Is It Useful To Speak Twi In Ghana?

Kwame Mainu was called to a gathering in Oxford. In transit, he conversed with a specialist of the Customs administration about late excursions to Ghana.

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‘Cap’s a fortunate blighter,’ David said as he separated into the flood of quick vehicles on the motorway. ‘For what reason do you say that?’ asked Kwame, shocked at this amateurish upheaval uncovering David’s own emotions.

‘He gets all the excursions to Ghana.’

‘You’d prefer to get an opportunity, OK?’

‘We as a whole would, yet its solitary Tam who actually goes.’

‘He’s the one in particular who speaks Twi.’

‘Indeed, yet is that truly important?’

‘It’s not basic but rather it helps, particularly on the off chance that you need to converse with unskilled people and provincial individuals.’

‘How generally is English spoken in Ghana?’ David inquired. ‘It’s the authority language, the language of government and most papers and books, and it’s the language of instruction in schools aside from the main year of grade school in Ashanti Region,’ Kwame clarified.

‘However, shouldn’t something be said about individuals in the road; do you hear a lot of English?’

‘You generally hear Twi with numerous English words blended in.’

‘Would you be able to give me a model?’

‘We were once trusting that a gathering will start and one individual checked the time and said “Time ben yebe starti?” I surmise you don’t have to speak Twi to comprehend that question.’

‘No, however, is the overall norm of English improving?’

‘I’m apprehensive not. There has been an overall decrease in the norm of English talking, particularly since the presentation of junior auxiliary schools, called JSS or Jerry’s Special Schools after Jerry Rawlings, the previous military despot and now president.’

‘What’s the issue?’

‘I guess it’s fundamentally a deficiency of educators and enormous class sizes, just as instructors expecting to have a subsequent work or a personal business to acquire enough to help themselves and their families.’

‘So are there proportionately less English speakers than some time ago?’

‘I’m apprehensive so.’

‘At that point Tam may be required considerably more than previously.’ David pondered out loud, seeing his odds of being shipped off Ghana becoming ever dimmer. ‘On the off chance that Tam’s job is to assemble data from basic talk in the roads and public places, his Twi will be helpful,’ Kwame stated, ‘however I should concede I couldn’t actually comprehend why he was in Ghana as of late.’

‘I have Leon’s authorization to advise you,’ David stated, ‘He was there to attempt to decide how much hard medications are being sold in the city and, if deals are expanding, to attempt to discover who’s selling them.’

‘Indeed, for what reason didn’t I think about that? He may meet numerous circumstances in which individuals will imagine that they can talk unreservedly in Twi and oboroni (the European) won’t hear them.’

‘You like the thought at that point?’

‘I do, and it clarifies why Tam can imagine he knows less or more Twi relying upon the circumstance.’

‘The elderly person is more brilliant than he appears, eh?’

‘That is no joke!’

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