selam, im here cause I wanna perfect my patwa, i got the dialect but i dont speak it perfect, im ethiopian livin in the us, my girls jamaican. if you ask me, we're the same *lo**. I learned patwa from my cousins in sheshemene when i went to visit them in ethiopia. it's straight jamaica over there, if you ask me we're the same *lo**, i know so many jamaicans that look exactly like my full *lo** ethiopian brothers and shit. in my eyes, jamaicans are part of the ethiopian diaspora.
anyway im going to kingston this summer to stay with my uncle and my girls family for a while and ima get patwa down pact from these forums.
Typing patois is one thing, but talking is another... hope you get some audio. start by watching some jamaican comedy, i'm not talking the american made-up ones. But the true oliver samuels and titus and rapunzel.