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spaciebabie · 2 years ago

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i wish my family actually spoke ga ta me and my brother when we were younger instead of just speaking it around us b/c i am existing in this weird middle ground between bilingual and monolingual where i can understand most of what they're saying but i cant speak it back ta them and its frustrating

like i know why they didn't wanna teach me and my bro it, when my family first moved ta america my mother had a hard time in school growing up b/c she didnt speak english so she couldnt talk ta any of the kids and she was lonely for awhile and they didn't want that ta happen ta us but. we were born here sjkfdskf we would've learned english anyway

idc if it would've been hard i already feel disconnected from my culture as it is, i just want this small part of it yk? its such a cool language too!!!!!!!!!!!! its so expressive and dramatic its literally perfect for me!!!!!!!!!!!!

#spacie spoinks #imagine bilingual spacie that would b so cool #its also setting in that the only ppl who speak ga 2 me are my grandparents and mother and they're getting older #one day they'll die and ill have no one ta speak it ta or learn it from anymore #b/c apparently ppl arent teaching their kids it anymore in ghana and are emphasising twi instead #like there are ppl who live in ghana who cannot speak ga #and thats my mother tongue dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#i wanna know how ta talk ta my folks in it #and there are NO resources ta learn this language online man im talking NONE #the most i have is news coverage videos ive found where the ppl are talking in ga #but there's obviously no subtitles cuz its not meant for a western audience so i can only pick up bits and pieces #there's one guy on youtube who's last ga learning video was from 5 years ago #this sucks.#im so jealous of ppl who can speak their mother tongue dude im so jealous #god i wish that were me

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