LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE Have you ever heard of the word tu? It means ‘to dig’ in Twi. If I want to say ‘keep digging’ I will say tutu. Do you notice that I have repeated or duplicated the verb?

In Twi, the whole or a part of some verbs are often duplicated to indicate a repeated action, a plural subject or a plural object. Sometimes the duplicated verbs have a slightly different meaning from the original verb. Read more …

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE When it comes to learning English, I think verbs and tenses create the most problems for a lot of non-English speakers. Let’s face it, English can be so complicated when you have to change words according to their situation.

For example:
We play football > She plays football > I played football > I am playing football > Read more …

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE In this blog post we shall learn about a few adjectives and how to use them in simple Twi sentences. By definition, Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. Below are a few Twi adjectives that you can add to your vocabulary. If you want to learn more Twi adjectives, get Nkyea Twi Primer. Read more…

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE One of the most confusing things with Twi language, to English speakers, is word arrangement. A lot of people get confused as to whether the verb should come before the noun or the conjunction should go after the noun etc. In this post we shall use simple Twi phrases to show how to use pronouns when speaking and writing in Twi. Read more…

LEARNING TWI LANGUAGE I get a lot of questions from foreigners these days about how to greet and respond in the Twi Language. Well I have added the basic greetings in Nkyea Twi Primer, but I think I can also share a few here. Just as in English, how we greet depends on the person (man, woman, old, young, honorable person etc.) and the time (morning, afternoon and evening). Read more…