Yoruba Lessons Ep 1: Greetings || Let's Learn Yoruba!
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Need my parents to stop bantering me for not knowing the language they never taught me
Lool
firesleven omg I relate so hard with this comment lmao
so relatable
Lol same here!
MNNN TEA
I'm haitian and I did a DNA test recently... Apparently I'm 71% Yoruba from Nigeria! This is what brought me to you video! Kilonsele sister?? haha
Yayy! Welcome to the yoruba family! You have many brothers and sisters over here! Ekabo!!
Johanna D.
Ọọmọ, wàá gbàyì. Ẹ kú oríire náà o.
If you marry me I will teach you better
Which test did you take? [asking bc I’m still indecisive on which one to take]
Omo wa ni! Welcome sis.
My fiance is Yoruba. We are getting married in a few months. I want my husband to be able to speak his own language in his own house and not have to speak English all the time. I've been using Memrise for a few months. You should see his face when I slip Yoruba words into conversation. He feels so loved. 🥰❤️
Aww I can imagine he’d be very happy! Congratulations in advance on your wedding!
@@DiamanteBox O sé 😊
You really are a blessing. You're helping me so much!
That’s exactly what I’m going threw I feel the same way
Hey what’s Memrise please? I would like to learn Yoruba
Same thing getting married to a Yoruba guy I'm learning one by one 😅
I have two children in my class who’s from Nigeria, so I’m excited to learn more about their culture and make them feel more comfortable ❤️
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You are wonderful teacher!
Showadsd
I am a web developer, let’s make an app teaching people Yoruba
Hello Kevin, I am Olatunde, a native Yoruba speaker from a Yoruba lineage, I live in Lagos, your suggestion is a welcome development.....so how do we go about it?
Are you a Yoruba too?
@kevinDurant, please ooo. make it similar to duolingo- which is very user friendly andall online. i'm learning french there from scratch and i can speak it and even type it better at basic level
Nice idea Kevin
Kevin Durant ur did not portrait u as a Yoruba person. Pls always proud of ur tribe(oruko eni ni ijanu eni) pls let us make use of our name well
great idea
I’m a black American and I just found out Yoruba is the largest percentage of my heritage. I definitely need to learn this language since this was stripped from us during the Trans Atlantic slave era.
Lol. I can relate. My parents are worried that I won't understand anything so here I am now 😂 .
exactly why im learning
Our language was stripped too Taino language, but was crazy is that in Cuba they speak yoruba language.
That is cool. Definitely a heritage to be proud of. I heard it spoken in a restaurant today, and thought it sounded beautiful. I am training each episode of hers weekly, and then I'll move on. Psyched.
If you don’t mind me asking, which test did you use?
I'm an English Londoner but I've met so many people from Lagos here and love surprising them with some basic greetings!
I did an African ancestry DNA test and I am Nigerian Yoruba. I am so excited to belong and finally know where my mother’s people are from.
I'm a hungarian living in UK, but I like to surprise my good Nigerian friend by saying new things in his language
I'm Hausa and my husband is Yoruba (Best decision of my life) but I can't speak his language to save my life. This channel is a Godsend
“Best decision” please share why with soon to be Yoruba Mrs 🤩
I love you for this I'm an Ewe from Ghana 🇬🇭 and have part of my root from Togo 🇹🇬.. I have always love Yorubas but I found out recently that Ewes are Yerobas that migrated westward and that makes me like yeroba more now I will love to learn the language 🇳🇬❤
i’m Nigerian but as a child i don’t know how to speak it properly yet, So this really helps. Thank you!
The time of my Dad dissing me and my siblings is coming to an end. We have just really started paying attention to his side comments in Yoruba and have realized that they haven't exactly been kid friendly. Can't wait to see his face when I reply.
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learning African languages could be enjoyable because they reveal so much about ancient language mechanisms.
i agree!
Charles brown u re right
FROY Most European and Indian languages come from the one language spoken thousands of years ago: Proto Indo-European. It’s descendants include the ancient of Sanskrit, Latin, Ancient Greek, and Old Norse just to name a few. Each of these branch into the new languages of today like Hindi, Spanish, Norwegian, Russian, and many many more. It’s one of the single largest language groups. However, it’s still barely a fraction of the worlds languages coming in at about 3000 recorded langs. Latin only has about 6 major descendants.
Also, science has come to a widely accepted theory that humans originated in Africa based on genetic diversity, the fossil record, and similarities of humans to African apes. The theory goes that most humans were dark skinned, but when they moved to Europe the cloud cover made it so they did not need the extra melanin (what makes skin dark) to protect us from UV radiation. Eventually, European skin lightened.
