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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …