Teaching My American Wife How To Speak Nigerian Pidgin English (YouTube video and selected comments)

Ling & Lamb, Dec, 29, 2020

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video in which a Nigerian man (lLamb) teaches his American wife (Ling) some Nigerian Pidgin English. 

A few comments from that video's discussion thread are included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, linguistic, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Ling and Lamb for sharing this video on YouTube. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.

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SELECTED COMMENTS
These comments are given in relative chronological order with the oldest comments given first except for replies.

These Nigerian Pidgin words and phrases are given without any translation.

Excerpt for the comment given as #1, all of these comments are from January 2021. 

Numbers have been added for referencing purposes only.

Click https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/nigerian-pidgin-words-phrases for an April 2020 article by Mimi Werna entitled "Nigerian Pidgin – 20 useful words and phrases"

1.Anthony Nelson
"See my people ooooo, I love u guys alot😅😅😅, never a bored moment with u guys, Lamb afa na, how d christmas dey be na😅😅...

Ling try not to put phonetics just speak d pidgin like dat...

Merry Christmas and a happy new year 😍😍💝💝💝"

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2.  &J VLOG TV
"The way she speak this pigin is hilarious🤣🤣

Best Couple ever ❤⚘

Love you guys biggest fan here"

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3. Ludo Liu 2
"Hi I just found your video in my feed today !

you both are so lovely !

i go dey subscribe sharp Ma !

cheers from lagos"

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4. emmeshow
"The moment I hear the topic. I was like ‘which kind thing be this in ling voice.

I love the moment I laughed all through and kudos to ling she was understanding the pigging little by little. Mr lamb five sentences of pigging is okay per day. Well done guys"

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5. Mr David
"One thing I could decipher from today’s vlog — after watching to the end is that Ling has been patiently learning pidgin, I love the way she composed her statement about not eating garri anymore... all the same, it’s always fun to watch you guys.  Keep it up!"

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6. Cecilia Onyia
"😂😂😂😂😂 the pizza part got me, She’s already learning pidgin English small small 🤣🤣🤣 Good Job Ling 💪🏼if you come Nigeria, them no fit sell you cause you go understand pidgin 😂😂😂"

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7. Damilare Ogunbiyi
"She said "garri" like "gary" spongebobs pet lol 😂

 The "i no go dey hear word" also gat me cracking 😂🤣

Lastly gari is good for your health ✌🏼"

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8. emerald realms
"You should have started simple like this; 

Is = Na

Want = wan

Will = shey

And the rest"

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9. Gracey girl
"Will = ba  (in northern Nigeria)"

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10. Xazzy Bwoii
"@K*Ships in K*Chups we also add ba sometimes mostly at the end..but it's go"

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11. Kebé Eyong
"@K*Ships in K*Chups wrong! I'm from Cross-River and a lot of us here use 'ba' a lot. Same with 'shar' and 'shebi', they're not limited to what region/state they originated from."

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12.YungOti official
"Omo My guy Dey fire broken English ... you be confam guy jare 🇳🇬"

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13. Ugochukwu Madubueze
"Ling oooooo abeg no kii me here....😃😃😃🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "Sometime I no go dey hear word"🤣🤣🤣🤣you are so smart!"

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14. Eze Fortune
"Omo this your student na ghen ghen ohh😂😂🤣..she no dey hear word but she try sha😅😅"

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15. Cheryl Fenton
"You two crack me up everytime.  This was hilarious!!   I was hollering....Ling you are something else😂😂😂. 

The pidgin language sounds similar to Jamaican patois....buta (butter) and wata (water) .

Lamb i think you have an excellent student😃"

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16. Official_Salt
"almost same just little n u are faster than pidgin"

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17. Favour xx
"ling pls we don't roll our t's here, we pronounce it with force 😂😂"

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18. Ilerioluwa Bankole
"6:42 : Literally killed me 😂😂😂😂 I like how she all of a sudden understood the syntax of the Pidgin and switched it 😂😂😂😂 Pure Gold."

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19. Prophetess PIA
"Look this two people eh

Una no go kill person ooh

Ling: from today l no go chop garri. Waoh una too much ❤️❤️❤"

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20. Osho Adetunji
"Ling na stubborn student 😂😂, but she is beautiful"

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21. 1linda linda
"When he said "wetin a dey drink" 😂😂😂and he drunk the juice 🙆🏻🤣🤣"

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22.  Idris Popoola
"Lamb's mouth when pronouncing "butter" with American accent 😂😂😹😹🤣

At last, we don no what a pidgen robot go sound like 😹

If you don't do the part 2 tomorrow, I'm done with you 😣😃

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23. linda linda
"When he said "wetin a dey drink" 😂😂😂and he drunk the juice 🙆🏻🤣🤣"

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24. Pro You Services Ltd
"I legit was laughing out loud throughout this video. Ling is so cute in her determination not to say the statement Lamb want to recite; which roughly translates to admitting she is sometimes stubborn and that she pledges to stop being stubborn from today.

Instead of saying " I go dey hear word", she said "I no go dey hear word", which is opposite of what Lamb was trying to trick her in pledging.😂"

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25. Ling and Lamb
"WOWWWWWWW!!!!!!! I had no idea what this meant....I am going to get LAMB GOOOD!!!!