There are also many large language families that rival the number of descended languages both in number and in speakers. Niger-Congo in Africa, Sino-Tibetan in Asia, Afro-Asiatic in North Africa/the Middle East, etc.
@FROY Latin ONLY sired the modern Romance languages, which are a tiny fraction of the world's labguages. Even the majority of languages spoken in Europe don't trace their lineage back to Vulgar Latin. For example, English, Greek, German, Russian, Hungarian, Finish, Turkish, Albanian, Polish... Need I go on? Genetically, NONE of these languages have ANYTHING to do with Latin-- nevermind Yoruba, which I believe is a member of the Niger-Congo language family. Don't be so Eurocentric.
I'm here because if we don't seek knowledge of who we are, we will cease to exist as our true and indigenous selves....the last election revealed that with with upward of 12% of Black males voting for a semblance of a leader with not one but two consent agreements for housing discrimination against Negroes and declaring Blacks are INHERENTLY LAZY through no fault of their Own...the most racist thing one could say about the lineage of a people and curse their God
From Nigeria many football players come to play in Kolkata India. I met many Nigerian footballers came to play in my home town. They are great. ❤from🇮🇳
Here after watching King of Boys. She made me fall in love with the language ❤️
My Ugandan friends: "You can always tell a Nigerian, because they end every word with 'o'."
Random Yoruba video: "It's true, actually."
Yes ooo. We use ooo to emphasize.
AH THAT IS NOT CAP OOO
I am Brazilian,and in Brazil remains Yoruba language in our religious culture, our food, dance, music and religion is a heritage from Congo, Angola, Nigeria ,Ghana,Guiné, my great-grandfather was African. I know a few songs in Yoruba but having a translation for the meaning, I am so glad that i found your channel , thank you very much ! e dupe
Ko tope!
Sim menina, muito legal isso
Hi Vanessa I didn't knowthat in Brazil they speak yoruba nice! I'm from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 me encanta Las mujeres de Brazil 😍😂😂😂 I want to learn yoruba.
How was your great grandfather African?
@Matija Rupčić How is the history of his family African? Brazilians have Portuguese ancestry
Bawoni? 4 years late but you were amazing and u didn’t speak too fast! Hubby is Yoruba (been married almost 5 years in April). so I’m learning slowly how to speak it and you Nigerians will put the pressure on 😂 but much respect I’m learning a lot and this channel with help me soar!!😊 much love my sis🥰
Hahah welcome to the family!
My husband is Nigerian and after finding this video and learning Yoruba, it makes me happy knowing that soon I will be able to understand and communicate with him and family
I cheated, since my parents were too busy to teach me Yoruba, I made it a point of duty and a promise to myself to date only Yoruba girls/women from the age of 17. I am now married to a beautiful Yoruba woman whose first tongue is Yoruba for 9 years.
Our first rule was to always speak Yoruba at home. Very steep learning curve but within 2 years I now speak Yoruba, ok, not fluently, not eloquently because of the westernized tongue but I can't be mugged off with the language anymore. Our two kids now understand and speak Yoruba, yes with English accent, but it's ok, it's better than nothing.
For the newbies, don't be discouraged by the mockery or piss taking by the fluent Yoruba speakers. Relatives are the worst, they laughed and mock my attempts. They'll tend to roll over laughing because of the accent, roll with it, it's all love. You'll eventually get there.
Love this!!!
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Good job, I'm proud of you and your determination. Omo Oodua ni e💕.
That's the spirit !! Well done. God bless you.
Love your determination, you are correct yoruba guy❤❤❤ washe orire
J A
lol the relative thing is super true, luckily I understand Yoruba but can't speak much.
I am an Asian and my husband is Yoruba..this is great..
Iyawo wa... lol
dare isaac It means our wife, right?
Lucky you. Hope you and your kids are learning the dialect?
@@cygwanfogbe246 yes
Mud bloods are cool
I an Igbo girl brought up in Benin city who just found herself serving in Ibadan. It hasn't been easy communicating with these people fluently without them speaking Yoruba. I love the language
I will count it a great achievement if I can speak it fluently
This is great. My father is Polish but was born in Nigeria and I went out to Lagos to play rugby in 2004 and have always wanted to learn. You've made this understandable and fun! Looking forward to watching the whole series
I am a South Africa and my friend in Nigeria forced me to learn Yoruba, he is learning my home language too, how cool is that
Just found out I'm 29% Nigerian 18.5% coastal west Africans and 10% senegambian & Guinea so far that's all the results I've gotten back from 23 & me and I'm trying to learn my language and the way my people live. Being African American it feels so good to know where my ancestors come from. I live in Texas and I'm surrounded by Mexicans and their culture and language and I finally know where my roots come from and I can learn my culture and represent.
