Yoruba language training - Brief Survival Guide

[cannbiscentury]

How ingorant can you be to say Mexicans go back to Mexico. This used to be Mexico, we used to live here till the white man took advantage of us. Africans and Mexicans are not enemy.

[19madrid1]

Mexican go back to Mexico

[djcuervo99]

I'm from Yoruba descent but don't not know the language.

[chacha291000]

This is so helpful! I am learning Yoruba and I find it can be challenging. This small guide would be enough to get me around town ok, with what I have learned so far when traveling in Nigeria. Adupe! Americans should learn more than one language. There are no invaders from Mexico, America stole their land, who is really the invader. Know your history.

[destruck2006]

@chacha291000

Im Chicano, and no Americans did not steal Mexicans land. They stole the natives land, just as the Spaniards did to the Aztecs, Otomi, Nahuatl, etc, just as the Portuguese did the Incans land. The problem is, that Mexicans carry alot more Native bloodline, which is why they are 'native darker', therefore when anyone says 'go back to Mexico', they're saying it while standing on Native land to a person with (usually) more than double the amount of Native percentage.

[IceInMySnowCone]

@destruck2006 Exactly! "Go back to Mexico! This is OUR land!" Says an "american." "Do you know who's land this was before you o', American?" o__O *uneducated face* Lol. Let us all face it, almost every single backround has stolen somebody elses land. So who CARES, let's just look at one another as people. Ok? :)

[tdt1000]

@tdt1000 I don't dispute the fact that the white contingent of the western world has shamelessly betrayed the black and many of them have worked to destroy African history. But the reason for this rests in the very fact of Africa's importance in their civilization, which they began to obscure since the slave trade. In ancient Europe this was not the case. Literature and history praised the black and acknowledged the exchange with them that developed science, jurispridence, architecture, & more.

[tdt1000]

@infox1000 They did it because some spanish remained? If that were the case spanish language would have ruled in those territories too and wouldn't have waited until the post 1985 mexico's tidal wave. No, the place names already had currency so they continued to be used to refer to them, it wasn't because of some wild importance of a few spanish people that remained.

[tdt1000]

@infox1000 not every cultural influence is an essential root of USA. Don't confuse USA with the continent. If someone disputes the USA's borders then they are a belligerent.

[layla528303]

tyhis helps a lot

[zippyspring]

I went on your website and I could not find the english-yoruba translator. Could you please tell me how to locate it? Thank you. 

[aether29]

nice. very nice. thank you very much

[kjsmason2010]

Beginners-Yoruba by Kayode Fakinlede.

For those trying to learn Yoruba, this is a great book that comes with CD's. My 4 and 6 year old are even catching on quickly. Just thought I would share.

[tdt1000]

@misty23able Your father sounds awesome. No doubt he could foresee the problems the US was about to face. Anyway, Igbo is a tough language! I was getting good at it, having done some work in Igboland in Nigeria for almost two years. But then I had few chances to use it when I came back to the US for doctoral studies, and then worked on refreshing some other languages I was studying before that. One day I will get back to Igbo language though. It is challenging!

[angelcarnivore]

Thank you so much for this, I am very interested in different languages, but have no knack for speaking them- so being able to hear the words helps tremendously.

[Emox991]

I wanna learn Yuroba language anyone can help me ? cuz i need someone to ask when i need ... or sites so i learn more how i speak like native speaker :)

So who wanna be my teacher? XD please

[MrLouieLove]

I REALLY THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THAT YORUBA LUKUMI IS THE ANCIENT YORUBA DIALECT AND NOT A CORRUPTED VERSION OF YORUBA AS MANY FAKE TEXTS SAY...THANKS AGAIN MODUPUES......

[asaforitifa]

@MrLouieLove I must respectfully and whole-heartedly disagree with you. Lukumi language is a liturgical retention of Yoruba language that has gone through its own transformation, especially since it is not the spoken language of all of the followers of Lukumi. It is only used in religious context and does not follow a standard Yoruba grammar, nor has Lukumi developed its own standardized grammar because it is not a spoken language.

[MrLouieLove]

@asaforitifa disagree all you want...i come from the proud and long lineage of Obadimelli and the Angaricas..Nicolas Angarica would hold the Yoruba seminars in Cuba and translated and wrote Yoruba dictionaries so that others could learn how to speak the language...my Yoruba name in fact is the Oshun's tongue..the mother of all tongues and ASE!...

