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I don't speak Twi, but in my opinion, Delay speaks perfect English. For the benefit of people like me, she mixes her Twi with a lot of English and sometimes, swhe goes full blast with the English language when she interviews ...
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It is a shame how we look down at people in Ghana who speak their own language.A friend was verbally abused in Accra for speaking Twi on his cell phone.At this stage in our development our trained language experts and linguis ...
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How can we ever move forward when we have to do and express everything meaningful in a foreign language. Up till this day I don't even know the Twi name for "germs" and "viruses". Please, don't attempt to explain in Twi that ...
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DELAY DONT KNOW ENGLISH, THATS THE HABIT OF ASANTE PEOPLE, THEY DONT GO TO SCHOOL, HOW CAN SHE SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH ON THE MEDIA?, AFTER ALL SHE CAME FROM A VILLAGE IN ASHANTE REGION, FOKN PEOPLE!
LOOK AT THE POPULATION OF THE ASANTES IN GHANA AND OVERSEAS
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Good one deloris
Enoa no no!
Indians were colonised by the British buh they use their own language in doing everything.
Because they selected among their native languages one (Hindi) to be made official language in addition to English.
There is a guy in Toronto, Canada, called Okyeame Tabiri. If you listen to this guy speak Twi at our functions as MC, you will throw your bogus English away and go learn Twi tuit-de-suite.
We cannot remain mentally coloniz ...
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Da sad part is those who hv not visited airport but parade themselves as non Ghanaians.smetimes they make it look like if u cant speak English,u are not "in town".
Inferiority complex has eaten us,always condemn our own and embrace the west,wen will ghanians think hmmmmm
Does the Queen of England speak Twi? Nonsense the idea that someone needs to speak English to show elitism. Absolute rubbish. Is Twi not a language just as English?
I applaud You Deloris, "me Ma wo amo" Porto Kasa 3ny3 y3 Kasa. The worst are those with Locally acquired foreign accent ( LAFA). Even Nigerians pride themselves as better in speaking English than Ghanaians. Now you can imagin ...
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That silly girl, Delay, needs to get $36 today (5 monthly payments) and go over on www.hsn.com to buy "Rosetta Stone Language Learning System - Levels 1 to 5". the cost for today only is 80%+ less than the usual cost for such ...
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U are animal
First of all there is no shortage where women period are concerned and yes this does include black women unless your counting mental intelligence, I'll have you know that black women are far from stupid & most are single by c ...
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We are under neo colonialism. We to used our own language.
Why are you wearing broni waawu
She was a literature student and could speak good english! Pls allow her
She's real.. that's all. It sure doesn't put money in her pockets. .u madd? ??
I blame those so-callled stupid celebrities who allow themselves to be interviewed in Twi when they are trying to reach a global audience.
It is a disgrace that the government allows this stupidity to go on. We all live in ...
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Kwame Nti USA or whoever you call yourself.
Please check your grammar below.
"In my humble opinion, she is has no vision and can only do those stupid interviews in Twi.
I am a Ghanaian, I live in downtown NYC perha ...
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Tony, you just fell into the same trap you were avoiding. You write up and arguments for speaking Twi are good but not logical. Asking you where you come from, you expect the answer to be Ghana and by extension you should spe ...
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Tony, your rationale is crass, ignorant and overly simplistic....you should know better. No one in his/her mind is underestimating the overall importance of our mother-tongues. Our local languages define us; they are the main ...
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Stupid man,when was the last time any so called celebrity who spoke English reached a global audience.
Kuraasenii Kwame Nti in USA. What do you idiot want the government to do, arrest people for speaking Twi?
Do you dumbass fool live in USA? The TV station Delay conducts her interview is a privately owned station. If they w ...
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Kwame Nti USA or whoever you call yourself.
Please check your grammar below.
"In my humble opinion, she is has no vision and can only do those stupid interviews in Twi.
I am a Ghanaian, I live in downtown NYC perhaps ...
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Baby girl i think u Rock...
do ur thing...
all those ass holes who are jealous of u
given u bad raps , pls stay the hell away from them. to me u are doing just fine. lol !!!
We ghanians we don't want our kids to learn our local language but I always feel proud of the Mexicans they speak the Spanish with their kids bcos they say when they go to school they will learn to speak english
Globo hw many foolish girls like Delay in ur family.Think before u talk stupid fool.
I salute you Delay, is only ghananians that don't respect their own language, now some collages in America are doing twi, speak English to your fellow ghananian and they will start marking your grammer, that's why we what we ...
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The point is not speaking English but this lady has become very arrogant,cocky and conceited. She thinks,she is a God and her style of asking questions or the way she interviews her guests is out of the books and very primiti ...
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Why the jealousy and hatred ?. The the sky is the limit, that's why nobody knows you, what have you acomplished ? at list she have her own Tv show , GO GET SOME SLEEP.
well said
our politicians only use English language with big grammar when stealing States money when Ghanaians catch them to confuse us but when dey r Sharon de mone,dey use twi to express themselves nonsense.
u see all dese ghanaian celebrities n dey cant speak their own dialect n dey re proud wen u ask dem dey say oh i was born in canada, london,GYIME mosua mo kurom kasa
GHANAIANS HAS BEEN BRAINWASH SINCE SLAVERY . HOW MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES SPEAKS ENGLISH AS THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE ??? ALL THIS COUNTRIES DON'T BUT THEY ARE DOING FAR BETTER THAN 3RD WORLD COUNTRY GHANA AS FOLLOWS HOLLAND , DENM ...
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EVEN I DON'T EVEN HERE ANY GHANAIAN SPEAKING ENGLISH CORRECTLY. THEY ALWAYS BEET THEMSELVES WITH THE TENSES. ASHANTIS SPEAK TWIGLISH NOT ENGLISH
GA'S SPEAKS GALISH
EWE. WEGLISH
NZEMA. ZEGLISH
DAGBANI. GBAGL ...
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There is no country around the globe that has been able to advance in technology by speaking another man's language so leave the lady alone.
Smart woman, we should ALL model after you!!!
Dont mind them dear
Mi p3 di3 wu y3 nu, is all brain wash by the slave or colonial masters and dont blame them much bcos is been 400 yrs and hope we start learning and acknowledging our own bcos that can bring better understanding and help inven ...
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My dear Delay, you cannot even expressed yourself in English, say the truth and shame the devil.
yet she has more money than u...What has English done for u??..Using the local dialect is working for her...just allow her
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Ghana is not England or America or Canada etc.we are defined by our beautiful languages which the Londoners,Americans Canadians etc lacks and we can't trade it for nothing.whoever is not comfortable with our local languages ...
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delay is 100% right ,english is not our mothers Language.
DELAY CAN'T SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH ANYWAY.
SHE EVEN STRUGGLES TO SPEAK BAD COMMON SENSE ENGLISH, SO THIS DAMSEL SHOULD FUFF OFF
Masa be careful of wat u r saying.luk at China,they use their own native language in doing everything and now see how they have developed.u are in USA so u don't care abt ur country.i pray dat u understand de girl kk
I admire this young woman for her courageous believes and self esteem. Twi/Akan has being recognized by UN and international community as language.
I find this girl rude and arrogant. She is not professional too. She sometimes ask silly questions which she is not supposed to.she better go to China to see Chinese paying big money for English lessons. I hope she on ...
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I live in Germany, and only German is spoken here..People who speaks English, learnt it on their own... We can also speak our dialect and chose to learn English on the side..Where is the problem?
All THOSE CRITICIZING THIS GOOD LOOKING GHANAIAN lADY ARE MOSTLY, TRUST ME ARE PEOPLE WITH LOW LIFE AND CAN NOT SPEAK THIS AKAN LANGUAGE
Delay or what ever stupid name it is speak English language in your interview kakra wai because the twi interview is too primitive u said u sturdied literature in high school what school i want to know bcuz wu ye kurasi nii p ...
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