subject: Top Reasons To Learn Yoruba [print this page] When you want to learn a language, then usually the first few choices could be English, Spanish, French, German, and Arabic to name a few. There is one more language which is last but not the least YORUBA, a local West African language gaining popularity in North America.
Now the question arises why would someone learn Yoruba, which is not as popular as other foreign languages? As many as ten million people from the Yoruba tribe migrated to North America in 1950s. The descendents of these tribes are now helping to raise awareness of Yoruba culture by forming organizations so that they can help these tribes economically while working actively for the promotion of Yoruba interests. If you want to be a part of these organizations, then Yoruba can be an interesting topic for you.
The majority of the Yoruba people live in Nigeria and Nigeria is a developing country. Since many countries of the world are passing through a recession period, the infrastructure companies are actively taking interest in developing infrastructure facilities in developing countries like Nigeria. By knowing Yoruba, you will have better job opportunities in these companies.
Another good reason why you must learn Yoruba is for touristic purposes. Going abroad is daunting when you do not understand the local languages. As Africa is becoming a tourist hot spot, it is important to have a basic understanding of the different languages. Once you have learnt Yoruba, learning other languages will be relatively easy as you will have the basics.
Yoruba is also helpful for those who want to work for NGOs that help the people of Yorubaland to adopt new technologies in agriculture and other such projects. Missionaries learn Yoruba so that they can translate the holy books and spread their teachings.
Learning Yoruba is made easy in todays world. On any search engine, when you type learning Yoruba, you will get numerous websites which will tell you where to locate schools that teach Yoruba. In libraries, a variety of books are available which teach the basics of Yoruba. Alternatively you can also download language software to help you learn Yoruba at home.
