T butter my bread 😂😂😂
5:50 shots fired 😭😭
Ikr? 😭 I was tryingggg my hardest to get it right for the culture
@VickkyMamayou killed it girl 😂I love your confidence sweet 😊😅
Non Nigerians are really going to struggle with this
Nigeria is not the only country in west Africa that speaks pidgin it was adopted on the coastal cities accross Africa countries like Ghana , Sierra Leone and many others speak their own version of it .Nigerians are known for it due to their huge population and how they proudly speak it wherever they go but no, it's not just spoken in Nigeria .
The pidgin nigerians speak is different from the one other west african countries speak @AnimeeHints
@AnimeeHintscry
@AnimeeHintspidgin was formed in Nigeria you fool other west Africans countries adopted it from naija the Portuguese and Nigeria formed pidgin during trade before y’all adopted it country like Ghana pidgin was never a thing from the beginning pidgin came to Ghana early 2000s the only country that I can say speak pidgin like Nigeria is Cameroon because southern Cameroon used to be Nigeria
@AnimeeHintswe are not the only country who speaks it because you clearly said we speak it proudly where ever we go what does that tell your dumb head ??? That’s it’s our language the rest of y’all just want to feel among because why don’t you speak it outside your countries ?? Whenever Nigeria make things popular everbody wants to shine with it also just rest Cameroon speaks pidgin because they used to be Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia speaks creole and Ghana copied pidgin from naija finish I remember clearly when pidgin entered Ghana in 2000
The South African girl's laughter is making my laugh,to laugh ...always 😂
The south African babe is so sweet. Scottish guy is the Culprit
I love how detailed the Nigerian ladies are! So brilliant!💕
i think if the Southafrican was seating directly close to the Pidgin lady the transmission would have been better
The Nigerians there nailed how and where pidgin began!! Very excellent explanation of how and where Pidgin began (Delta and Benin). The Portuguese came to Nigeria en route to those two places, and as you can see, there are so many Portuguese words in pidgin, AS WELL AS Edo/Benin words in the Portuguese language!! Well done, ladies from Nigeria!!!
I literally blushed when they got the back story right! ☺️
@humanperson-247 You are not alone, me too! I was like whaaaaat, yes, yes, yes!!!!!
It belongs to the stretch between the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Biafra inclusive, where the highest number of slave ports for the Trans-Atlanric Slave Trade were located.
Pidgin English was the language of the Slave Trade which was it's primary purpose; a very crude and base mix of a few simple Portuguese words, a few simple English words, and local indigenous languages.
This is the history people always leave out!
@rominiyi1385 Ok, you are also correct!! There was some CONVERGENCE of people around those areas, correct!!
that guy made sure to mention he was married almost immediately, just in case 😄0:38
He's also obsessed ABOUT BEING WHITE. Jeez. USA white people exist in such a microcosm of not being able to relate to ANYTHING outside of their skin. They think "white" is a thought or something. Meanwhile, there are white people, Indians, etc. who speak pidgin & even African languages fluently.
@devastormy😂😂😂😂😂😂
@d@devastormy 🤣
@devastormythat wasn't even the msg. 😂😂. What's with you??
They just cut it that way - see the cut? It came out really funny.😅
The guy just keeps saying "I'm so white" 😭
The moment I saw the thumbnail I clicked in 0.2 sec. Love Nigera ❤❤🇳🇬🇳🇬
Love u tooo❤❤
Love you too ❤
9:24 Clock it 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻😂
😅😅
I don't know why, I feels Sophie just made it cute and adorable when she's saying all the sentences with a Pidgin English accent and I can't blame Gaga when she having a hard time not to laugh and having a hard time not to breaks character when she turn around and stares at Mitch when he tried to say the Pidgeon English's sentences that he received from Sophie 😅
Nigeria pidgin to the worldddddd🤭🤭✨
The South African sister is such a vibeeeee 😂🥰
The Sentence they were struggling with "If person work hard but no get sense, e fit still carry last" Just means if a person works hard but is not smart, he or she will fail in life.
Lol I knew the “don” confused them 🤣🤣🤣
I'm South African and I have a Nigerian friend but I don't understand a word when he speak pidgin...but it's interesting language ngl😅
Aren't you guys killing nigerians there?
@richmoney789 sooo do you really wanna talk about it on a video about laughter, light hearted moments and cultural exchange?? Cause we can unpack and get really nasty with the inter-national dirty linen.... In fact right now in Ireland there's a big hub bub about a Nigerian family that used a fraudulent SA passports to worm their way to Ireland and don't want to be deported back to Nigeria...
And while u talking about the 1 Nigerian life lost, please also bring up all the thousands of South African lives that Nigerians are ending through human trafficking of little kids! Selling of drugs to kids and youth. Getting those same drugged and addicted girls and boys to join prostitution rings and the boys, enforcers for their "black axe" criminal syndicate.... All this, by the way, is not unique to South Africa... Nigerians are running these same plays in Europe, Asia and even South American nations... Many of those states have started banning and restricting Nigerian travel to their states...
@richmoney789 also talk about the hundreds of South African women who are in foreign jails right now because their Nigerian pimps, made them drug mules.... Of the less than 3k south Africans imprisoned abroad, most of them are young women and they are imprisoned for drug trafficking!!! Meanwhile in comparison, the giants of Africa, have millions of their people in jail's globally. In SA alone, almost 12K of the over 25K foreigners in our jails, are Nigerian...
Oya, show make i teach you small.
This third is cause he's murdering this pidgin😂😂😂😂
What is crazy is despite the slight distortion when it got to the final stage, she was able to decode what the right thing was
Pidgin English is clearly very poetic in nature. That means it is full of figures of speech.
*Nigerian pidgin* not pidgin English
It’s what? Pidgin French? Pidgin English wey all of us “Anglo” West Africa dey speak, e reach your turn you dey fence am say na “Nigerian Pidgin”
@airsayNa still our English....go rest😏😏
Their impressions of pidgin sounds cute😅
Kudos 👍🏾👍🏾World friends, you guys did a great job this time around by selecting Nigerians 🇳🇬🇳🇬 who grew up in Nigeria and are very much familiar with the country and language, unlike in the past when we had Nigerians who grew up in the USA and knew very little about the language and culture.
Happy to represent!!! Thanks to World Friends~
they went to the headquarters of pidgin sef
As a Nigerian, born and bred in Warri, the seat of pidgin language, I studied English language in school but my project was on the grammatical structure of Nigerian Pidgin spoken in Warri. It was a great pride for me
Abobi, who dash una seat? 😂😂 Your pidgin dey learn work where Benin people for dey! No go loose guard dey misyarn ooo! 😅😅
“God don butter my bread” the Canadian girl turned it to an idiom expression 😂😂😂
The Scottish guy is so cute 😂😂😂 he’s really trying.
Canadian gurl is struggling 😂😂😂😂
Mitch and Gaga would make a great duo in a comedy
ha ha’ ha Wahalla Dey oooooo😅😅😅
The South African is my spirit animal😂
I like the South African lady😂
She’s a whole vibe..:she always stands out in many of these videos she’s in, and she’s been in plenty
@thandisilec835 literally
7:36 man was almost there...but he decided to enter iyana iworo😂😂
😂😂
Na dis kind tin dey gimme joy 🎉
Google translate ate on this comment!! 😂👌
I swear 😂
@priscillaidahosa4795what can I say 😅
"God don butter my bread"
Canada girl: I'll go...butter my friend
😂😂😂
I love the South African lady. She's a happy person. She reminds me of my South African friends 😊
Gaga is a mood 😂❤❤
That *HOW* *FAR* is the best code in Nigeria. It can mean anything between two people.
You right
The " How Far" lingo is relatively recent in Pidgin lexicon. You would hardly hear it amongst Pidgin users of 60 years and above. I would say it's a new generation or "hip" aspect of Pidgin. Confirm this from any of Local Nigerian TV shows of the 70s and 80s: "Baba Sala" "New Masquerade" "Jagua Half-Hour" etc
Finally, Nigerians that actually know pidgin English. The others cluelessness was really pissing me off. I lost it in one of their videos, where one girl said up nepa means they have taken light🤦♀️😂😂😂
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The South African babe is a vibe!
