Host of the Onua Concert Party show on Onua TV, Aba Martins, popularly known as Ama Dhope, has shared a hilarious story of how she lost her job as a teacher twice in Ghana due to her bad pronunciation of  some English words.

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While telling her story of how she survived in China while she was furthering her education, Ama, during an interview on Berla Mundi’s “ The DayShow “on TV3, recounted her distress over common words that cost her two jobs in the Asian country.According to her, she knew nobody in China during her stay there, but she “was able to manoeuvre her through” because she took on side jobs such as teaching English in some Chinese schools.

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She recounts how she lost her first job over the mispronunciation of the lion, which took her out of what she anticipated to be another source of income for her survival.She said, “In China, I knew nobody, but I was able to manoeuvre my way through because I was doing some side business; I was teaching English. Our phonetics here in Ghana are quite different from those in China.

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@gh_hausa Does Ghana have its own English Language? @TV3 Ghana ♬ original sound - GH_Hausa Pronounciation of words like lion: where we were thought to pronounce it like "ly-yon," in China it is pronounced LY" + "uhn.  You won't get it easy with mispronunciations.

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After managing to get a second job, on another occasion, the comedy show host added, that“I didn't know that  Thursday should be pronounced as thuhz-day; we were thought 'Turz-day' , not knowing it was a dentine.  I was there and the owner of the school walked to me and ordered me to pack my bags because what I was teaching the kids was deadly.Same with my second school , there I lost my job again over the pronunciation of lion”.

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Ama Dhope is a TV host on Onua TV, a Ghanaian television station owned by Media General.She is the host of the Onua Concert Party show, a comedy and entertainment program that showcases local talents and celebrities.Ama Dhope became part of Onua TV in 2021, following her rise to popularity on TikTok.

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