Love the lesson. I'm am American with a Yoruba name! My middle name is Abeni. So I said it's about time I represented and learned the language from which my name comes. Thank you sooooo much!
I am an Australian Nigerian who has grown up not being able to understand any Yoruba as i havent been taught. Im glad I came across the page and hope to learn to speak Yoruba fluently :D
I'm honestly the same I also wish to learn and glad I came across this
Sis please don't stop these videos! I'm learning :D
I've got you!! More on the way haha
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Bola So
Bawoni? Lol
How is it going
I’m learning for my boo lol. He’s going to be so impressed lol. Haitian lady here 🇭🇹
just landed in nigerria from india . i was searching some videos about learning yoruba language and my search ends here....a lot of love.. thanks
❤️❤️
I'm a South African learning this beautiful language. I love Nigeria so much, the people, especially the music ❤️❤️❤️
I'm Zambian too
What is the indigenous language of South Africa?
@@ejbenton8814 khoi-San languages would be my closest bet.
OH YEAH THE MUSIC 😋
@@ejbenton8814 we have 11 different languages in South Africa
Im Igbo, but basically the world of entertainment is currently dominated by the yorubas. I intend learning to adapt and expand my horizon. Thank You! Great teacher. Ekaro, BaWoNi?
Maybe in Lagos but that’s it. Nollywood is dominated by Igbo.
@@adamsc9049 yoruba is the one that started nollywood
@@adamsc9049 Yoruba dominated every industry
Ekaro, ba wo ni
Thank you so much Blessing, Just started my Yoruba speaking journey with your video. It was great 😊
A pleasure!
Really thankful to find a channel that can help me better my yoruba❤
I am Spanish teacher in Maryland and my students challenged me to learn some Yoruba and some Igbo. I have started watching your lessons and I'm so excited to greet them tomorrow!
Oh yay!
Im also a Spanish teacher and I’m learning out of curiosity and some of my favorite people are Nigerians. I would like to surprise them.
Kilo n sele
Ba wo ni
So wa dada
(E) ka ro. Ba wo ni.
Thank you. I just want to learn it for the pleasure of learning it and communicating better with people.
Glad I found your channel! I made a Nigerian friend recently and after he taught me a few things, ba wo ni etc. I started to really like yoruba and how it sounds. So now I want to learn more and it seems your channel is the 1. A real blessing
The energy that you bring to this is everything 🖤
❤️
God bless you for starting this series! Great teacher too
Thank you!
I’m tryna learn the whole language inside an out
Love the Yoruba language and most of all its culture ❤️🖤 Afro Cuban
You are a great teacher, you include fun and jokes in your classes, had me laughing and that meant what you were teaching was being remembered. Thank you young Queen 🙏🏽
Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for your time and effort to help me learn my ancestry language. I am learning quickly with the help of your videos. Much appreciated
OMG finally I can learn the language my dad should've taught me as a baby! Hopefully I can learn enough to teach my future children. Thank you!
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I am asian and the guy I like is Nigerian and he speaks this language! Thank you!!! I can use these words and phrases to him! Im so excited!! ☺️☺️☺️
I’m 50% Yoruba and 50% Ghanaian living in Ghana but I can’t speak Yoruba to save my own life. I’m glad to have found this page
Am a Cameroonian 🇨🇲 but I love Yoruba language and am sure u'll make my Yoruba speaking a dream come through. Nice one
My best friend Grant, (Kola) grew up in Nigeria. He speaks Yoruba, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I’m a Xhosa last from South African and oko mi is Yoruba. One thing I’ve picked about Yorubas is that they are very respectful and humble. Ese go for the video ma
Ko tope! And yes respect is a big part of Yoruba Culture
Love your Brittish accent!!! I've been watching Nigerian Christian movies. I feel blessed and closer to Abba God from the content of these movies. I also feel a connection to Africa, which is a large part of my DNA, by watching these movies. Thank God for you, also for ministries like Bamiloye, and other movie companies with true Godly content....Jesus telling His own story.
You're helping me with this. TYVM
Thank you so much for creating this video. I’m currently learning Yoruba because something about the culture and the language just really clicks and resonates with me.
I'm Kenyan but want to learn yoruba.. I just love these people.
