The language or rather dialect of Jamaicans is being taught in many ways. Books by Joan Andrea Hutchinson, poetry of Ms Lou, the tapings of Miss Lou’s Tv series Ring Ding are a great start. Now even a audio patois version of the Bible is to be converted to a written version. Let the fun continue. Here’s Dr Suess, more can be found on You Tube. He reads the ABC book in the Jamaican patois/patwa.
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