This video teaches basic Yorùbá language concepts including daily activities (cooking, washing clothes, taking care of family), workplace vocabulary (office, work, study), and emotional expressions (happy, tired), while explaining key grammatical features such as splitting verbs and how verb usage changes based on context (e.g., mentioning or not mentioning food when cooking).
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Added:I am doing house chores.
I'm washing clothes.
I am cooking food. And I said that this this to cook when you want to use it when there's no food after it. When you didn't mention the food, you use you that means I'm cooking.
But if not tell us the food that you cooking is like J and J is used when the food is mentioned is used when the food is not mentioned.
>> Mhm. So it's like cooking food.
So when you use tou is like taking care.
I'm taking care of the children.
I'm taking care of my husband.
I'm taking care of my mother-in-law.
Mother of your of your husband. So this means to take care.
So taking care to take care is to do you understand it now?
>> Good.
So any question?
>> No.
>> All right.
So let's go to work. She share office. So this one is like we borrowed um word from you know English and we we say it in our own way. There's a way we do that. We borrow word from English and we say it in our own. It's like table and table and table. Yeah. So this one is office.
That's an office.
I work in an office.
I work in the market.
Mhm. So I am studying I am reading I'm learning.
So studying and learning I think sometimes the same thing is so this and is the same thing.
>> Yes. To learn to study you know.
>> So let's Yes.
So this one is asking where this person work. Where do you work?
Where do you work?
Is where do you walk? Shisha is walk.
So where do you walk? So when the person is older I want to say you know this one is for someone that is younger right that means the person is younger. So what about when the person is older how will you say it >> correct? So when the person is older when the person is younger when we have a group of people too how will you say it that's very good so I work in an office or I work in the Yes, office.
Office. Well, if you just want to tell the person, you know, the name of the place, you can just say then the name of the place.
>> Then the place where you do you love your work or do you love your job?
Okay.
Okay.
Do you love your job or you love your work?
Yes, I love it.
Right.
So, this one is for someone that is resting in the evening. Let's say I'm resting.
Okay. I'm watching television. You know television itself in Europe is but we can just you know we can just use like we know borrowed word from um English to we say tele. tele >> television. So we can also say the word or sometimes we can just say television.
Sometimes we just say TV you know most people say TV.
>> Okay.
>> I talk with my family.
So means family also means family. E B I E the B it also means family also means family Mumbai means I talk with my you know I'm talking with my family >> I'm preparing to >> talk with somebody >> yeah yes basuro You know, I'm preparing to sleep.
>> Yes. So, this one, you know, there are some uh words that they call verbs that they call splitting verb. Have you heard it before?
Okay. So, we also have splitting verbs in in Euroba language. We have bas.
So the the my family will now be at the middle like this now will be at the middle.
So if you can check I think I'll still do it on my channel too. Splitting verbs you know we we are doing pronoun right now. When we get there I'll do it too and I will explain it.
So this one is splitting verb and we split it and my family will not be at the middle.
>> Okay.
Mumbai, I'm talking with Mumbai.
>> I'm talking with my husband.
I'm talking with my mother-in-law.
>> Do you understand? It's like when you're having conversation with talking, you know, right now with >> Do you understand it?
Okay.
So this is So this lat here is two. This one I'm preparing to sleep.
One more relax.
Okay.
So, to the next one.
So talking about feeling during daily activities.
So when you happy at work like I'm happy at work, I'm very very happy at work today. How will you say you're happy at work today?
Like you were very very happy at work.
How would you say it?
Oh g a n like that very is gone. [laughter] >> Okay.
>> Gone.
>> Okay. So you put the very after.
>> Yes. The very will be after the like the the happiness.
Sometimes we might even say but let's leave it as I'm not feeling happy today.
So this is like you saying your your your stomach is happy like you you know.
>> Yes. So this one is like you're saying your stomach is spoiled when you say my I am I am not feeling happy today means something that spoiled. So but we cannot use direct translation for it like that.