I took a DNA test and I found out I’m Nigerian and want to learn the language Thank you for teaching your amazing
O DA BO
Welcome to the Naija club haha!! Glad you want to know more!!
Toni Moore great
There’s many tribes. And over 600 languages in Nigeria alone. Yoruba isn’t the default language.
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@@Jadegreen you sound pained...he only commented on a Yoruba language UA-cam page. Why is that an issue?🤷🏿♂️
I’ve got this kind older man that I’m trying to learn this language for. Thank you so much! Always makes a man happy when speaking their mother tongue 😊
Thanks blessing for teaching us how to speak Yoruba
I luv u
I just stumbled on to this. I found out I am 54% Nigerian and a friend told me I looked like her Yoruba tribe. I wanted to hear the language. I have heard it spoken but not for understanding. This is perfect.
Iam Somali and iam going to learn Yoruba.
Keli n sele.
Ba wo ni.
So wa dada.
Thank you so much 😊🙏May you get the blessings of triple gems 😊🙏Namo Buddhaya 😊🙏
I can't be the only Nigerian just learning it fun😁
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Your not😂
I just married a Yoruba man, I want to learn as much as possible and this is helping. Love the phonics!!
Congratulationson your nuptials!! Glad I could help! xx
I just learned that I am 30 percent Nigerian (Yoruba). I did alot of research on my Haplogroup and all the results tell me Yoruba. My family was stripped on our culture for centuries and now I want to reclaim what is mine. Thank you so much for the opportunity to learn my language
So glad I could help!
I'm a Cameroonian. I just love Yoruba and really wabt to learn, even if it's just the basics.
Thank God I stumbled on your page.
You are very welcome
What a beautiful language! I hope to create a bridge of understanding to many parts of the world by learning this, thank you!
Thanks for this, my dad passed away young so I don’t know much Yoruba but I am Nigerian 😪🙏🏼
I'm sorry for your loss! I'm glad I could help!
My mom loves me learning yoruba but she does not teach me but she found your chanel and I have been improving with yoruba
Bawoni is the only word i knew since i was a freshman in highschool. Now i can add on . Thank you! I start day 1 today!
Great to hear. Hope it's going well
Thank You Im American Nigerian discovery my language
My ancestors were Nigerian and I wish I had a stronger connection to the culture. Hopefully I’ll be able to learn this language!
The language is very easy to learn
@@adepojuquyum8499 no it's not lol
@@doyi3 are you Nigerian?
@@doyi3 it's one of the easiest languages to learn
I believe I will be Yoruba if I searched my DNA.
I love this culture and have natural ways that are found in Yoruba people.
I want to travel to Nigeria now and see how I feel.
I may not want to come back to Texas.
You are beautiful by the way.🎀💕🎀
Haha you should definitely visit, im sure you would like it!
How do u search your dna
I feel dumb
M writing a book, i choosed to write a story of yoruba people but I even don't know basic of yoruba this help to write some of important informal dialogues Thank you!!
Nigeria culture is amazing!!! Love from brazil !!
Out of all the west African languages, Yoruba is my favorite! Thank you for starting this series
I'm glad to have you here!!
"out of all" lmao how on earth
Tu51ndBl4d3 What do you mean? There are thousands.
Yoruba has this allure about it that I cant describe
Alone nigeria has more than 200
Thank you for making this series! I'll definitely go over them. My Woman is Yoruba, and she's trying her best to include me, but it is difficult. She will be very happy that "Oko Mi" is trying. ^_^
TheDanishGuyReviews 👍💪
I am a Yoruba by bloodline. I received in the holy dream a lot of people dressing with colors garments and kneeling to me and their leader has a woman to translate what he said in English to me and she said to me you are Yeruba we are come to anointed you. After this dream a was shaking for all day alone. Since, i can't wait to learn the language and go to them community to invest and to support them alone. I from Haiti, i am a son of african slave and i am a yeruba by blood. Proud of it already and so happy to meet with them very soon.
Welcome to the yoruba family!
I love these type of videos! Keep it coming 👍🏾
I speak french but I’ve been learning Yoruba through yoruba subtitled movies. So please don’t mind my writings. Omo Yoruba me ne guidi guon . Sista me mo like lessons ne yin baje. Mo bgadun! Mo sō Yoruba diè diè, O kar é o ! O da boh!
( sorry for all my mistakes, will improve, still learning ) 😅🤭
The first time I watched a Yoruba I felt in love instantly with Yoruba...
