Yeah she did speak good English,my Dad too who schooled in the UK. If you've ever heard of Delta Steel Company, the company I referred to in my blog, you would know that it had the best Engineers in the country at a time. A lot of them schooled abroad.
Now I'm wondering why I didn't include this is my blog. Well I'm very new to Inkwell. So it was English mostly English at home, a few times our native language, which we the children couldn't speak.
Also we lived in the company housing estate, shielded from the general world around us. I finished High School and I couldn't speak pidgin English, eventhough we were in the very land pidgin Engkish was at it's best! [well for non-Nigerians reading, pidgin English is an adultered form of English best spoken by Warri people]
So yeah the environment helped.
However, an innate thing was also there. My younger ones also heard what I heard from my parents, one of them who was more art inclined, even started a blogging site long before I ventured into writing, but she couldn't sustain it because of her poor writing technique.
She had a good command of English like we all do, but telling a story is different, understanding your audience and all that. My mum tried her very best to help this my sister until it was clear she couldn't cope.
Thanks for visiting brou.