[iwindara]

@MrLouieLove i think it might be positive to do more research on this and other issues. just do a google search for the gbawoniyi website and read the aclaraciones or aclaratorias. you might find it interesting, at the very least.

[asaforitifa]

@MrLouieLove Other liturgical languages that had better chances at surviving more intact include Sanskrit and Hebrew, which also became a spoken language again after millenium of being purely liturgical. The reason they were able to preserve these languages as they were is because there was and is an official policy for the clergy to study the language as a prerequisite of their profession as priests. That is not the case in any of the diasporal expressions of Orisa today. 

[moferane]

I have lived in America all my life and I am seeking so desperately to learn and speak the mother tongue. Please keep making more videos! " O dabo"!

[bernadett86]

loved it so good:D

[luegmiah]

Excellent!!!! Thanks for the effort... i'd love to see more!

[gohamushu]

lol lol lol i can speak yoruba fluenently not because am african lol :P

[pmcge63]

very useful information that will help me learn the tones to speak Yoruba correctly so I can surprise my husband that can speak it fluent.

[tdt1000]

This is good culture. Americans should learn an African language rather than cater to invaders from mexico.

[angelcarnivore]

@tdt1000 Americans need to learn more than just English or Spanish. People from other continents don't seem to have the same problem that we do in being multi-lingual.

[tdt1000]

@angelcarnivore They need to oppose spanish. African and English culture are the roots of the US.

[angelcarnivore]

@tdt1000 It's not *quite* that simple. But it is SO important to honor our African roots, definitely. Until more recently, PR, for example, never really was open about it's African roots, focusing more on the Spain part. But we're children of three continents.

[tdt1000]

@angelcarnivore It's not simple at all. I just point out it is not as simple as simply "needing to learn more than just English or Spanish". The first step of course is learning one's own language and culture to a depth. That is actually the primary means where Americans trail behind foreigners in terms of language.

[19madrid1]

@tdt1000 I`m a Cuban american and my religion is Orishas Yoruba I love to learn the language better and would like to see more afrcan american into the yoruba traditions If God want it us to be Cristian we would have born in Europe and in Arabia for muslin and chinese for Buda but in the Caribian we fallow African traditions

[Hoopermazing]

@tdt1000 I'm all in favor of learning Yoruba, since some of my ancestors probably spoke it. However, I find the idea that Mexicans are invaders laughable in light of the fact that most of the southern tier of the U.S. was stolen from Mexico. Many Mexicans live where they've always lived, e.g. California, Texas, Nevada etc. Those Mexicans didn't cross the border. The border crossed them.

[tdt1000]

@Hoopermazing Those not authorized to cross into the territory now held by the US and do so are invaders. If they harbor ancient claims to the land while they do so, then they are furthermore engaging in an act of war. But if your loyalty is with the mexicans, then you are in luck because since the 90's the border is intentionally unenforced and plenty of mexico keeps coming. You will absolutely love the US in 20-30 more years, it will be basically like a south of the border nation.

[Hoopermazing]

@tdt1000 Blah, blah, blah. Why should a Mexican give two shits about crossing an arbitrary border that divided lands their ancestors have lived in for thousands of years? Of course, all of that is academic. Their children, born here, are as American as baseball, apple pie and slavery. And, soon they will be in the majority throughout the southwestern states. Deal with it, or take your xenophobic tea-bagging ass elsewhere.

[tdt1000]

@Hoopermazing You don't belong here if you believe the border is "arbitrary". You are a punk who should be shipped out of here.

[Hoopermazing]

@tdt1000 Eat a bag of dicks, bitch. You aren't the arbiter of who should or shouldn't live anywhere. You're an insignificant turd, and all of your ranting and raving isn't going to change a fucking thing. FYI, I'm a 3rd generation combat veteran. And you... I'd bet my left ball that you are a sniveling right wing chicken hawk, who has never served in any capacity. That's certainly what you sound like.

[tdt1000]

@Hoopermazing You are wrong. I've been a guardian angel in nyc for over three years. And I could care less what you serve military or otherwise, if you don't believe in the sovereignty of this nation you need to get OUT.

[Hoopermazing]

@tdt1000 A "guardian angel" ??? ROFLMBAO! That's hilarious. I spent eight years in the United States Marine Corps, and you're so wacky that you think that running around NYC playing Batman is anything other than embarrassing. You, sir, are a joke. Moreover, if you think I need to leave the country. Come make me leave. I, unlike you, have a permit to carry concealed, and I wouldn't hesitate to blast your head out from under that silly beret.

[tdt1000]

@Hoopermazing I've already been hospitalized for one gunshot wound and two knife attacks. We train hard and work hard on the streets. We do it for no pay. But guardian angles, or military, none of these things mean anything if one does not support the sovereignty of the nation. That is basic.

[Hoopermazing]

@tdt1000 You are a nut, that's obvious. Now, run along and fuck yourself.

[tdt1000]

@Hoopermazing You are the one who as openly expressed support for foreign nationals' claims on U.S. Territory. Scum and wacko.

[Hoopermazing]

@tdt1000 Clearly, as a full on nutter, you aren't capable of determining normalcy. You dress up and run around the streets of New York as part of a unarmed vigilante gang. That casts everything else that you say or believe in doubt. As to the Mexicans, I will reiterate what I said before. Regardless of their legal/ moral status, their children are unequivocally American. And, they will control every political institution in the Southwest in a short time. Deal with it, or leave.

[tdt1000]

@Hoopermazing Your own words prove you are a lunatic radical wingnut. Nothing more about you needs to be mentioned. Your support of foreign nationals' claim to USA territory speaks for itself. No go enjoy the mexico. Trust me it's not limited to the Southwest, the northeast is already begun getting buried in the last 10 years. Don't worry, I am leaving this summer to do business transactions in Tanzania. You stay here and enjoy the mexico. You deserve it.

[Hoopermazing]

@tdt1000 You aren't in a position to make pronouncements about anyone's mental state. You are, by your own admission, a delusional xenophobic. You're also wasting your time with your absurd and quixotic anti-Mexican hysteria. We share a border with Mexico. There has always been immigration across said border, and it will continue. Those immigrants, documented or not, will have children and those children are natural born American citizens. Deal with it, or don't. You can't change a thing.

[tdt1000]

@Hoopermazing hooperMEXing one of the times I was stabbed was defending a Ghanaian immigrant from a mugging. I am not a "xenophobe" so just shut up with your insane ranting.

[tdt1000]

@Hoopermazing There is something you "can't change" too- in poll after poll Americans oppose amnesty for illegals, anchor babies, and mexican nationals' hate crimes/murders against African Americans. 

[TurboTurbulence22]

@Hoopermazing You're a traitor to the U.S., and one of the reasons why America would become a third world country. All because of paisas coming over and having five kids per family they can't afford to take care of. And plus these people refuse to assimilate to our culture. You are quite insane lol

[Hoopermazing]

@TurboTurbulence22 Eat a dick, you xenophobic fucktard. There is nothing in the United States constitution about assimilating into whatever you consider to be "our" culture. Our culture... ROFLMBAO.

[TurboTurbulence22]

@Hoopermazing Third world shithole it is then.

[magarita007]

@TurboTurbulence22 -who are "these people" that you are refering to? America is not the only nation in the world. Many people in other countries are proud of their country, regardless of each nations economic and social situations.Just as you are proud of the US, dont think others from other nations arent as patriotic as you are.

[TurboTurbulence22]

@magarita007 The illegals from South of the border, not those who have been here for generations. There is a difference, and it is not racism.

[themysteryrapper]

@TurboTurbulence22 well you can always do what the white man did to the indians....MAKE them assimilate, by cutting their hair, changing their names, Push them into segregated schools, and make it illegal to speak their own language, as well as give them white looking clothing. ALL your problems would fade wouldnt they white man?

[TurboTurbulence22]

@themysteryrapper Lmfao @ thinking I'm white. You're truly a dumbass who thinks that "Blacks and Hispanics" are allies when a lot of Hispanics hate Blacks. You haven't even checked my page out have you? Go somewhere with your fake wannabe alliance with them lol.

[tdt1000]

@TurboTurbulence22 mexico's drive out and even commit genocide against blacks once they take over neighborhoods in usa. Newspapers dismiss it as "gang violence" even though facts of the murders indicate race hatred time and time again. But when blacks strike back the media never fails to call it hate crime. In LA last year mexico's illegals even burned down a predominantly black church.

