Black people do you speak any other languages other than your native one?

Question

i was thinking of learning russian but i don't know any russian people and i heard there not that open to blacks anyway.

i was also thinking about french,spanish and portuguese but i don't like the fact that they colonised black people.

if i learn a another nations language do you think they will think I'm trying to become one or them or that i wanna be like them or that I'm kissing up

Answer 1

When traveling in Manhattan away ask a Black person for directions.

They will respond in plain English or with a neat Jamaican accent. Too many whites I've asked in NY don't speak English at all or speak with such a bad  accent that I can't understand them.

BTW I speak English and Lithuanian.

United States doesn't have a national language, but there is an international language of business. It is English.

If you are a female learn to speak with a French accent.

It drives American men crazy.

Answer 2

Are you really judging an entire culture based on what their ancestors did? I don't hate Japanese people just because their grandfathers bombed Pearl Harbor - that's insane.

Learn the language that sounds the most interesting to you, and forget about their past. Learn their current culture.

And you'd be surprised at how amazed people are when you try to speak their language. The Italians especially, the older generations nearly break down crying when an American attempts to say "I would like a pizza." We don't go out of our way to speak "not English" so often that we really impress people when we finally do.

I personally find it liberating to be able to have a direct line to someone's thoughts and opinions, without it being filtered by translation. I love learning languages - I want to learn them all! :)

Answer 3

Hello,

I am a black person and i speak a few languages. Yes sometime i get that people tink you want to be like them for you rto want to speak their language but that isn't the case for a language learner. People have told me do i know anyone that speaks that language or am i in conenction with someone with that language the case is no. i just enjoy learning new things and languages are one of them.  

Answer 4

Hi Bomber,

Como ca va Bomber,

?Holo, Como estas usted Senor Bomber?

It's awful to even imagine what our African ancestors suffered under the hands of their opressors isn't it?

But deeper than that is the fact they over came. In some parts of the world we have a long way to go but life is so much more hopeful for us than it was to them.

I thank them every day for every spiritual they sang, and every prayer they prayed, for taking the whip and having their children taken away from them and sold to God only knows where, I could go on right.



In reverence of those dark skinned people I try to learn as much as I can about the world and about life itself. They were not allowed to speak their own languages, how sad. For them I speak 3 languages. English, French, and Spanish. My great grandfather was a porter for the railroad and spoke 6, count them 6 different languages and could write in three of them. His skin was black like soot. He was born sometime around 1864 and 1868.  For all that has been and still is being stolen from us, ha. Learn the language. Bling Bling was coined by Lil Wayne, they've tried to make it theirs. Be yourself, be worldly, be intelligent, be wise, learn, learn, learn, and most important of all honor those who suffered not so many yrs ago and perhaps are laughing with the angels now that we can learn all these languages and hold our heads up and soar. Think of what they went through and learn not of what they suffered and refuse to let yourself learn. If you do this, their suffering will have been in vain.

Good bye

Adios

Answer 5

Where are you from originally? Do you speak Yoruba, Ibo or Fulani? You can learn any language you want to. It's true that some countries are more racist than others, but learning their language is a great step on the way to mutual understanding.

Why does Poppyvox think racism is a white privilege?

Answer 6

Don't you want to be free and play a part in this world? I do.

Answer 7

You can always try Finnish or Korean. They never colonized anyone, and both languages are somewhat connected as members of the Ural-Altaic language family, funnily enough.

Answer 8

Try learning brazilian portuguese, that besides being really s**y is the language of the colonised and not of the coloniser, or you can learn portuguese of someone from angola, mozambique...  

Answer 9

Spanish is your best bet - it's very widely spoken, and will become more so as the old Spanish colonies continue to grow in their own right.

Furthermore - if you're concerned about Colonial history, and are taking that into account as you choose which language you wish to speak, you probably shouldn't be asking this question in English...

Answer 10

bro! if that would be the case..no one would be learning other languages then!! just learn any thing you like..why don't you try spanish? latino countries are close and a lot "mamacitas" like "morenos" (black guys) anyways.

Answer 11

Try learning Swahili, the language of Tanzania. It's part Bantu and part Arabic and entirely different than English in almost every way.

Just to get you interested, the word Kwanza traces back to ku anza meaning to start and the Swahili word for lion is simba, just like the movie. You can learn a lot about African cultural roots doing this too.

Answer 12

try japanese

Answer 13

Didn't the English also colonized black people? South Africa????? Your logic for not learning a language is flawed.

Check your history.

Answer 14

Try learning,Welsh, come join us...............Hope you find what your looking for.

Answer 15

naw who cares! it's amazing to learn new languages. Just go for it! I think portuguese would be awsome.

Answer 16

If you're asking to learn a native African language, there is Swahili - the national language of Kenya and Tanzania, and also used in Uganda and DR Congo. There are over 1000 different native African languages though, from Yoruba, Igbo and Akan in West Africa to Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho in southern Africa.

But the easiest is probably Swahili. It is a Bantu language which has mixed considerably with Arabic and Persian, and evolved as a trade language in East Africa. It is therefore a lot easier to learn than most other languages.  

Answer 17

A black racist. Hi.

Answer 18

I speak 4 languages. Out of those I speak 3 fluently, Ndebele, French and English. My greek is a bit off :-( but I could get by.

My dad is Greek (Yea I'm a mix) mum is Ndebele (Zimbabawean)

ok, enough about how black I am lol, ok, ok, I would've picked Spanish if I was you. Because it is more popular than french (I think)

You can't nto learn a language because black people got colonized, yeah it sucks but this is the 21st century and you have to think logically.

Answer 19

lol, just learn what ever one makes you happy. I wanted to learn Spanish then i kept thinking about the racist thing, but i doubt its even that bad.