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 …

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 …

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 …