MISCELLANEOUS As you may know, Nkyea Learning Systems develops and sells an iPhone app for learning to speak the Asante Twi language, called Nkyea Twi Phrasebook – you can read about how we make it here, or see it on the App Store here. From user feedback it seems that a lot of people find our app very useful and a lot of fun in learning to speak Twi and have given it raving reviews on the App Store. Read more …

MISCELLANEOUS Ghana’s currency is known as the cedi (¢). US$1 is approximately equivalent to ¢1.45. When you are in Ghana you can exchange all the major world currencies for cedi coins and notes from a lot of banks and forex bureaus.

So how do you ask a Twi speaker to show you the bank? How about the current exchange rates? What would you say when you want to exchange large bills for small ones? Read more …

MISCELLANEOUS First of all, Happy Social Media Day to every body. We read a lot of blog comments, Facebook post and Tweets that go like “I want to learn Twi” and “I need to learn Twi quickly” these are very good for our business as we teach and sell Twi language products. Read more …

MISCELLANEOUS The World Cup is currently ongoing in South Africa, but for those of us who could not make the trip we are going to be glued to our TV sets. Okay, so what has a Twi article got to do with soccer, which is not even being played in Ghana?

Have you thought of the fact that you might watch some matches in a Twi person’s house or maybe at a pub or bar in Accra or Kumasi? Read more …

MISCELLANEOUS So why do you have to learn the Ghanaian language, known as Twi anyway? Well, I have outlined eight reasons why I think learning to speak Twi will be beneficial to any non-Twi speaker especially an American or an European. Read more …