Learn to Speak Jamaican

UNICEF UK Youth Voice trip to Jamaica: UNICEF Youth Adviser Joel takes lessons in Patois (the Jamaican language) from a young man from the Portland AIDS Committee. The Committee raises awareness in Jamaica about HIV and AIDS. The language lesson includes how to say 'hello, how are you?' and 'that girl is good-looking'!

For more information about UNICEF Youth Voice, visit our website:

www.unicef.org.uk/youthvoice.

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• jamaica
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[NuggetFu]

Now I wonder how you say "bacon" in Jamaican...

[imJustThaCoolest]

@fred19992010

so how can a small minute number of people YOU KNOW affect the way you view my country

you sound like an unsociable ignorant little shit, that's probably why you know these so called 'savages'

YOU are who you surround your self with

just pure negativity coming from you,

[ericjungleboy]

@loydwesley Why not call it "Jamaican"?

[ericjungleboy]

Jamaican is a language. Most people don't know that because Jamaicans always mix it up with English because they learn to speak English in school and in formal situations, and they are told that Patois is just a slang or dialect of English. But really, in fact, it is a language of its own when it is spoken without English mixed into it. Sure it came from English, but only partly. African languages provide most of the syntax and grammar. The vocab mostly came from English, but it changed a lot.

[loydwesley]

@NuggetFu its patois not jamaican... and its simply bacon stupid

[fred19992010]

@Rikuyochan

Oh, so you are not going to sit there while I disrespect your people? So what exactly are you going to do about it?

You also need to come out of the sinful, Antichrist Catholic church - "...the seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits" - REVELATION 17.

[Rikuyochan]

@fred19992010 First of all Jamaicans don't eat people. Sure we have tiny bit of vodoo from our African descendants but voodoo does not have cannibalism or curses. Movies only make voodoo look bad. Voodoo people believe in God not the Devil and they worship God. I'm Catholic by the way but just explaining facts.

I will not sit here and allow you to disrespect my country because i'm pretty sure you wouldn't want me to disrespect yours.

[simone8559]

@TheMiller22 lolz him look wired