hey guys today I have a special guest on
my channel and you want to give us a
short introduction of yourself um my
name is Jerry that's what most of my
friends call me i'm a student at the
same school as this guy over here I've
been here for about two years nothing
much but I'm just here to get a degree
nothing special yeah sounds good so I
have a couple question for you based on
the English being spoken in Nigeria
and the difference between like Nigerian
English and American English
okay that sounds good yeah what is the
official language in Nigeria the
official language for us is the British
English right so we speak British in
English yeah why is that so what's the
factor that makes Nigeria and
english-speaking nation ah I feel like
most countries in Africa either speak
English or French right but because we
were colonized by the British hence why
we speak English what kind of English do
you learn in school oh we learn we learn
British English although we do have a
Nigerian form of English that we call
broken English but that's not taught in
schools i'm going to usually learn those
in communities right but schools are
against you speaking broken english
official British English fair enough
yeah does that mean you really do use
those British English like vocabulary
wise or pronunciation wise
yeah I mean you have to speak in British
English on a day-to-day basis because
you're basically speaking to people who
are from different ethnicities right so
the easiest way to communicate with
everyone is to have one common English
language that everyone understands
alright that's cool is there any
difference between American English and
Nigeria English so to speak I mean for
the most part there is because British
and American English has different words
that they use to describe different
things right and then there's also the
difference in maybe past tense for
instance where the Americans would say
learned the British would saying learnt
right where the American would say a
trunk of a car the British would say the
boots of a car so there are different
words in different ways that words are
made I would say or phrased up and
the way british english is used in a
day-to-day basis in American okay the
most part it's pretty much the same
thing alright cool yeah do you mind um
kind of talk about the broken English
I'm kind of curious okay so uh broken
English or as we like to call it pidgin
English is basically English but it's
like we mumble or we not really mumble
sorry it's more likely break some words
apart and then use local words mixed
combined so if that kind of mean it is a
dialect it's it's more it's more or less
a code language I would say because it's
like instead of me saying I want to go
to the bathroom i would say in pidgin
English I dey go bathroom so it's like
it's like it's English but it's it's
messed up with right it's like it's
played around with you've almost
experimented in the sense that it's not
English that will make sense to every
single person so it's kind of like
abbreviated yeah exactly it's almost
like crushed down
this very simplistic form right now
anyone can understand okay give me like
an example sentence just use that ok ok
particular so um we call we call eating
chop so if instead of saying I am
eating I would just simply say I dey chop
wow so it's like very simplified very
you know minimalized so it's it's almost
easier people find it easier to
understand right then the broader
english language I get it but at the
same time I feel like it's also
important to kind of like learn English
language in school that's why I don't
really get it when you're speaking to
people from Nigeria I was like wait are you
speaking English and he was like speaking
something weird I was like wait that's not
what I notice of English yeah yeah yeah
that's yeah it was kind of off yeah but
it's definitely something intriguing
yeah I really wanted to try the pigeon
in video yes so can you give me like a
really short sentence that I can try out
so if you would say I want a glass of
water you just say I want water
don't don't add a glass of just I want
water and someone would understand what
you mean so it's like I want water
I want water no I feel like that's more
like English not English American
English like you basically don't say
the what do you say that like a glass
a glass of yeah you don't say
I just want water I want water
okay how about I'm going home I'm going
on we would i would say I dey go house go
house I dey go house yeah I mean for the
most part it sounds right it's like I
dey go house I I dey go home and you go
how I dey go house I feel like it's saying I
did go house no no no I dey dey
go house I dey go house so it's like I dey
go house and you actually spell it
differently yeah yeah yeah a lot of
things with smell different Wow yeah
so like okay when you're a texting your
nigerian friend yeah you know if if
we're in the mood yes the text in pidgin
English we texted in english oh foreal
who are in the mood to my regular that
is saying that we technology I didn't
know that yeah yeah definitely something
that is very often it's much more local
dough than it is in schools because a
lot of schools will tell you that it's
not good English yeah you know so you
shouldn't I mean language is not really
I I want to take language is something
that you have to be strict about yeah
language is always changing yeah like
evolving all the time so basically
America English we have planes and stuff
and it's just like so intriguing you use
at a time as long as you use it all the
time that means it is actually a
language that you're you're using I re
what it counted what you are using for
it yeah yeah one hundred percent agrees
yes what do you think about American
English and British English like do you
like it or what do you think is special
about American English between British
and American English I mean to me I feel
like what I like about American English
especially is that one it's very simple
right like as much as it might not be
simple for someone who speaks something
else or for someone like me who already
speaks English I feel like learning
American English from the start is a lot
simpler in British English because there
are so many forms and modes and types of
these verbs and nouns and pronouns that
you you most of the times this year not
interested in learning British English
you can go down this spiral of where
you're no longer understanding what is
being taught yeah yeah whereas American
English is a lot easier to grasp and
understand i would say understand it
yeah alright so i think that's the rap
is there anything that you want to say
to the audience i mean i don't know any
of you guys but all I'll say is this
dude right here is a dope a very kind
guy so get it from me that he knows what
he's doing and I appreciate the fact
that he you know took the time to ask me
these questions and more more or less
i'm just gonna say good luck man no take
it easy it's not going to be easy but
we're supporting you one hundred percent
i would definitely go to cheddars video
oh yeah yeah yeah appreciate ya so dad
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all right can you do it in the pidgin
language now that would be crazy