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Ismahan123 wrote:I'm not proud of how little I know Somali. But I grow up with only my mother and father and sibbling as the only SOmalis around till I was in my late teens. How is one suppose to speak perfect Somali when 97% of the time he is non Somali speakers?

Same exact problem, I have.

I'm not around too many Somalis, I'll admit though I know a lot more Somali since interacting with my people online last couple years though.

FAH1223 wrote:

Ismahan123 wrote:I'm not proud of how little I know Somali. But I grow up with only my mother and father and sibbling as the only SOmalis around till I was in my late teens. How is one suppose to speak perfect Somali when 97% of the time he is non Somali speakers?

Same exact problem, I have.

I'm not around too many Somalis, I'll admit though I know a lot more Somali since interacting with my people online last couple years though.

My sister take somali classes as her foreign lang requirement at her Univ....its SAD wallahi.

Ismahan123 wrote:
My sister take somali classes as her foreign lang requirement at her Univ....its SAD wallahi.

lol, not really

thats pretty good, kinda wish my school had that...but theres no somalis here just xabashis and amharic

Nobleman has a point and is not trying to be offensive.

There's nothing wrong with speaking somali with south or north accent, there's no right or wrong

The problem here is somali Kids and youth raised in the West......like he siad and I observed this on different occasions, Majority of waqooyi parents stress their kids to speak Somali at home and repeatedly correct them if they make mistakes, while so many koonfur parents dont necessarly care, They speak somali to the child and the child responds in english or the parents dont correct the kid for example "hooyo wuubaxey" ...

I asked arabman this question , he haven't been able to answer it that dhoocilo.
The doqon extremist who would love to make diinta hard for other muslims , thats what extremist stands for.
I will keep asking the doqon in threads I think he will appear in.

Are you Somali ( Black ) , Arab ( White ) or are you Cabeed al carab ( slave ) ?

he claims to be arab, fukin shameful bastard

lets see what kind of arab he is

yes, its true reer waqooyi children are better in af somali then reer koonfuur/puntland. but theres a simple reason for that, the generation of 1950-1970 (our parents) who grew up in koonfuur were bilingual in either english/italian.

alot of the koonfuur parents really dont care if their children reply in another language because they understand it.

my mom is fluent in english and can read and write at a post-high school level. the reasoning being she was born and raised in xamar, and had formal English training.

FAH1223 wrote:

Ismahan123 wrote:
My sister take somali classes as her foreign lang requirement at her Univ....its SAD wallahi.

lol, not really

thats pretty good, kinda wish my school had that...but theres no somalis here just xabashis and amharic

Yh, its pretty cool but it sucks to take your own lang as a foreign language.

*Nobleman* wrote:who has better af somali north or south

Each has its merits. The North is clear but serious. The South lacks some proper grammar but is jovial.

AbdiWahab252 wrote:I agree with Nobleman and want to winnow it down: Issaq & Ogaden are two groups who educate their children to be fluent in Somali and in their customs

Abdihutu
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AbdiWahab252 wrote:I agree with Nobleman and want to winnow it down: Issaq & Ogaden are two groups who educate their children to be fluent in Somali and in their customs

and are you reer UK when you make such blunt judgement.? maybe i should two or four of my reer waqooyi friends.

Advo wrote:Nobleman has a point and is not trying to be offensive.

There's nothing wrong with speaking somali with south or north accent, there's no right or wrong

The problem here is somali Kids and youth raised in the West......like he siad and I observed this on different occasions, Majority of waqooyi parents stress their kids to speak Somali at home and repeatedly correct them if they make mistakes, while so many koonfur parents dont necessarly care, They speak somali to the child and the child responds in english or the parents dont correct the kid for example "hooyo wuubaxey" ...

Thanks bro that exactley what i mean. I'm talking about somali youth in the west and their ability to speak somali.