J’adore la culture Yoruba, la cuisine ( ewedu ati gbegiri, Efo, shaki, Akara etc, ) les films qui sont très instructifs et éducatifs, j’aime la façon dont les Yoruba éduquent leurs enfants, La façon dt ils attachent leur foulard ( gélédé)
Je suis Yoruba de coeur... ❤️💓Thank you for the lessons will learn more with you ! 😘😘😘😍😍😍👍🙏
Inu mi dun pe e gbadun awon lessons mi. I hope they're helping! i also watch yoruba movies a lot and theyre very helpful in learning the language.
J'eesaye etudie francais aussi mais je tres difficile por moi.
Really glad to have you on the channel!
PLEASE don't rely on those Yoruba movies for learning Yoruba. They're very watered down and OFTEN wrongly translated. Yoruba movies can be an aid to learning. But I highly recommend the older movies instead. Movies like Toluwanile, Oleku, Saworo Ide are all classics and have the most authentic Yoruba.
* the "me" should be "mi"
❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Chrysalide Fiori lol... you burst everywhere... u tried tho.
Hello Kayode! I am a beninese Yoruba living in France. My daughters and Í discovered your channel and we are very happy to see that ! Your work is very good. And thanks to you they Will speak very good Yoruba. Continue your work 👍😘😘
Hallo thanks for Yoruba lessons. I'm italian. I've been in Lagos Ikeja in 1973 up to 1980
Remember piding and many yuruba words. Now i'm old but Naija is in my ❤
Good job👍Eka le.
I am so happy to have found this! Thank you 🙏🏽
Thank you.am from the Caribbean my ancestors are from Africa.did my Ancestry few years ago and turned out am 65% Nigerian.thanks to u I have just managed to say my first words in my ancestral tongue.
I'm Ghanaian and I want to learn yoruba. Thanks so much 😊😊👍
It's a blessing and a curse we gotta learn this way . May we all continue to be blessed abundantly ❤️🔥🧎🏾
Thank you so much for these videos. I’m learning and catching on quickly. African languages come to me so naturally compared to other languages. It just rolls of my tongue so smoothly.
I am Nigerian I just don't remember that much cause I moved to America when I was 3 so now I am trying to catch up soI'm not the only person, not understanding the Nigerian Movie we watch (but it is funny to see my parents try to pronounce English words like uber).
(Kilo n sele)
(E ka ro, ba wo ni)
Easy to say hard to spell...
Now that’s a beautiful language
I’m American... recently heard of this language and it sounds like.... home lol
You are awesome by the way for doing this for us, thank you. Your upbeat personality makes this fun and memorable
My Nigerian friends love me more than ever. thank you
Just found out I'm Yoruba of Nigeria so I'm doing what I need to do to learn my ancestors native tongue. I appreciate this.
Just what I need ! my mother tries to teach me Yoruba and when I can’t say it right she’ll laugh at me , please don’t stop with the videos ; I’m gonna surprise her
Crash course tips will be
1. To know the alphabets (quite similar to English).
2. Yoruba is tonal and musical so you can use musical notes do, re, mi to help you recall pronunciation and differentiate similar words with different meanings.
Haha you definitely should suprise her!
Started in the dentistry field, the doctor I work for speaks Yoruba and we’ve seen a handful of patients from Nigeria. I’m so excited to learn basic greetings and pop them in 😂❤🎉
That's lovely!
Thanks for posting this cause I am Nigerian & Yoruba but was never taught Yoruba since my dad passed 🙏🏼
Oh girl thanks so much. I am South Sudanese woman and married to Yoruba man. It's gonna be my second time going back to Nigeria this year to visit my in laws who are so dear to my heart always wishing if Only i could speak Yoruba to mama since she can't speak much English. Picking up a bit of Yoruba there and there I can't wait to see the looks on her eyes hearing me speaking Yoruba to her😇
Abiei Philip Aww I'm so glad I can help then!! Hope you enjoy Nigeria and you have a good time over there!
Im a Haitian with mostly Yoruba ancestry. Looking to learn the Yoruba language fluently. Bawo ni!
Ekabo to the yoruba fam!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤
My first time here! And I challenged myself to learn this language even just the basics before 2022. :) . Awesome job on the video
Been studying my ancestry and discovered that my ancestors were Yoruba, been trying to learn more about the Yoruba and I am excited to learn more about the language.
Hi
am American and i really love Yoruba ever sense i had a boyfriend he's from Nigeria "Banjo" and he tout me some phrases in Yoruba and i really love to learn more and what you're doing is sooooo extremely helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello my name is Adeola. And i am 9 and i love your channel
The answer is Kilo n Sele
Thankyou so much, this has been very helpful with brighting up my Nigerian friends and colleagues days!