Addendum.
One must add that such fluency in Yoruba or other languages is a necessarily STARTING point of usage in other linguistic cultural products of any language.
Just because a native English is born in London and can speak and write English proficient does not mean they will be excellent students of English literature. Many Yoruba of my generation did poorly in Yoruba subject in high school even though they were born and bred in Yoruba land and spoke fluent Yoruba. Many professor of Yoruba origin speak and write better in English than Yoruba. The same holds true for Igbo. This development serves as corrective to that. It also helps diaspora children a lit with minimal supervision from parents and colossal savings.
OAA.
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From: OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com>
Date: 26/06/2019 14:36 (GMT+00:00)
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian Languages Apps
You are correct. The learner will still need to interact with proficient speakers to reinforce skills learnt with the app. The apps can take him to that stage. The difference between classroom learning and apps learning as I discussed with ny Congokese-French student in 2017 is that the app is interactive by design in native language setting whereas the classroom setting is not. It is steps beyond above classroom setting.
OAA
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From: 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: 25/06/2019 23:58 (GMT+00:00)
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian Languages Apps
Prof. Agbetuyi: This is one heck of some good news! Although, I must add, even with this app (or these apps?) to learn any language to even a proficient, let alone a competent level, as Olmstead has long argued some five decades ago in his Out of the Mouth of Babes: Earliest stages in language learning, it will still require the human agent. That means we can't throw away the four corners of the classroom, neither can we ever discount "the physical confines of the geographical milieu of native speakers." I join you to salute the Primal Linguist and thank you for your laudable pursuit!
MOA
On Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 4:02:42 PM GMT+1, OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
Ladies & Gentlemen,
Im very pleased to report to this Forum that following our heartfelt appeal to persons of goodwill around the world about a year or two ago to facilitate the instruments of linguistic cohesion in Nigeria the Primal Linguist has heeded our call and hearkened, entered into the hearts of benevolence there to speak from.
Lo, this year is born the triplets of language apps for Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba the three widest spoken indigenous languages in Nigeria. With this development enter Nigerian languages into the committee of global languages of power to be studied around the world without stepping a foot into a conventional brick and mortar classroom nor within the physical confines of the geographical milieu of native speakers. A comparatist's paradise.
All praise be to the Primal Linguist
At the crossroads.
All praise be to the Great Levelller
Who carved out
A cavernous classroom
For the crossrads
Of Learning
Plumbed from the interstices of space.
An animistic classroom
--'without walls
To weld nations together
OAA
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