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seen 60 minutes on d, w d w, this is the name of it is available. and it has never been since we used to be forced to speak english. why we we can from becky ground of speaking . so here we have been raised on imply, healy, yeah. no, i've been told go stories and so he no longer reading it is what he needs and all the writing your you, you lose your identity. we are just allowing her languages to die and we are bracing languages that are not ours. go to the right language, it does not only embrace communication, but also shapes or identities. how is seeing how we perceive the world? it 1st as the core of our existence. this is a highly personal motto, right? and today we're taking a closer look at why that is nearby to jump on again. my name is 5 to illegal

mendoza and welcome to the 77 pass and show on language is did you know that more than 2000 separate and distinct languages spoken in one of africa? the largest 40 as spoken by more than a 1000000 people? you might also be fascinated by people who speak multiple languages. the average person can learn 2 to 4 languages in the lifetime, so i can see that those are speak more to be extraordinary pollock. let's take, for instance, this missouri and molten and what, who taught himself. 5 new languages in just for you is amazing abraham jaya biome. the boy that is the way it was easy, those boxes, he brought him learned arabic, french, german, portuguese, and spanish. all in the course of just full year on year and we spent this long to do this. people did go wow under, they'll like, i'll come,

i was able to learn it that much to the, to, to pronounce it so well without i've been lived in, in the places where the languages are spoken. it's a very fair question. the trick abraham says is to start with a basic foundation of vocabulary and then to find for you to of opportunities to practice. luckily, the cosmopolitan metropolis of lagos office. plenty of those today he brought, he is visiting his favorite lunch spot, running to buy french speaking playgrounds, from neighbor infiniti. also i was just doing a sub for the nc most is you know, good wanted to live in a place where it's hard to find someone to practice your new language on. well, it just goes online and checks with his target language. so he learns his 1st words, goes online and makes print world wide language. you have to make something commitment, which doesn't come cheap. i use along with this every other day at also on my job.

i'm currently a translator translates english to. a spanish to watch these on from government to english also, but really that hard work, you can build up and advertise the cool heading home. abraham stops off for a swamp at one of lagos, as many lebanese beach, there's somebody i like to set up. and the show up is a come from being able to walk anywhere in the world regardless of way of from that is the opportunities and daddy's that paula in long beach. can you see that jerry alone has more than 500 indigenous languages? so why does abraham focus on learning foreign languages instead of local ones is some of you have also asked me to speak more local languages, not just english. i feel the language, it gives people a sense of belonging to. so i asked to my colleagues if they feel any pressure to

learn additional languages, the local or foreign ones and how they cope with the so called colonial lingua franca. i'm guess why they are in front, they like to do this, you know, the advocate department coming together as one big group and during lunch. do you feel any pleasure of speaking more look at language is i feel pressure because the my country is a very diverse country and i think in order to make if you need to speak another person's language, i can barely speak. uh, so every time you go somewhere, the expect you to be able to speak in the language. there's also a link by franco, which is from a different parts of the country where everyone else speak this lingua franca, a local language so. so the front gray is the chief, which is the language of the assigned to you. do you precise speaking? your local lingua franca to a foreign one is a tough guy, said joe, i'll come back to you just think about sometimes we want to go to place because you know the language. maybe you want to buy something, but the price changes. so when you put all of this things together, i just feel yes, the pressure could be there, but it's a small beneficial i think. what about the pleasure of speaking more foreign

language is, isn't it exhausting already? to be able to have to speak more looking language at then if it's exhausting, but i think it's important when you enroll me do what the romans do. but what about if you are in your own country and you have to speak as a foreign language, for example, it's also i'm problem and create so many other problems because the key, which is the one guys from a different ethnic group, everyone knows it's like we want our language also good that seem permanent, but if we all just speak english them, you can avoid that conflict. but it's nice to speak local languages too because there's a lot of quotes of being lost now between the pressure of learning your local languages and learn and foreign languages where those attention like they're not as readily available as lending democrats. this way i can just download to a link or something. you think it's a, it's an issue of uh, access as well. well, i don't know. it shouldn't be. it definitely should not be if it is been does a big problem because we are just allowing our languages to die and to but we are

