SEC WK2 : The language in my country

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Hello everyone here greetings from this end to you all, i wan to trust that we are all doing great here, if so then thanks be to the almighty. I am v-brainer and today i am glad to participate in the ongoing contest with the title "SEC WK2 : The language in my country" that is been organised using the official account of the Steem4Nigeria community. Please ride with me as i go into the topic proper.

WHAT IS LANGUAGE?
Language is a method of communication used by humans either by spoken words, sign or symbols to convey message and used by people of a particular region, State, country etc.

My country which is referred to as the giant of Africa, the country which is unique in the whole of Africa and famous for its diverse cultural heritage, it population and different natural resources. Nigeria; apart from all these unique attributes about Nigeria mentioned above, Nigeria is know to have the highest number of languages in Africa and among top five in the whole. Nigeria has over five hundred (500) different languages used for communication jn different region of the country.

Normally, i am the kind of person that likes to relate with people and deep down i have so much desire of learning different languages but learning them all can not be possible. Among all these languages i wish to learn atleast one-ten of them but so far so good, i am only familiar with six different languages in my country that is;

• Igbo - which is the native language of my tribe,
• Hausa - which i learnt from the part of the country i reside
• Yoruba - which i learnt from my close friends
• English - which is the legalized language in my country
• Pidgin English - which is dominant too among people in rural areas.

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The advantages of speaking more than a language are just too many and I'll be talking about few notable ones. The Hausas will sell goods to you at cheaper rate when they observe you can speak their language very fluently and so it is with so many other tribes too. Learning another language will ease the flow of information between people of different tribe. Learning and knowing how to speak another language could bring and create more opportunity like business, employment, travels etc.

Learning another language too increases knowledge of ones self especially in academics; take for example, carrying out a research and getting related journals written in another language. People tends to like you more when you can speak their language and so learning new language can boost friendship.

When i was still a kid, i was curious about learning more languages aside fry native language and luckily for me i got familiar with some. I am glad and feel good most times knowing the fact that i can speak multiple languages because it makes me relate easily with people especially in the geographical location where I reside.
I will definitely want my children to learn more languages if they so wish too. I would love my children to have this good feeling i am having now knowing the fact that i can speak six different languages fluently. It will be of great benefit to them and i know they will be thankful for that.

There are about 7000 languages world wide and over 500 languages in my country Nigeria, which makes it is almost impossible to learn even 1% of them but learning more than just one is possible and is of great advantage and i want to urge us all to try and learn atleast one additional language.
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