The actress who hails from the Ashanti Region revealed that due to where she was brought up and the kind of job she does, many see her to be someone who has lost touch with her local dialect.
Jackie claims that she does understand every word in the Akan language and can quote a number of proverbs to back her claims but the only issue is that she is not fluent when it comes to delivery.
"I can speak twi, I understand but I’m not able to flow as others do, maybe due to my upbringing. I have a Canadian background so that could be one of the reasons.", she explained.
She also said that her situation was not alleviated by the fact that she works mainly with people who communicated with her in only English.
“Another is that I mingle with people who speak English and that also is not helping me but don’t worry I know my roots.
For all you know, I might produce a twi movie one of these days,” she said in an interview with Highlifetoday.
We don't know what prompted the mother of one and former ambassador of telecommunication network Glo to make such revelations, but we can only hope that she gets better in her birth language.
Source: yen.com
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Thank you all, I personally thinks she should checked herself and come again.
Honestly, I do not care whether she speaks akan or not. But she should stop blowing her own horns. She has a "Canadian background" and so what? was she born in Canada? Did she grow up in Canada - until when? Ongyai n'asem
These paint mament) women the least said about you the better. When she featured in the "Things We Do For Love" series in the early 2000's she was dark in color. Is she telling me that her complexion has changed as she grew up? I am not fascinated by this acquired complexion in the name of skin toning. It is in fact skin bleaching.
Mrs Appiah and supporters go to ***barred word*** and click halfcast girls Ghana
Canadian background, were your parents of European ancestory? I am Ghanaian Canadian my kids were born in Canada, I speak Fante and English with them, They speak Canadian English as well as Fante... When did you return to Ghana? 1000 years ago and you still cannot speak? Ese woara...
Please please, read the article well before commenting. She said she can speak Twi but not fluent because she's not been speaking it regularly,and that she's working on it. She even promised to release a Twi movie in the future. Be fair to the article.
Now give over woman! We tired of this bs already. U may have been born in Canada but u were brought back to Ghana when according to u in previous interviews, you were seven years old. Uve however lived in Ghana since and travel out every now and then. U don't mean to say it's taken u over two decades to somewhat learn a lil bit of twi? Are u having a laugh? Really? Or the usual inferiority complex some have about speaking our mother tongue is what is bothering you? Now the irony of your absurd claims and ridiculous excuses you keep given isn't even substantiated by your seemingly lack of fluency in the supposed English language, not to talk of not having the Canadian accent too. Wo brofo nso ny3 papabiaaa saa. So where from this ga*bage? If u like say you're not even Ghanaian, we won't give a flying hoot. W'aaa wo bankye aa. Menaya koraaa with the accent mpo speaks twi.
Was this girl not the one spreading her legs at an angle phi for Afriyie-Ankrah in the infamous Brazil world cup fiasco?? Afriyie-Ankrah can't speak Canadian english but can speak perfect twi and you Jackie Appiah can't speak twi but can speak perfect Canadian english. So my question to your inferior self is what language were you and Afriyie-Ankrah using in Brazil?
What Canadian background Jackie? Are you Justin Trudeau? You these Wannabe white girls will kill us in this country. You have all bleached every part of your bodies (except the thing), You speak locally acquired foreign accents, eat fufu with fork and knife now you can't speak your own local dialect. The sad part is that the white man never even respects us. Nkrumah's independence was only on paper, we were never liberated mentally. Ama Abebrese Appiah aka Jackie please listen to Fela Kuti's Yellow Fever.
Some Ghanaians and indeed some Africans suffer from inferiority complex and being proud of not being able to speak one's native Ghanaian and African language is one of the many ways in which this complex manifests itself. Some Ghanaians and Africans erroneously think that they will be deemed SOPHISTICATED? and POLISHED? AND perhaps more ACCEPTABLE? if they appear European in their ways and manners. True and proper education is not one that causes an individual to lose himself or herself especially into a culture that does not accept the individual as he or she comes. One of the BIGGEST and BEST education and ENLIGHTENMENT I have had living outside Ghana is that a man's CULTURE and IDENTITY is very important and one that cannot be toyed with. A well EDUCATED and CULTURED individual will not make such a statement.