I'm very happy at work.
You know that's when you're not happy.
When you use means not happy.
>> Sometimes you can just say >> yes I'm not happy. You can use that one too.
It means I'm not happy.
That means I am happy.
Any question about that?
So when you are tired you say when the person is tired the person but when the person is very tired the person will say but when the person is just tired just you I'm tired Yes. It's not is my friend. It's just the tone mark. When we get to a stage, we do the tone mark.
>> Okay.
>> Yes.
>> Yeah. Because my friend is >> Yes. So you have to say it in a way that will not you know the two marks very important.
I'm I'm tired.
I'm very tired. It's like I'm so tired, you know.
>> I rested like I rested. Well, let's say you now you are now back to the office and they say like I rested well.
>> Yeah. that.
So, this one is like, "How was your day?"
How was your day?
How was your day?
Means how was your day? It was good.
I did a lot of work.
Is a lot.
>> Okay.
>> Isa is work. Mo is like I did a lot of work. I did a lot of sugar that is but you see me dear I rested a bit dear means like a bit small I read is good was good is good or it was good.
>> Oda means something that is good. So if you want to say something is good, it's okay. Sometimes it's okay too is it's okay. It's it's fine.
I did a lot of work.
Yeah.
>> Are you happy?
You can also say so I think I I've done it in my, you know, videos.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. The and the same.
>> Yeah.
>> But 99% of us will say, "Are you happy?"
Are you happy?
You know, people fast when they're talking.
Yes, I am happy.
Yes, I am happy.
So now you want to say no, I am not happy. How will you say it?
>> I forgot to say >> think about it. No in your what?
But that's not it. That's five things.
Okay. [laughter] >> Sorry.
>> No, I'm not happy.
>> Yes. Correct. High five.
Yes.
Like that.
mute.
So this is the explanation I made in my video. The new video you said you have watched it.
>> So this one is someone older or group of people.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Yeah. So when the person is older or we have a group of people and you want to say how was your day, you say, "How was your day?"
Good.
We did a lot of work.
We right >> here.
You know >> can I ask?
>> Okay.
You know where it says people?
>> Why did you not put?
>> Because we use >> is like and we didn't use what they just like and we also you know some it's like we also rested a bit.
>> Oh yeah that's what I was going to say.
So we use acid for >> No no no not all the time. It depends on whatever you are talking about. You know this place you can use it like something you know it's like you saying something and you also did something. That was why I used it.
>> Yes. That's why I used it.
>> So you can say >> yes. Yes. Do you understand that?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> But are you allowed to say >> Yeah, you're allowed to say it. Of course.
>> Okay. So it's just another way to you know just to give it another Yes. That was why I put it there and you know Yes.
Yes. Are you happy for someone older?
This you are you happy? Yeah.
Benny.
So this one is talking to a group of people now.
But if the person is just older and the person want to respond, the person is older. The person will still say >> okay. But this is just for group.
>> Okay. This is like group of people they are the one answering it. Not that the person is older because when the person is older the person will still talk about his or herself like but if the person is have a group of people there they will say >> do you understand All right. So here you are going to give me your own different. You give me yours.
You know why is your face like that? You give me your sentence here. Now we have done a lot. So you give us different different things.
>> Okay.
>> So chair is a right >> table is tab or we can say table t e v u bed is ibos.
Yeah. Clo is ash.
shoe is better.
So I want to I want you to give me like we we can make three sentences right each.
>> Okay. Based on what we learned today >> with everything we have learned right we can do it. Okay.
>> Okay.
>> Can we try it?
>> Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. So, okay. Am I able to Okay, let me just I'll say it then you tell me if I'm wrong.
>> Of course.
>> Um, okay.
man.
Um, more.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. More. Okay.
More for No, no, no, no, no. More way.
>> More. Mhm.
>> Yeah. More way. Um, mosy law.
like went to sleep.
It's like It's not.
Can you hear what I said?
I said Do you understand it?
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