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Coz...they are ashamed?
June 1, 2004 - 01:45 AM
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Why didn't each character in the monthly theme page speak in their native language? It is ironic that they speak in english yet complain the internet is in english.
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Re: Coz...they are ashamed?
June 1, 2004 - 03:46 AM
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Put your headphones on...(there is a soundtrack)
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Re: Coz...they are ashamed?
June 3, 2004 - 06:57 AM
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E yin eyan mi lati Ilu karo ojire. E ku eto oselu in ilu wa AFRICA. E je ki a gbe asha wa laruge. Ka ma so ede abinibi wa daradara ki o ma ba ku. Awon onimo iwulo ede wipe ose mejimeji ni ede n'ku si. Eje ka ma so ki ede ati asa wa titi ayerye
That was me writing in my mother tongue yoruba language
Yoruba is one of the major tribes in Nigeria. Although many dialects exist in yoruba like Ekiti and Ijesha to mention a few, they are almost becoming extinct among the youths of today. Yorubas generally prefer speaking the 'main' yoruba language since it cuts across Yoruba land ignoring the 'minor' ones to the detriment of them.
What I wrote is translated thus
My people and kins men of our great land, I greet you and congratulate you as you steer the course of our great continent. It is expedient that we have to promote our culture. We should speak our mother-tongue with great pride. Lingiustic professionals tell us language dies every two weeks, please let us keep these languages alive by speaking it always, thus promoting the legacy out elders left for us
God bless Africa
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Our Languages are dying
June 19, 2004 - 09:14 AM
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I have followed the discussion on languages and i will like to say from my point of view that our languages are fast dying out.
The reason for this death is not far fetched from my view. The incursion of what is referred to as neo colonialism into our wourld (African society) is fast eatihng our languages up. young Africans except those in the rural areas that have not been touched by this neo colonialism are the only ones that for now still hold on to our languages. In the bigger and mordern cities of Africa, we are all trying to emulate the so called developed world that even our media has now been invaded by this greater consumer of our culture. It is fast eating up everything that we stand for as we now find out that once an African is educated, he invariably is now westernized and everyhting that is African becomes bag or obselete including oru languages.
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Re: Coz...they are ashamed?
September 26, 2004 - 03:40 AM
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I'm rather new here, so I don't know about the monthly theme talked about in the first post. But I can completely understand the part about the importance of a native language. I'm from India, a country that has 18 official languages (inclusive of English, I might add); and around 400 lanaguages and dialects. Each region has its own language and dialects. My parents are from a state called Orissa but me and my siblings have rarely lived there. We've always lived in rather cosmopolitan cities and the language I first learned to speak was English, not the Oriya of my parents. But after a while, I realised how much I wanted to be able to speak the langauge of my parents and other languages of my countrymen. I now know two Indian languages rather well -- Hindi and Oriya. And while English is still the langauge I'm most comfortable with, I'm raring to doscover more of the beauty of the languages of my land.
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Danny Sweeney
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Re: Coz...they are ashamed?
October 14, 2004 - 07:12 AM
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Languages are one of the things we need to try to keep alive in our world. Both my grandparents are (well were before retierment) language professors - which does make it a bit disgraceful that i only speak english.
There are some languages on this planet which only a few people in the world speak - e.g - the Jarawa tribe in India
http://www.survival-international.org/jarawa.htm
and thousands more - we should try to preserve as many languages as possible.
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Lim
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Coz...they are ashamed?
November 8, 2004 - 08:25 AM
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The reason I didnt speak proper Mandarin is because my parents did not encourage me to speak Mandarin when I was young. In addition to that, I was always showered with english books and my neighbours were eurasian. The only people who speaks Mandarin to me are my parents and my relatives.
However, after I have started to realise that learning your own mother tongue is equally as important. My sister was just complaining that she cannot communicate with my mom and dad because she cannot think of that right words in Mandarin. I admit that sometimes, I get pretty irritated too because I cannot get the right translation to Mandarin hence, my parents will have a hard time understanding us.
Nonetheless, I am still learning my Mandarin,Japanese and Spanish everyday. I might not be as fluent as a native speaker. But, I will make sure that it is alive and kicking and not dead. I do not want to be like some Americans who only know how to speak English and English only.
That is so boring!
Shirley McSalad with Blackcurrant and Peach
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Brian
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Re: Coz...they are ashamed?
November 9, 2004 - 03:26 AM
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I applaud you shirley for your efforts!
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Gene Winston Owens, Sr.
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Are U Sure???
March 7, 2005 - 12:44 PM
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Shirley??? Did You notice that you changed the Thread Title? I have miss placed some of the Threads because that happens here at T.I.G., some times. Your parents just want you to have a better life but tell them that it is good to communicate in more than one
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Jennifer Rong
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Re: Coz...they are ashamed?
March 16, 2005 - 06:50 AM
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language is a way of communciating that has branched off into different country languages, regional dialects and sub dailects. it's a way of expressing ourselves to the 'outside world'and in that sense all types of languages should be preserved, whilst new forms should be encouraged. it would be nice if there was more awareness about the importance and significance of langauge and why we should be proud of what langauge we speak. language isn't just a set of words and phrases it also represents the history/culture of a set of people e.g. phrases in one language have no meaning for another.
what really annoys me is when people can speak another language fluently but have no respect for the native speakers of that language. how does that work out? when we speak a language we are expressing ourselves in the way a set of people thought best convey the world and therefore we are speaking a culture. how can you speak something which you don't even respect?
or even more annoying is when people look down upon you because of what language you speak. every language is as equally great as another and therefore no one should be looked down because of it.
be proud of the language/s you have inherited. they make the uniqueness not only of you but of the world
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