{"id":1206462,"date":"2022-09-17T22:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T22:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/17\/i-pretend-i-dont-speak-twi-when-i-meet-ghanaians-here-uk-based-ghanaian\/"},"modified":"2022-09-17T22:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T22:43:40","slug":"i-pretend-i-dont-speak-twi-when-i-meet-ghanaians-here-uk-based-ghanaian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/17\/i-pretend-i-dont-speak-twi-when-i-meet-ghanaians-here-uk-based-ghanaian\/","title":{"rendered":"I pretend I don\u2019t speak twi when I meet Ghanaians here &#8211; UK-based Ghanaian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3db8b516c49e428899ed975d1bd495bc\"\/>UK-based Ghanaian Nana Boadu Gyan has disclosed that he often pretends that he is not Ghanaian when he meets other Ghanaians in England.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on SVTV Africa, Nana Gyan mentioned that he pretends because, according to him, the Ghanaian community abroad is the \u2018bedrock of many problems.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t know anyone before coming here, but as soon as you get here, they want to poke their noses in your matter. Immediately they find out something about you it becomes a topic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not someone who would meet a Ghanaian and would want to make friends with them. I will help if you need it, but I\u2019ve never visited any Ghanaian since I got here,\u201d Mr Gyan noted.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on life in the UK, Mr Gyan revealed that he gets depressed, sometimes especially when things don\u2019t turn out as planned. He added that, unlike in Ghana, they overwork themselves to settle their bills and rent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes I get frustrated because you\u2019ve worked and might be expecting a result in this time frame, but it doesn\u2019t come like that. The hustle here is hard, but it gives you experience and makes you stand strong,\u201d Nana added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kindly watch the full interview below;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Pretend I Don\u2019t Speak Twi When I Meet Ghanaians Here - UK-Based Ghanaian Reveals Matters\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-Zdzzkxvmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SVTVAfrica.com (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nGyan<br \/>\nNana Boadu Gyan<br \/>\nSVTV Africa<br \/>\nUK<br \/>\nUK-based<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based Ghanaian Nana Boadu Gyan has disclosed that he often pretends that he is not Ghanaian when he meets other Ghanaians in England.\u00a0 Speaking on SVTV Africa, Nana Gyan mentioned that he pretends because, according to him, the Ghanaian community abroad is the \u2018bedrock of many problems.\u2019 \u201cYou didn\u2019t know anyone before coming here, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[342,1750,834,1156,20512,6255,11653,10445],"class_list":["post-1206462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-dont","tag-ghanaian","tag-ghanaians","tag-meet","tag-pretend","tag-speak","tag-twi","tag-ukbased"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}