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Starting in Week 3, we have a small but important requirement for blog responses: You must write at least 8 sentences. Of course, you can always write more!
Here is this week's question:
Is it important for society to try to save languages that are in danger of disappearing? Should governments create laws to encourage the protection of endangered languages?
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My opinion is that happend nothing if a language die. In my country some politicians force to the people to speak in others languages instead of Spanish, because the try to look for diferences between regions of Spain and get the independence. What can I think when there are many people in the world that want to learn Spanish and there are Spaniars that don´t want to use it?. In my country there are people obsessed speaking worthless languages;actually, they are intolerants, they have not an open-mind. There should be two general language for everybody, it would be less problems in the world if all together would can understand eachother.
ReplyDeleteThe government should spend the money of the inhabitans in practical and neccesary issues.
Im afraid I disagree with you, but I can understand what you mean. I don't mean that we should speak an endangerd language nationwide, and I just mean that we souldn't let the language dissapeared if we can. We might be able to do something little for them.
DeleteI disgaree with you. Many communities gave up their languages for their social or political circumstances. In my opinion, when a language disappears, the knowledge and thought that has been transfered in the language also disappear. Trying to get to root of their own someday is the attributes of humans.
DeleteI see what you mean but I am afraid that I disagree with you because of two reasons. First, i that those people who speak native languages in spain beside spanish are on the right truck because it is the only way to preserve their culture and identity. Second, I don't think they are not open minded or intolerants because they might have great positions as linguists and archeologists in the future because old cultures have secrets and keys to solve our current issues. To find out that, we need native speakers to help us to discover ancient written pieces on walls and rocks, otherwise, we will not be able to move forward. On the other hand, I agree with you that their must be general language for every body but not in replace of dormant languages.
DeleteHi Salvador,
DeleteYou've got strong but interesting beliefs. I agree that forcing people to learn a language might not be the best way to go. How can you tell someone they have to speak a certain language if they don't want to. My question for you is whether governments should support groups that want to preserve their language.
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My opinion is that happened nothing--> nothing happens ......
It would be less....-> There would be less....
It is important for society to save languages that are becoming extinct because it is part of education and culture. However, only the goverment has the authority to save those languages because they have power and control to their citizen. Moreover, it also needs the participation of the citizens who speak those languages.On the otherhand,goverments are not concerned in this type of problem because they think that it is very small issue to discuss and most people who are affected are below poverty. Other reason is globalization, that the competition in the world are very difficult.People think that most important language to learn is English because it is usuable in any part of the world.Its sad to know that there are people who are suffered in this kind of situation, but we have to accept it because the world is changing.
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree with your opinion. We the govenment can do many things to preserve endangered languages; however, they don't do that. Why? Like you said, they think there are other things we think first, and that is not about endangered languages. Does this mean it is not important to save endangered languages? That is my question.
DeleteI agree with you. In community, language is one of the most important parts to keep and develop their own culture and tradition. Today, world is as one. In my opinion, small communities may give up their language to interact with the wilder world. But, the language should be preserved even though they don't speak no more. The government have power and can control their citizens. The role of the government is more important.
DeleteI think that every body is in charge to save the language not only the government in the current time. Also, I think saving the native language is important as the dominant languages. Golbalization is not a reason to not saving the folk languages. children must learn their native and common languages.
DeleteHi Alejandro,
DeleteI completely agree with you that saving a dying language requires the participation of the people who speak the language. You're also right in pointing out the huge (and negative) influence globalization has had on endangered languages around the world. Are there ways that globalization might help preserve dying languages?
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"It also needs...." --> It also REQUIRES....
"...concerned in..." --> concerned with
It is important to try to save endangered languages because the language relates to the identity of each community, and we can easily understand each community through language. If we want to understand any community or ethnic group, first of all, we usually learn their languages. If their language disappeared, it is difficult to understand them. Today, many languages have been disappearing, and there are many project to revitalize endangered language. On the other hands, I think that the projects should be conducted under the control of the governments. The most effective method for revitalizing is teaching the younger generation through the education system. Governments should create laws as well as policies to support the protection of endangered languages. But, the efforts of communities or ethnical groups are most important factor to succeed in the survival projects.
ReplyDeleteI don´t agree with you because you can undertand Italy culture, I mean the culture of 2000 years ago without necesity to learn latin. I think that teach to children worthless language is lost money and time, what would you choose for your kids learn a language that is not going to be useful or English?.
DeleteI agree that the language is the identity of one community, but I don"t think that we can understand them by their language, unless they can speak English. However, I believe that it is important to save their language just because they are part of the world.