[tdt1000]

@Hoopermazing hoopermMEXing you are a lunatic radical wingnut no doubt!

[silky0955]

I am a African American man, I attend a church where 24 or more nations are there, I enjoy learning new languages. Let's not give a place to ingorance but a willingness to learn. I have read some of the comments, especially the negative ones and wonder what is the fear of learning???

[chacha29]

I have been learning beginning Yoruba. This was very helpful to understanding the tones in Yoruba. Thank you so much for this.

[dasar3]

ooh ok, o daa.. E şe.... Italia ni mo ti wa....

I like this language.. :D but on internet there aren't good sites for learning it.... :/ i'm waitng for another videos... Grazie! Ciao!!

[martr164]

E se!!!!! ;)

[N9nthdegree]

Thank you!! I was born and raised in London. Though I was brought up by Nigerian standards, I completely stopped speaking the language at the age of three due to being laughed at for my accent.

I understand yoruba fluently, but I've been finding it hard to learn. I know once I have the basics, I can take what I know and become fluent in no time.

Please please post more of these. I know there are many others like me who want to learn our mother tongue!

[mrcuboid]

Thank you my sister I'm feeling you there. I too was born in the UK and understand Yoruba word for word. Speaking it is a different matter and it is for the same reason that you put forward..the stupid ignorant English people mocking me for my accent. I have now relocated to the US where yoruba is spoken so freely without shame and now I am making all effort to learn my beautiful mother tongue :o)

[RicardoRoumimper]

I'm Indonesian but born in Holland. I'm into drumming & Jazz. I came across this video because of a uptempo Jazz song called: "The Gods Of Yoruba" by Gerardo Frisina and I started to wonder what Yoruba would be. What I've found so far is interesting. Thank you very much for posting this video.

[EdwinGramba]

Please post more videos, it's great to learn...

I'm from Lithuania, visited Lagos Abuja Sokoto etc..

[violetsareblue14]

POST MORE!!!!!!!!!

[chimpande]

ma binu ninu life

[chimpande]

Ese oman gongo ninu lie

[MzSade04]

E se! haha : )

[Bussie1981]

Question, why is it that you don't see many Hausa people here in the U.S or Europe, but you see alot of yoruba and igbo and other tribes.

[Spongyb]

'Cos majority go to Arab countries instead.

[philomelodia]

Very informative and interesting. I have one critique, if I may. Yoruba was exported to Latin America more recently than 200 years ago. Most of the Yoruba arrived in Cuba and Brazil (the main destination points) between about 1820 and 1850 due to wars with Dahomey which, incidentally, cause many Ewe, Fon-gbe and Ga people to be sent here as well. It was a terrible time. Relatively few Yoruba came across the sea before then. Mostly Congo and Angola people.

Latin American man.

[babesblingandbooze]

the "exportation" to latin america was done via slave trade....some of the enslaved africans were dropped off in latin america...they didn't migrate there (which is what you seem to imply)

[philomelodia]

Hello

I read my own comment and see how it can be misconstrued in the manner you say. I am very well aware of the fact that the Yoruba that came to the islands and mainland coasts of Latin America did so as slaves. I just thought it was self evident in the words exported and "they were sent here." I sought to be tactful in my phrasing since the subject is very painful and emotional to many. No disrespect intended. No, they certainly didn't migrate.

Good day.

[babesblingandbooze]

good day to you too :-)

[vjstone1]

This video is greatly appreciated. Please make more. Thank you.

[rednatsyb]

how can it be one of the world's top 50 languages yet only spoken by 30 million people? Nigeria alone is 138 million people

[MissNaija]

Ese pupo!! love this basic one, I'm igbo but spent my younger yrs in lagos so I know the basics but it's great to see it so I can share with friends or family, yoruba or non yoruba alike married to yoruba folks!

[materisi]

Yea motherland, I always represent. No doubt, ain't nothing better than the Yoruba culture, language, and proverbs. Awa ti ile ni yankee re o!!!

[mommyjaylon]

i am an american woman and i love africa and this language this is awsome thank you so much for this much luv

[chimpande]

are you white or black?

[mommyjaylon]

im white why u asked me this a long time ago sorryit took months to reply

[chimpande]

actuallly it took it 3 days so can u speak it well now?

[mommyjaylon]

@chimpande long time i havent learned yet

[Ogechi1972]

Give thanks for this. I have always wanted to learn.

