{"id":12568,"date":"2025-08-13T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12568"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:44:11","slug":"i-scored-5-in-bece-twi-while-ghanaian-friends-had-6-7-kojo-choi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12568","title":{"rendered":"I scored 5 in BECE Twi while Ghanaian friends had 6, 7 \u2013 Kojo Choi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghana\u2019s Ambassador-Designate to South Korea, Kojo Choi, has shared a personal academic experience to emphasise his deep cultural integration and Ghanaian identity.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Channel One TV\u2019s Face to Face with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Tuesday, August 12, Mr. Choi recounted how he excelled in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Twi, despite not speaking the language fluently when he first came to Ghana.<\/p>\n

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Kojo Choi and Prez. Mahama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t speak Twi when I first arrived in Ghana. I attended SOS Junior High School in Tema, and that\u2019s where I learnt it. I had an aggregate 5 in Ashanti Twi for BECE, while my Ghanaian friend, who is fully Ghanaian, had six, and another had seven. I had a pass mark, but it\u2019s not easy to get that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Choi explained that his early education at SOS College, a boarding school, restricted students to speaking only English, French, or Swedish. \u201cI was privileged to pick pidgin language as my third language,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n

The diplomat added that his exposure to various cultures across Ghana also shaped his linguistic abilities. \u201cI used to go to the Upper East Region when I was very young, and because they speak just the Frafra language, I can speak a little,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Fluent in Twi and conversant in Frafra, Mr. Choi stressed his Ghanaian roots. \u201cI am a full Ghanaian; I don\u2019t hold any other passport apart from the Ghanaian passport. This is my home,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghana\u2019s Ambassador-Designate to South Korea, Kojo Choi, has shared a personal academic experience to emphasise his deep cultural integration and Ghanaian identity. Speaking on Channel One TV\u2019s Face to Face with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Tuesday, August 12, Mr. Choi recounted how he excelled in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Twi, despite not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":12569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,41,18],"tags":[1193,3759,3880],"class_list":["post-12568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-bece","tag-ghana-news","tag-kojo-choi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12572,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions\/12572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}