Thursday, August 4, 2022

OKWU IGBO (IGBO WORDS): And their usage in a sentence

     

Okwu Igbo: Igbo Words, vocabulary

Vocabulary is key to learning any language. In other words, the quantity of words which you have learnt in a language shows how much you have mastered the language. Even if you are an expert in the construction of sentences in a language, if your vocabulary is poor, you still cannot express yourself with ease. Thus, this article presents to you some 20 Igbo words, their meaning and their usage in an Igbo sentence.


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  1. Bịa (Come : verb) : Bịa ebe a (Come here).
  2. Aha (Name : Noun) : Kedụ aha gị (What is your name).

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

MBE NA AMỤMA (THE TORTOISE AND THE LIGHTNING): The reason why the tortoise hides his head in his shell when it is raining

 

The Igbo Folklore is full of amazing stories from which we learn different lessons. They communicate life changing messages to us with a very lovely and interesting stories. Thus, today we are going to be reading to the story of why the Tortoise always hide inside its shell whenever there is Thunder and Lightning. 
The story is told in English and Igbo. Do well to drop in the comment section any Igbo word you could not understand.
Enjoy the story. 

The Tortoise and The Lightning