Using Ghanaian language as medium of instruction in schools

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• SAY IT LOUD ! 10 years ago

  My brothers, are you not thinking(I know you are) that you think that using a local anguage(I wont even ask which!) is going to do us any good.
  
  We have been using this stupid foreign language imposed on us (and we have le ...
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  My brothers, are you not thinking(I know you are) that you think that using a local anguage(I wont even ask which!) is going to do us any good.
  
  We have been using this stupid foreign language imposed on us (and we have learnt it well) for some 150years today, see how well we know it but can't use it yet.
  
  THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE LANGUAGE THAT WE USE BUT THE KIND OF IDIOTS WE ARE IN GHANA. EVEN IF YOU BRING US A "HEAVEN LANGUAGE" OR THE LANGUAGE OF ADAM AND EVE OUR REAL FOREFATHERS, NOTHING WLD HAPPEN. GHANA AND GHANAIANS ARE STUPID AND IMBECELIC AND UNWILLING TO DO ANYTHING.
  
  
  Secondly, which language are we going to use?. Don't tell me Twi because its NOT a sophisticated language at all. Let me tell you that if you line all the about 60 languages of Ghana in list of competency, grammer, words, quality, expression etc. Twi will nt get number TEN.
  
  STOP wasting our time with this idiocy of "using local language".
  If you have been given some money by some "NGO" or aforeign mother-fucker and sister-fucker and even brother-fucker Organisation, give back their mony or wallow in your shame and stupidity.
  
  Mark my words: Using a local langage WILL NOT HAPPEN IN THE NEXT 50YEARS!
  
  When I am in Ghana soon I shall come to your office, so that if you want a national public debate between us, you organize it. I A READY ANY DAY!
  
  Tweaaaaaa !

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• Kweku Donsuro 10 years ago

  Please NDC, stop playing Cinderella with our education system. Tanzania experimented with Swahili and the country became a nation of illiterates and they stopped. Let us learn from the mistakes of others and from the mistakes ...
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  Please NDC, stop playing Cinderella with our education system. Tanzania experimented with Swahili and the country became a nation of illiterates and they stopped. Let us learn from the mistakes of others and from the mistakes of our past. The Minister of Education should conduct empirical research before coming out with zany and weird ideas. If it is not broken, don't fix it.

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• Damo 9 years ago

  Why would you call your own people idiots and imbeciles.What level of self hatred do you.And dont tell me you dont hate yours,because you do.Would you imagine an English person calling his fellow English people idiots and imb ...
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  Why would you call your own people idiots and imbeciles.What level of self hatred do you.And dont tell me you dont hate yours,because you do.Would you imagine an English person calling his fellow English people idiots and imbeciles.I am glad Africa is finally fucking waking up,They invaded us and mentally enslaved us by making us take on their religion and use their language.Africa has her own languages and we should use them to educate our children.

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• Kwabena 10 years ago

  It is a rich flexible language. It is also international

  It is a rich flexible language. It is also international

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• Koffi 10 years ago

  EWE is spoken in Ghana Togo Benin and parts of Nigeria

  EWE is spoken in Ghana Togo Benin and parts of Nigeria

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• Isaac 10 years ago

  Are this so called educationist in Ghana intended to make one of the local dialects the language of the nation? if yes l may that is it now before all the ethnic groups in ghana are going to learn how to speak that particula ...
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  Are this so called educationist in Ghana intended to make one of the local dialects the language of the nation? if yes l may that is it now before all the ethnic groups in ghana are going to learn how to speak that particular dialect? but if no l prefer every ethnic group should her own dialect. But if we want to choose among the lot then "Ewe" is the best.

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• Osu Klottey 10 years ago

  Its not new,we must not make official,do they still teach local languages at schools? Can the children real and write their local languages? Apart from talking ? They should leave it as it is ,rather starting teaching the chi ...
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  Its not new,we must not make official,do they still teach local languages at schools? Can the children real and write their local languages? Apart from talking ? They should leave it as it is ,rather starting teaching the children how to read and write their lokal languages,nobody must talk about national language (Twi)

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• Kwesi 10 years ago

  What the mininster is saying is that every ethnic group should be able to use its language as the medium of instruction, she is not advocating a common language, but Twi will remain a national language whether we like it or n ...
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  What the mininster is saying is that every ethnic group should be able to use its language as the medium of instruction, she is not advocating a common language, but Twi will remain a national language whether we like it or not. It is by reason that over 50 percent of the population use it widely. There is not reason why one should be angry about this. All is well, and we're all one people.

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• Bawku boy 10 years ago

  Two is not spoken at gbagbalanchet

  Two is not spoken at gbagbalanchet

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• Osu Klottey 10 years ago

  You're right

  You're right

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• Bawku boy 10 years ago

  Two is not spoken at gbagbanchet

  Two is not spoken at gbagbanchet

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• jew guy 10 years ago

  The problem with some of you those from the southern part of Ghana is that when you talk of local languages? You are referring to Twi, GA, Fanta, Ewe and maybe one or two dialects spoken in the northern part of Ghana. Note ...
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  The problem with some of you those from the southern part of Ghana is that when you talk of local languages? You are referring to Twi, GA, Fanta, Ewe and maybe one or two dialects spoken in the northern part of Ghana. Note that I am refusing to say north, because there is a northern region. So you cannot just say north and be referring to all three regions up there. In my case, I worked in Kumasi and later in Accra. If it is true that children have a good educational foundation through the use of their local language, how will my children benefit from this policy? They studied Twi as a foreign language just as they studied English as a foreign language. Fortunately for them, all the mathematical symbols, science and other subjects, perhaps apart from cultural studies are better understood in English. The bottom line is that Ghana has become so cosmopolitan that you cannot implement the use of local languages as medium of instruction without putting so many children at a disadvantage. When most of you talk of local language, you only think of Twi. You may dishonestly include GA and Ewe but you really wish Twi would prevail. But I tell you, it will not happen in the nearest future, even though it is the most predominately.

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• Abla 10 years ago

  Jew guy, so if you lived in Kumasi, twi will be the medium of instruction, in Bolgatanger it will be Bolga, in Ho it will be Ewe, in Accra it should be Ga. I don't see what your problem is.

  Jew guy, so if you lived in Kumasi, twi will be the medium of instruction, in Bolgatanger it will be Bolga, in Ho it will be Ewe, in Accra it should be Ga. I don't see what your problem is.

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• akobundu 10 years ago

  A sheer vomiting caused by the bitterness of the old-age Colonisation.

  A sheer vomiting caused by the bitterness of the old-age Colonisation.

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• Nii 9 years ago

  The use of mother tongue as language of instruction does not exclude the learning of English as a lingua franca. A lingua franca is the most widely spoken worldwide and that will be English. The language of instruction is sup ...
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  The use of mother tongue as language of instruction does not exclude the learning of English as a lingua franca. A lingua franca is the most widely spoken worldwide and that will be English. The language of instruction is supposed to be the language a child speaks at home. In Europe, America, etc a child learns a lingua franca and then up to High School he learns and writes his exams in his home language. Britain has 10 languages and other immigrant languages permitted in its education system. Its not just English.

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