in bracing languages that are not ours. and that would take us again to south africa. well, 11 languages have been recognized in their constitution as measuring the language. you see that people have to speak english official language. how do you feel that the english is the main language? it's not, it's not really that big a deal. it's a, it's a good thing because it gets the message across easier. there's nothing wrong with it since the defense on childs and cultures. and so we understand each other. so really speaks english and other young people today feel about the role of english interventions. i think they so quotes, cuz even though in case we want them to speak english because that's the language that makes things easier even when you go abroad. okay, that's a pretty clear one. for these young south africans, english is a good thing. but let's take a closer look at the base right door speaking english, for example, always help bridge the language divide or does it separate us from our identity

even more we put out a port on our socials. it was a pretty even split. 52 percent of our respondents, one to colonial languages, published by 48 percent believe that they should stay of was english is an important language in international commerce education under digital fat. so is there a way to promote local languages? what also staying connected with the rest of the world? it is kemati or roberts, this tricky topic. you know, a strict debate intends on the, the hello and welcome back to the 77 percent. this week we are in one of my favorites, which is in africa, the rest of them tons of media. now did you know that the over a 100 languages spoken here and yet so he remains a national language. in fact, tons of media until recently was only one or 42 countries in africa to have that. as of today we are asking why is it that we choose these impose languages when we

have so many to choose from who but the 2 assets, then some fellow tons and he is. and i just want to start to be a general question, right. how many of you speak more than 2 languages? who speaks of these 3 languages? at least really well, at least for ok. so let's start to review the last one, who is a student here in terms of the a he's actually from a from ghana. so a club, so what languages do you speak? so i speak english now to say you alex s b, i kind of a cheat analysis, this house that you also see casa for language. and so how many languages do you speak? 2 languages, which ones are name in english. okay. so is it normal for most times and he has to be speaking at least more than 2 languages are guns before it does. that is what i think. yeah. usually the standard 2 is usually disbanded, but most often it's one say, can you tell me how he became so prevalent in this country? historically?

i think it's due to just the history of the healy, of the cost has been the place to bring people together persians or hands of the european so. so healy was the only literally the language abroad, this people together. so talk to me a little bit about how it is in terms of mia every, let me speak to you because you're a teach at a private school. the language of instruction is ideally supposed to be useful. healy until you gets to secondary school. am i right? i see that 2 options in the private sector. that is where english is mostly spoken as the medium of communication, waiting the government's will. so he's mostly spoken as the medium of communication . so that gives a chance for most of them to keep running the language and gets used to eat some of the groves. but when they reach 70, when they get, they get to secondary. suppose that is when they sense using one language and that's as english as the medium of communication. isn't this difficult to though? i mean to have that super high transition support? tell me about the experience. it's really difficult because know when

a child is speaking, my the mother along with this. so if you me and then that you, you, you being to use another language english. it's really hard for students to build up with 2 languages. yes. so it's really has maria, i work in publishing, so we see a lot of people who are i'm your degree this. so you have someone who's graduated. so college who really reads for a year and, and this is almost always, that should be due to the fact that they only have to learn english in um, in, in seconds. or they only have had to learn. so he's in maybe only primary and then they have to abandon it. okay, so we're talking about a bundling the language and yes, the people who are pink top dollar to learn the language. lillian hayes from zimbabwe and she's doing how much does it so he so what got you thinking? this is a language i want to use even other times, and he has himself say, who perhaps is not the best language of learning at the moment. what i would say

for me, i, i, i so much you for you. he's getting more for me because they know what setting to then it's use this to me especially to being forced to interest what he is one feeling with this is feeling excessive. that's why would they live in chinese chinese, you're teaching the humans yet teaching. what would that go for those languages was who doesn't have anyone who's speaking now would say just of take to go for a few for a hearing, which is also a f as in language. that's an interesting word you've used, forced to learn. so like you do you think that we are forcing other applicants to use the national, the, the native languages so he has always been new will actually go, you know, it's links people together. i think what's happening right now, even with the say being the human language is a you and in the ac is that we understand that it links the voice more than a language is a culture. so being african people relate to. so the healey speakers,

