livebysunlight:

thatnigeriankid:

I’m jealous of African kids, or any 1st generation immigrant for that matter, who can speak their native language. My parents didn’t “Americanize” me, actually they did the complete opposite of that, and although they speak my language at home and sometimes use it when talking to me the never …

This is always something that has bothered me. I CAN speak, I’m actually fluent, but most of the time I choose not to, because I don’t like the way it sounds when I speak it. Idk, I just feel like it’s not authentic when I hear myself speak Igbo. I don’t have the accent, whatsoever, and that bothers me. Yeah, idk. I’m weird. But I guess I really just take it for granted. It’s not really like my parents ever ‘taught’ me, I just picked it up since that’s what they speak at home. But my siblings, oddly enough, don’t understand at all. Its not like my parents didn’t teach them, they had the same opportunity as me to pick it up, but they didn’t. Then again, it’s not spoken at home as much as English. Idk, I love when people are able to speak and understand their native tongue, but that’s rarely always the case :/

Me too ; I’ve picked it up through Yoruba movies and songs and I speak it fluently ; however, when I try to converse with my relatives, I feel like I sound soo off base I don’t even want to speak it 

I continue to bother my parents about how they should have let me school in Nigeria ; living there for three years did nothing especially since I was just a baby .

That’s why I may have to go there for University 

(via determined0ptimist)