Biggest challenges for Yoruba speakers learning English
If you know what’s hard in advance, you can learn faster. These are the main things that slow down Yoruba speakers when they learn English.
- •Yoruba is tonal — three tones change word meaning completely
- •English has articles — Yoruba expresses definiteness differently
- •Yoruba verb serialisation — chaining verbs without connectors — has no English equivalent
- •Yoruba subject pronouns are obligatory but differ in form from English
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