[7thSecret]

It's fascinating! I love the sounds, they are natural and logical.

[mediadarling]

I am very happy to be learning this beautiful language. Thank you for the video.

[monifere]

this is wonderful!!!!

[AquilaChe]

this is great stuff!... thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

[LoVeRmAn1390]

adupe sir, owa very helpful. mo gbo yoruba dier ati mo fe to learn how to speak fluently, i just never wanted to earlier nisin, i really want to learn desperately. thank you for the help.

ese goni.

[chimpande]

mofe so yoruba fluently not mofe to learn how to speak

[kdlbm300]

Great.

Thanks for this interductory video. I think it is vary important for all africans in the despora not to lose contact with their roots.

I am please that you care to take the time to do this.

I will commit myself to learning this language and passing it to my kids.

Well done and thank you sir!

[Kaka4Milan]

Thanks you! e se e se! This is rly great!

[LornaMarshall]

Wow this is the best thing ever thanks soooo much ! now I can speak with my boyfriend in his own language ... he'll be so impresses lol xxxxxxxx odabo :D

[Tarkoituksenmukainen]

I think that's enormous loss of your cultural heritage.

[Tarkoituksenmukainen]

Only 13% of Yoruba speaking parents in Nigeria are passing their language to their children and the other 87% speak English only to their children, and as a result of this Yoruba is fast becoming an endangered language and at last it will die out. This is actually happening in many heavily urbanized regions in Africa where native language speakers are shifting to English, French or some other dominant language in that area which is used in education, advertising, movies, music etc.

[meetashley]

lie. how do u know?

[VraiDiouf]

Because it's true, look at Parents who both speak Yoruba, but when you see their kids they can't speak 1 word of it. That's true with Igbo people too, and diff Edo people (Bini). The only people who pass down their language are the Hausa, but you don't see many of them in America.

[meetashley]

its not true, they speak their language if they grow up in their land. but if they are born out side nigeria like Europe or America, its hard for them to speak their mothers language because the land she/he was born speak another language. but some understand their language but can"t speak. except that, they speak their language. on less they want to use english. so please.

[LilMisSsHAdy11]

though i'm ashamed to say this, i was born and bred in Lagos, grew up among Yoruba speaking parents and siblings, but i'm not very fluent in Yoruba. i do understand it tho.

[meetashley]

whatever that language sucks.

[omoibile]

Your comment sucks.. Get a life...jealousy ... you wish you can speak

[chimpande]

ok geek boy keep ur lecture away dont act like u know about africans u dont oloshi

[teminitotoo]

@Tarkoituksenmukainen Thats a BIG FAT LIE... overwhelming majority of yoruba speak the language very well.. PLS STOP LYING!!!!

[dzcer1]

I am a Nigerian, my father is Nigerian, but I do not know much Yoruba, well any Yoruba. I only speak English. thank you so much for this video, now I can say to my father Nje e le tumo eyi. haha. Adupe. E se.

[oluare]

thankyou very much, muito obrugado ose popo

[SupremePrincess]

e se!!!

[MinakoC]

E se! I'm just learning Yoruba even though my parents are both Nigerian and speak Yoruba. The reason why I don't speak Yoruba fluently is because I have been born in a foreign country(i'm still a child) This has helped me a lot. E se once again.

[Stickshift69]

Obrigado pelas licoes de Yoruba. Muito Obrigado.

E se!

[lopesalessandra]

I'm brazilian but i like Yorubá Adupé

[mctisha]

eto yi dara pupo fun awon to n sese ko ede Yoruba, o si muna doko!. e see gan. Adupe. A o si maa reti eko to jinle ju ba yi lo ni ojo iwaju.

[sudeepkumarjain]

Adupe.. very helpful for a fresh start

[khadijah02]

this was awesome. adupe!

[adelicious1]

Can you do some more of these...abeg

[0erh45]

Heh! what a voice!

[rumihab]

Ese gon. Please remember that Yoruba is spoken in Diaspora countries such as Cuba, Brazil, where Yoruba people were historically enslaved.

Thank You oo

[Yougetcho]

good stuff

[plutodrvv]

Thank you, this is an excellent help and very well presented. Clear and thorough. "O daa!"

[atlmuzikfanzinc]

thanks, this is really helpful.