General News of Saturday, 18 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Hawa Koomson has spoken about her modest use of English words• She is proud of her past two-decade long teaching experience• She is happy and content with her kind of basic EnglishMinister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mavis Hawa Koomson has explained her difficulty in expressing herself using 'big' vocabulary. For some people, English speaking and articulation was not a measure of competence whiles others argued that as a representative of the president there was the need for a minimum level of fluency to better discharge her duties. But I taught in the public school and I also taught the small ones. “With the GES, we believe that you need to communicate and communicate well to the child’s understanding and so we don’t use big words and that is why I don’t use big words. “But sentences that I can also use to defend myself as we are doing (I am speaking English even though once in a while I use Twi)… but then I don’t know why the people keep saying… Yes, I don’t speak big English, my kind of ‘brofo’ is what I speak,” she told show host Paul Adom-Otchere.
