A man from Pakistan has taken to social media to share his experience as a foreigner who speaks pidgin English in Nigeria.
He shared that people get curious and surprised when they hear him speak fluent Nigerian pidgin English. They asked how he learnt the language, and he revealed he didn’t study it, but had been in Nigeria for over 10 years and picked up the language over time.
He confessed that speaking the language has helped him in some ways: when he goes to buy at the market, the sellers tend to inflate prices when they see him, but immediately he speaks the pidgin, they get to cut down on the prices.
The foreigner would challenge Nigerians to test his fluency in the comment section, as he doesn’t think there are words in pidgin that he doesn’t know of. This has got several netizens talking; a TikToker then asked him the difference between “gbes” and “gbese”, and he exclaimed, “Kaiii Watin be this ahh”. A lady then shed light on what they meant saying: “Gbes” means run oo 🏃,, while “gbese” means two different things, no.1 e means u Dey owe person big money, dat it u Dey owe big gbese. another one, means u don enter wahala…” The TikToker then hoped the foreigner has learnt new words.
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