because you relate to the culture itself. well, just the language. so mario, we will be honest with ourselves. yeah. if i'm to speak on this to be as a kind of kind of really want to make fun of tons of me is because of your proficiency of, of what you leave. i mean of english. we internalize the self hate so that so we'd judge people based on the ability to just speak a board language. i would have to say, i instance any a when you speak english, when people look at you like you, i intelligent and only 6. so here when you can speak english, there was look actually doing a housing thing and english a full is like you're for because you don't know english. yeah. uh, but i mean, this must not be good psychologically for anyone who's trying to learn the language . right. let me hear from you please. we used to be forced to speak english. yeah. of why we we come from becky ground on speaking swahili. we have been raised in swahili. so you reach in secondary school and find yourself that you have to speak

. you will really need to speak english as your best language. at the end of the day, you have to speak english for monday to do the evening. then you find yourself, you are hungry, you attack yet, and you are ending up painting these things school english. so i really like what you've said about it even makes you, you know, sort of don't want to learn english in it to a certain degree. yeah. but when we draw, so it can be, as you say, or when we don't see it as valuable, what do we lose as a society? we lose our stories. historically, we being started that being passed down to us by your oral traditions or like we have grandfather's grandmother sending us stories is what he did. but then you have someone who now has to abandon home to go to school where they're no longer being told those stories. are he no longer reading it is a he the no longer right? jesus or he you, you, you lose your identity. let me hear from you mean they love. i think it was

indifferent with bank to a quarter of the lake right now. for example, the bullet the you know, mary doreen. yes. yes. to do that. and the bearing of the dates, those are the 2 quotes or things which i know right now. but, oh, other things which were they were doing. big thing with it is trust. okay, we don't to anything else? do you, do you lose your identity simply by learning another language or is it because because i mean, i speak multiple languages, right? i have not stopped being a clue or kind of, or an african. well, the problem is that when you live along which you know the sites, it's like the people who do i was like when the problem comes. so when i speak english, i tried to just like an english press and you know, 18, they can do this. but it is, i have to leave all my coaches behind, but i think we need some practical steps. yeah, i think, you know, they do well with all the speaking a mazda times, perhaps a lingua franca, which is an african language, and then english. but that's not the reality today. so how do we shift this

thinking? how do we get more people interested in african languages? more people speaking them writing and then seeing them doing debates in them with us. i agree that uh, the good for most of us before he leaves us, let us draw up the ideas that we need to speak english looking like to intelligence and weltman. everything that has done that. i think you've given us a really good answer because preserving language is, is resolving our selves who we are. as african santini suddenly says, i'm the more thing our own language is. make sense? now if you've watched a fantastic english movie, but still where instead of side with the intriguing images and riveting dramatic scenes, what else do you need to be fully engrossed?

could lopez for installation of the movie, the, the key in this next page that we discover how translators are bridging the language gap in the film industry for everyone to enjoy. have you ever wondered how people around the world consume international movies? and uganda translators, like b j phone backed up the glorious with the transition of the movie. you're putting yourself in position that you like giving a story to people in 11 months long because already the movies out in that it's like your language is of was the brothers really months language so that you give them a comprehensive approach which has been doubling movies and television attainment for about 5 years beyond dialogue also helps to relate the scenes and characters to more local examples. the creativity put in and movies and do this for is going to nickels. people either love your movie or not so that i told you to be to your pointing and then moving, for example, um, making people life,

making people in jail for the cause, the judge and the movie. listen to your words of advice and the movie. also, my thoughts tops movies and now growing in popularity, especially among people who don't understand the original foreign language. more people about paying to watch them in local sentiments like this one. some movies that i do think the movies. at the moment you have to be king and you need to have the tries that it gives you the way i do feel it went to a y t. if it's very interesting for me. but while translated movies maybe into mom said not for everyone. some you gannons, especially english speakers, still prefer to watch the original. what's the boy? yeah. let me call them a lights. they were there. this they have said they're going to school. they prefer a non translated things and that's it. and you've been,

