LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE In Ghana you hardly hear people counting numbers in Twi, except when they are doing transactions where the range is 0 to 10. With numbers greater than 10, most people switch to English. It is only during Twi programmes on the radio or when you visit places like Kumasi and Sunyani that you hear people saying huge numbers in Twi. Read more …

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE Do you know how to properly pronounce all the Twi words you come across? If you don’t, don’t worry at all. There are a lot of extremely fluent Twi speakers who can’t read or write any Twi. This is because Twi is more of a spoken language than a written one. Twi is written with a script developed by the Bureau of Ghana Languages.

In order to be able to read in any language, you much know its alphabet and digraphs before you even start learning the basic grammatical rules. Read more …

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE If you have been on our Facebook page or our Twitter account lately, you would have come across posts that begin like “5 dress accessories you should know in Twi” or 5 animals you should know in Twi”. This is proving to be very helpful for beginners because it is educative and fun to learn all these things. Read more …

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE It can be very embarrassing and frustrating when you find yourself face to face with a Twi speaker and can’t speak a single word, let alone start a simple social conversation. Wouldn’t it be great to know just a few Twi icebreaking phrases to help you out? Read more …

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE Have you ever been lost finding a place in Ghana before? It can be a very unpleasant situation if you can’t speak a shred of Twi. In Ghana, you always bump into people who speak very little or no English at all except their native Twi language. When you meet such people, how are you going to ask them to give you directions? Read more …