The southy is such a vibe,love her😂😂😂
Everybody who isn't Nigerian in this video including the editor thinks "don" is "don't" and it's just ruined the whole video. Don is like "done" in Aave. "I don chop" is "I have eaten"
They got the caption wrong so I was confused too until the lady actually said it isn't don't but don which I then assumed was done.
'"Don" in Nigerian Pidgin English is both 'has' and 'have' and it depends on the subject not the object.
@youme1414yeah
That's what it sounds like ... they don't speak the jargon
As a Nigeria I’m cringing as they’re saying it 😂😂
We all think is doooonth oooo 😂 13:11
😂😂😂
😂
She is the highlight 😂😂
She is soi funny
The sister took a straw bullet by the scottish guy lol
The SA girl is just having fun 😂😂😂😂😂
The way she said the South has the ‘best’ pidgin like there’s a Pidgin Olympics 😭
Dis Wan nor rich to kwarel. One love ❤
Not that deep
i lived in lagos for 10-11 yrs of my life before moving to UK and my pidgin is still strong because even aftre coming to UK i hv Nigerian friends and thats how we speak to each other
I don't know why the girl is forming as if Lagosians don't speak strong pidgin
@chinasasunnyjoe You can't compare it with the people who started at it. The South speaks it best, and that is a fact.
@amarachianyimyeah but the pidgin in the video so far is not too deep. And she is exaggerating it. I'm from the south by the way and I have been to Lagos. Didn't really any big difference except with some slangs. She's acting like people in Lagos are too English 🙄
your head dey there!!
@chinasasunnyjoerealllll
I’ve lived in Lagos all my life and I speak pidgin fluently
Guy in black jacket is always the problem 🤦♂️
He completely switches things up 😅
Exactly.
He keeps getting the pronunciation wrong. He should have been put at the end
He keeps getting the pronunciation wrong. He should have been put at the end
@elson.1990it's expected rest
@Naa__adorkor He sucks!!
The beauty of pidgin is, it is a creative and expressive language that is not inhibited by technical rules of grammar. Of course, the fact we say pidgin is not inhibited by strict rules of grammar does not necessarily mean the absence of commonse sense grammatical rules. I can give one example here: I drove to Ojota yesterday to meet you but you weren't at home. Now in pidgin, you can say: 'I drive enter Ojota nah come meet you but you no dey house'. 'I drive enter' is basically telling you the action has already happened. Past tense (drove). Unlike English or any other language, you can express the same action in so many ways in pidgin and anyone who speaks pidgin will understand what you are saying: Younger people might add a bit of slang to same expression: O'l boy, I match pedal reach your area, but you no dey around '. Another person might say: I carry moto come your house, I no see you'. And yet another person will say 'I fall in for your side but I no come see you', and someone else will also say : I been dey there but you no come dey house'. Pidgin sweet ehn 😂
Very sweet
The South Africa Lady is the one missing the words more😂😂
I knew every phrase ,Thank you Africa Magic
Looool
African magic na broken not pidgin oo real pidgin will throw you off😂😂
@OlajideEstherS no dont say that🤣🤣. I was so proud of myself thinking i got pidgin down😭
@OlajideEstherSAfrican magic is pidgin, wetin U dey talk, so anything wey no be warri pidgin, no be real pidgin?
@Shekinah_AteezAfrican magic is pidgin, don't mind him
8:36 The first guy is always changing everything...then from him everything down spirals from there 😆😆
I hope WF can get representatives from Jamaica to demonstrate Jamaican patois. 😃
The Scottish and SA lady are really having fun. More of this with other nationality ❤😂❤😂❤😂
“Abeg wait small, no rush me.”
Rush am like Russia 😂
I love the way Pidgin sounds.
Sounds like a cooler, more poetic and understated version of English.
Hope to learn more about Pidgin and other Afro-English dialects in future episodes of WF.
I fit run am for you if you go drop something 😂
@Viralplatoon my broda relax, nah - na so dem dey do am? “Drop something” 😂😂😂
@vroxxzz You can imagine.
@vroxxzzhow u take do am guy 😂