depending on how that guy is going, he's going to translate the movie for you and you end up missing out some, some very important information from what doctors are trying to give you who matches livelihood. hands in the balance. authorities want to put a stop to his leg on the ground, so that may violate intellectual property rights for the bush can only hope that his crowd to be recognized for what it is making entertainments more accessible to a wide audience regardless of language or culture. from over just so i say that the power of language cannot be overstated. this fact isn't lost on this young boy. it's in gonna, not key at a 43 champion who was represented half countries globally, is using how way with words to inspire young, environmental, active god. now, by the way, is grappling with sylvia before a station, especially around open areas like a crop, according to the global forest support. gonna last 18000 hector's of primary for his car in 2022 alone. but can knock,

you had helped me to give this devastating impact by using just so what we have to present ations of the equal we saw high. yeah. well, you know, the, i don't what the hello, my name is, i casual mind some. i love to do poetry and that is what i do. the longest pages of i have ever lived is 25 people, which was stuff because i had limited time. not see up to so i'm gonna and she's famous for addressing problems to poetry already at the very young age of possible set to model. remember, i quite remember when she was to yes, 6 months and we've got a call from the school that's the one had to his sites, a brief for him for the anniversary because she was able to memorize everything within that short period of time with 2 kids so for not so to continue help in my

school is a race from place to be. i don't have a few a subject, but i'm trying my possible best to by law school with my curry at info also gone in 16 regions. lucky i initiated a one todd one p project encouraging children to plant a tree alongside harrington white gray from a town in the central region was does amazing green just so nice. but then icons who are correct and i see less cheese, which i'm not so happy about. so i just wrote this book to inculcate, into the minds of the young people to help them know the importance of trees, how good trees are to the environment. i also teach them how to plan some and let them know about the different types of trees we have in the world. based on

a numerous advocacy where she was selected by climate vulnerable for him. as yet the mazda, cute and bus of the, to educate artist when the climate change, which led had to participate in the cafeteria and 7 in egypt in 2022. a team that comes at a time in our life. well we, we realize us something being a tread to our existence. and as you love these, you can sit down and see those. why are we, why the 2 points or 5, just lucky attempts to talk slicer poetry using the one to one talk project us there was supposed to deployments crisis thing, donna, africa, and beyond. why most of us use wars to inspire change and express ourselves. all of us use sign language like rosen, she was born deaf,

but loan to communicate with her husband and children in a unique way. however, being unable to speak comes with a lot of challenges to. this is her story. rosalyn. oh, we know is a proud mother for yet when the yellow shell she never hears them. in fact, rosalind, he was nothing. despite the noise in that ruby, the rosalind grew up in the deaf community in costume, which even has its own sign language dialect. she met her husband julia as a door at the mosquito school for the day. one of the few education centers available to canyon children with hearing difficulties. the couple of married in

2004. roslyn is professional taylor bell. julius is a carpenter for transitioning from the deaf community to ordinary society and i, ruby was rocky. these didn't get easier when rosalind and julia started a family there for children whose ages range from 15 to 3 months can all here despite miss about deafness being hereditary, they give them copious amounts of joy and even help the.

ready the early stages of parenting were tough, not hearing your children cry when hungry, for instance. but the, a couple of managed developing a special communication channel. now the battle is but the kids through school as job opportunities are scarce for deaf people in kenya, despite julia and rosalind qualifications. so they started a small grocery business according

to the 2010. can you disability survey? there were about 800000 desk people in kenya, but the state still has not provided structures or even policies to support people with your and disabilities. meanwhile, rosalyn and julie astride on their own, in their quiet road, able to bring up their children against the on the if anything that is the which it and humanity and we will always survive and 5. so our diversity did our deep dive when language is therapy, something for you. check out also shows to keep the conversation going. how can we preserve our language is i'm eager to hear your thoughts. but i and the show now with a song from sally equals a data on the new ari thank you for watching the traffic gun found gigi and all

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