DeleteHi Kyeong A,
DeleteFor me, learning the language is the first thing I try to do when I move to another country. I agree that understanding a culture is best done by learning the language. In fact, there is so much I learned about Korean culture by learning the language. I had friends in Korea who never learned any Korean; it's amazing what they didn't know about the Korean culture! What do you think about Salvador's assertion that you don't need to understand Italian to learn about ancient Italian culture?
On Grammar:
"If their language disappeared, it is difficult..."
--> .....it WOULD BE difficult....
On the other hands--> hand
in my opinion, I think it is so important to save the endangered languages because they are related to the history and culture of that communities. The language is the identity of any community regardless its size. Today, there are many countries lost their native language because of the colonists in past. Therefore, they lost their identity that distinguish them. For example, many countries in latin America has spanish as official language where as they are not from spain. Another example is in south africa where people speak french where as they are ethnically arabs. Thereby, any endangered language should be saved and protected to communicate with people specially elder people who don't know any language other than their own language. Also, it is important to save those people culture and history. I think it is unfair to neglect rare languages because they are so meaningful in their community. Finally, I think there are many things in our lives that are not meaningful unless they being spoken in the original language
ReplyDeleteI do agree with your sentence with "I think it is unfair......" because I think it doesn't matter how big cultures are, every cultures is important and unique even if those cultures are small. We can't compare which languages is the most important and which is the least important.
DeleteI believe you that language are related to their culture and their identity.But how they can save their language if they didn't use their own language,like your example(South Africa speaks French).
DeleteHi Hussah,
Delete"I think it is unfair to neglect rare languages because they are so meaningful in their community."
I like this quote a lot. I think many Native American groups struggle with finding meaning in their community because they have lost the language that formally united them. Languages hold a lot of meaning, and to lose a language can be like losing one's identity.
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**Watch capitalization (Latin America, Spanish, French, etc.).
"unless they being spoken" --> unless they are spoken
In my opinion, It is essential to prevent endangered languages from extinction because people who speak those languages have their own cultures no matter how big they are. losing their original languages means losing their cultures or identities. It is becasue people who accept and speak more common language might forget thier own identity while they speak and live other people together. It is useful for everyone to speak common languages to communicate with and understand people from different countries when they work, or live in other countries. However, that does not mean we can neglect that some culutures and identities are being lost because no one can take the cultures or indentities away from them. Like I said, languages and clutures and identities are related. That is why I should keep protecting endangered languages.
ReplyDeleteTo save endangered languages, I think government should make a law. New generation like children and teenageers will be a clue to protect endangered languages because the people who will be able to speak and teach endangered languages to the following generation will be them. It is the best way to teach endangered languages in school because many children study there. Therefore, the government chould creat the law to include some language's lessons into a curriculum so that every kids who have a endangered language learn thier own languages. I think the government must encourage to protect endangered languages in this way.
It happend nothing if a language die because as civilization we have to be practical and to do and get the most convenience. The culture gets to adapt simply to new situations. For example, are there sammurays nowdays in Japan? I´m sure that there aren´t, it is something very important of Japanese culture, but it doesn´t mean that the culture needs sammurais nowdays and the government has to do a sammurai school.One day in Spain won´t be fightbulls, it´s a part about our culture, but the day that it wasn´t, it won´t happend nothing. The same happend with languages if they are not valuable why to teach in schools there are more important things to study.
DeleteAs mentioned above, today by globalization, some communities will give up their languages to interact withe wilder world. But, they have to keep and develop their own culture and tradition to keep their identities. I think that immersion education is the best method. So, the role of government is more important. The government should establish any law or policy to preserve endagering language.
DeleteI think to save endangered language needs the cooperation of goverment and community, and it is hard to do this because of some changes in our society. Most people travel to other place to find a better life, so this is one reason why their language has become extinct.
DeleteHi Yuka,
DeleteI completely agree that language and culture are intertwined and that the loss of the former (language) results in the loss of identity for a group. It's interesting that you think the responsibility of saving endangered languages should be in the hands of the government. Teaching a language to children in school (early on) is certainly a good way to go. What do you think a group should do if the government refuses to step in and help them protect or revive their language?
On Grammar:
"...when they work, or live in...." --> no comma here: there are only two verb phrases
"....the government must encourage to protect endangered languages...."--> ...must encourage PEOPLE to protect (encourage needs to be followed by a noun phrase)
In fact, I agree with you in making laws so the generations will be able to speak their own language and own culture specially in counties which had been colonized by stronger powers. I do believe that the words of each language are more meaningful than the replaced languages.Each language is unique and each culture is unique. For example, popular jokes are funny only in the native language. Also, native languages can be code in wars such as the Navajo code talkers.
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