-Ling

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26. Favour Wendy
"Omo guy

That pizza part off me

The butter own weak me

I no go behave

Ein no go chop garri again 😂😂😂"

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27. Michael Kalu Uche
"Little pidgin English joke:

 

Normal English: Coro is a virus

Pidgin English: Coro na virus"

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28. Shannon Queen
"😂😂😂😂"

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29. Whiplash CV
"Never thought of it like that 😂😂😂😂...very funny"

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30. Gosu Lanre
"Lolololololol"

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31. Lekannn
"Dfkm Abeg. 🤣🤣🤣"

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32. Prophetess PIA
"Oga Lamb "frapapa" 😂🤣take it easy with her, she is trying. Just like where ling said how far na! 😂

so sweet! 👍🏽👍🏽 Love you guys! 💞💖"

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33. Regina Obafemi
"There's smthn about that sentence "how far" even my Mexican friends  love to say it 😃😀"

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34. Ayodeji Boyede, 2020

@Regina Obafemi not even only Mexican almost all other countries that takes interest in pidgin

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35. D Peculiar one
"Our wife is so cute.. you can never be bored being married to a Nigerian"

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36. Oke Akpotu
"I’m Nigerian but please don’t say “our wife” that’s weird as hell"

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37. D Peculiar one
"@Oke Akpotu go and sit down, stop living borrowed and fake life, you want to westernize by fire by force. We Nigerians have been saying our wife since beginning of time, what is weird about that? You have a dirty and damaged mind. Even her husband understand the slang, take your weird thinking else where."

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38. Henry M.
"@Oke Akpotu no way you’re Nigerian and think that’s weird , abeg"

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39. kani_n_kams_mommie !
"The way he clinched his teeth together when she said butter the American way 😂😂😂😂😂"

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40. Grace Odus
"Iru omo wo wa ni Ling bayi

We need to see more of this oooo🇳🇬🇳🇬

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41. usman tobias
"This couple are going viral bro🤣🤣🤣

You guys dey go viral🤣🤣🤣"

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42. NDOYE MOUSSA
" wait....Are you a student or not " that killed me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂"

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43. Margaret Wanjiru
"I like her pidgin accent buh sooner she go learn small small.so

 dnt rush her.am

 from Kenya and my husband iz an Igbo man so me 2 adey try my best to learn."

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44. FESTUS EMENALO
"Igbo language is a general one because Igbo people are everywhere. Learn it my dear Lolo"

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45.  Izzy chizzy
"Honestly Ling really sound like google translator her voice na die😂😂😂😂😂"

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46. BASHIR YAKASAI
"I’m in Russia, and When You tell a girl that you ‘re from Nigeria the first tell thing she will respond is “How Far na” 😂"

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47. Charlie blinkz
"Bro for real?"

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48. BASHIR YAKASAI
"@Charlie blinkz Seriously Bro. 😅 it’s like a Popular pidgin phrase to them."

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49. Brity sh
"Hahaha"

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50. Young Moses
"True lol"

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51. Bill Wairuhi
"How Is Russia?

I hope you are doing well there."

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52. Liwei李伟 MayBach
"How far na?"

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53. Princess Stellz
"🤣🤣🤣"

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54. Michael Okpara
"Ah God!❤️ My stomach aches. Ling and lamb guys are vibes👌. That pizza really gat me rolling on the floor🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...👍👍"

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55. Daniel Varney
"Oya bros you funny sha 😂😂🤣🤣 you guys Dey fine together"

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56. DKING MONEY
"It’s the #UnitedStates for me 😂😂 Our sista dey try ooo, Lamb well done sir!!!"

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57.  Ekerette Ekanem
"🤣🤣

Lamb: "don't funkify it" 😂😂😂 @7:59"

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58. Chris Williams
"Lamb: wetin you dy chop?

Ling: my Business

Lamb: Wowwwww, you go fail this course o 😂😂😂😂"

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59. Hud Mochi
"You nah Oyimbo how you take understand Pigin?"

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60. Varkitekt
"Watching this was so refreshing😂. But Lamb you need to start from the core basics. Just like teaching English, you have to start from single words used commonly in conversations like (una, go, dey, e, be, sabi, no, die, sebi, abi, ba, kukuma, abeg, wahala)  also conjunctions like (say, ein) then you can graduate to complex sentences keeping in mind that Pidgin has its own unique grammatical  structure and takes in many words from Nigerian languages while neglecting certain english verbs like 'is, are' 

For instance  'where are you from' translates to 'where you from come'.

Moreover she has to discard her American accent for learning purposes, what is burrurr abeg?" 😂

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 61. Moses Abo
"She is really understanding well o, she don dey change am for you"

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EXCLUSIVE9JA
62. "Egbon Abeg please be posting video every day please we love ling from Nigeria 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬"

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63. Grace Odus
"Abi e ba wa be won"

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64. Babatunde Odebiyi

"I dey feel this channel oooo. Laugh Wan kill me here o😂😂😂. Kudos to you guys. Good to have stumbled on your channel.👍"

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65. Sunday Emmanuel
"I swear. She's taking like a robot"

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66. Gift O. Semeto
"🤣🤣🤣I swear down oo"

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67. Hephzibah Makhetha
"As a South African, I am learning Pidgin English myself and I can hear it better than before 😊"

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68. phillip bolaji
"Lamb said there is love in sharing but he sometimes runaway with his food 😂😂😂. Nice job bro,pls keep teaching her d slang we dey feel you bro."

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