 
 <prompt> text: ```(CNN) -- Wen dem announce say dem wan build one big new canal wey go pass across Nicaragua, di young Hong Kong businessman wey dey lead di project talk say e know say many people dey doubt am. "We no wan make am become international joke," Wang Jing, wey be 40 years old and no get much engineering experience, talk. 

Na for June 2013, wen di Nicaraguan legislature, wey dey controlled by President Daniel Ortega, allow Wang to move forward with im five-year project. 

E no sure say di canal, wey go be one of di most ambitious and expensive engineering projects for Earth, go ever dey built. But e dey look like say e go move forward, and even some of di people wey dey doubt am dey start to reconsider. 

Last Thursday, di government and Wang's company, Nicaragua Canal Development Investment, announce say construction go start on Dec. 22. 

Di project dey estimated to cost $50 billion, wey be four times di size of di entire Nicaraguan economy. Di canal go deep pass, wide pass and long pass di Panama Canal, wey dey few hundred miles to di south. Panama Canal dey expand wey dey almost ready, wey make people dey ask why another costly canal dey needed. 

Di Nicaraguan opposition don call di project di biggest scam for di country history, and engineering experts dey divided on whether di project fit happen. 

Pedro Alvarez, wey be chairman of civil engineering for Rice University, don express doubts say e fit ever complete. E dey fear say e fit be abandoned. Im biggest concern na di severe damage wey fit happen to Lake Nicaragua, wey be di largest freshwater reservoir for Latin America. 

1. wetin happun last thursday?
2. when?
3. who talk say dem no wan make am become joke?
4. who e be?
5. from where?
6. wetin be di project wey e dey in charge of?
7. where?
8. who tell am to move forward for June?
9. how much di project go cost?
10. e pass di economy for there?
11. by how much?
12. why some people dey talk say e no dey needed?
13. which canal go big pass?
14. who be Pedro Alvarez?
15. how far di other canal dey?
16. Alvarez dey support di canal?
17. wetin be im concern?``` <response>: ```1. Dem talk say dem go start construction
2. Dec. 22.
3. Wang Jing
4. one businessman
5. Hong Kong
6. dey build canal
7. waka go Nicaragua
8. Nicaraguan legislature
9. $50 billion
10. yes
11. four times
12. The Panama Canal expansion
13. di new one
14. chairman of civil engineering for Rice University
15. some hundreds of miles
16. no
17. damage to Lake Nicaragua``` 