Speak Hausa

My hausa is very fluent what I find that really helped was my Mom started speaking to me in Hausa since I was baby and then I went to Ghana for the first time when I was four and I was with my Mom’s side and they all speaked Hausa so that really helped me alot.And it was REALLY shocking for my whole family cause now if I listen to Hausa songs I grab the words wayyy faster than English words it was kinda weird though.

Hausa is an important spoken language on my paternal side (northern Ghanaian), and I’d love to get fluent in it as its tied in with my heritage (plus me not wanting to be baffled or get suspicious at family get-togethers). But frankly, mine is dismal at present. I can either greet people or insult them: “Aiwa Mallam, barka da safe! ina kwana?... ah! ina ruwana da kai? Banza wofi!”.. which is not helpful to either sustain conversations or make new friends lol

I’m currently trying to get the basics, but its quite hard as there are not many Hausa speakers here, its a tonal language with many dialects and I’m embarrassed to go up to family members (some I haven’t kept in touch with for a while) to ask them “Oh hi! How would I say this in Hausa?”.

I’m currently uses a few websites to grasp the basics, including http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/aflang/hausa/, which has been very useful. I’m afraid that at present since I’m deeper into learning Japanese that I might muddle things up, but this is definitely a long term plan! :)

help!!! me please

i would like to learn to speak,write,and understand hausa because that is shys language at home in accra ghana

...”speak more Hausa” or better yet “understand Hausa fluently so that I know what the wives are snickering about at the ‘women’s table’ during gathering and hope that it’s not about me”

For now, though, off this list this goes as I’m in a paring down kind of mood.

Must maintain what I know so far.