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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DO NOT MIND HER,JUST 5 YEARS OO ,AND SHE WILL NOT LET US HAVE SOME PEACE.EVEN THE WHITES LEARN THE TWI ,ENOUGH OF THAT. YEABRE WO JACKIE.
THIS A CLEAR SIGN OF POST COLONIAL TRAUMA SYNDROME .YOU ARE HAPPY YOU CANT SPEAK YOUR MOTHER TONGUE AND YOU ARE SAYING IS BECAUSE YOU WENT ON VACATION IN CANADA. YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO YOUR COUNTRY.
"Canadian background" is your father or mother a canadian? u only lived there for sometime so why are you pretending as if you have lived there all your life what kind of faking is this eeeiii am shocked mpo! that is why the nigerians are way ahead of us in terms of delivery cos no matter how elite they are they dont feel shy of their accent and language. but for our Ghanaian actresses and actors they all want to speak english with the white man's accent and pretend they cant speak their native language. Seriously, i never watch a movie where jackie is playing a role of a village girl cos it seems soo fake and irritating! warris dis?
GUYS, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THOSE WHO WERE BORN BLACK, BUT DIED WHITE? KUMCHAACHA HAS A WORD FOR THEM.
then u r ***barred word*** if u cant speak twi and u r not shy u feel proud saying it too smh
liar you went to school at one of this secondary schools at circle. You live at Nii Boye town and you are telling me you can’t speak Twi?
Ei, then it's a problem because the English self koraa she's not on top of it biaa saa without script. Born in Canada? 😁 Even white men and women are speaking Twi. Let her continue to mislead and misjudge herself.