home for detail. going to be funded here repos every weekend on d w. we used to be forced to speak english. why we, we can from becky ground of speaking here we have been raised on imply, healy, yeah, no, i've been told go stories and so he's no longer reading. it is really the no longer writing your you, you lose identity. we are just allowing her languages to die and seems but we are in bracing languages that are not ours is the right language. it does not only embrace communication, but also shapes or identities. how is seeing how we perceive the world at 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 named by the german. again. my name is 5 to illegal mendoza and welcome to the 77 percent. show on language is did you know that more than 2000 and separate and distinct languages spoken in one of africa? the largest 40 i've 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, lots to take for instance, this missouri and molten in one who taught himself 5 new languages in just 4. yes, mid. amazing abraham. a giant volume. the boy. it's been a huge boxes. abraham learned arabic, french, german, portuguese, and spanish, all in the course of just a 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 migrants from neighbor infiniti. also i was just doing 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, a brand name, i 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 nice and commitment,

which doesn't seem i use along with this every other day at also on my job. i'm currently a translator translates english to. a spanish to lots of these on from government to english also, but really that hard work you can build up in advertising before heading home. abraham stops off for a swamp at one of lagos as many 11 easy to read. oh, i like to set up. and the show of these are coming from being able to walk anywhere in the world. and we've got a list of ways from that. a zip. what's easy, isn't that easy 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 is they see, 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 of franco, which is from a different parts of the country where everyone else is lingua franca, a local language so. so the front gray is the chief, which is the language of yes on to do you precise speaking, your local lingua franca to a foreign one? it's a, it's a tough class at the, 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 say 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 local languages 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 solves one problem and creates many other problems because the key, which is the fund, 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 then we 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 potential life they're not as readily available as lending german for instance, where 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 speak english and other young people today feel about the role of english in their country. i think they so quote close 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 goes 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 on rob was 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. there is the lump 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 22 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 with you. the last man who is a student here in terms of the a, he's actually from. 5 from gonna so a club. so what languages do you speak? so i speak english now decide you alex s b. i kind of a cheat analysis. this house 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 or guns before it doesn't is but i think, yeah. usually the standard 2 is usually the standard, but most often it's one say,

can you tell me how it became so prevalent in this country? historically? i think it's due to the just the history of so he, of the course has been the place to bring people together persians or hands of the european so. so healy was the only, literally the language abroad, these people together. so talk to me a little bit about how he does 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 a 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 to come and support. 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 the time they grow with each. but when they reach 70, when they get they get to secondary. suppose that is when they start using one language and that's as english as the meat of communication. isn't this difficult

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 language is so human and then that you, you, you being to use another language english. it's really hard for students to pop up with 2 languages. yes. which really has maria. i work in publishing, so we see a lot of people who are i know degree days. so you have someone who's graduated. so college who really reads per year and, and this is almost always attribute to the fact that they only have to learn english in the, in, in seconds. or they only have had to learn. so he in make only primary and then they have to abandon it. okay, so we're talking about abandoning the language and yes, the people who i think top dollar to learn the language. lillian, here is from zimbabwe and she's doing how must of and so he, so what got you thinking? this is the language i want to use, even as the terms of me as themselves, say,

who perhaps is not the best language, should be learning at the moment. what i would say for me, i, i, i so much you for you getting more for me because they know what setting to name. it's the use to live, especially to being forced to them to. so he is one feeling with this feeling, assessing that well, they didn't tell you need the chinese, you're teaching the gym as yet teaching. what would that go for those language as well? so you don't have anyone who's speaking now would say just to go for a few for heating, which is also a f as in language. that's an interesting what you've used, forced to learn. so he did you think that we're forcing of the applicants to use the national, the native languages, so healy 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 people has more than

a language as 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 you be honest with ourselves. yeah. if i'm to speak, want us 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 he, i mean of english, we internalize the self hate so that so we judge people based on their ability to speak a blurred language. i would have to say i instance danielle, when you speak english. when people look at you like you are intelligent and only 6 or he or when you can speak english. there was look at you like being a how is in doing an english a full is like your 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 a language. right. let me hear from you please. we used to be forced to speak english. yeah. of why we we came 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'll 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're hungry. you attack yet, and you're ending up hating this thing 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 into 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 have impact down to us by your oral traditions or like we have grandfathers grandmother sending us stories. and so he 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 then no longer reading is what he needs and on longer, right? jesus or he, you, you, you lose your identity. let me hear from you mean they love,

i think with 2 quarter of the lake right now. for example, the bullet, the, you know, mary diary. yes. yes. to do that. and the bearing of the dates, those are the 2 courts or things which i know right now. but, oh, other things which were they were doing big things like it is trust. okay, we don't do 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 i q, q u or 10, or an african. well, the problem is that when you live along which, you know, sites, it's like the people who talk that language like when the problem comes. so when i speak english, i try to just like an english person, you know, 18, they can do this, but it is, i have to leave all my cultures 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 applicant language? is what people speaking them writing and then seeing them doing debates in them mid as i agree that uh the good for most of us, let us draw up the ideas that we need to speak english. you'd be looking like to intelligence and wells and everything that has done that. i think you've given us a really good answer because preserving language is, is preserving our selves who we are as ask because essentially suddenly says, i'm promoting our language. just 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 key. in this next phase, 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 can see 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 movie is out in that it's like your language is of was the brothers really minds language so that you give them a comprehensive approach to embellish, has been doubling movies and television attainment for about 5 years beyond dialogue. he also helps to relate the scenes and characters to more local examples the peer to be put in the movies and do this. so he's going to nichols. people either love your movie or not. so the act of great tv you're putting in the movie,

for example, um, making people life making people enjoy for the cause, the judge and the movie. listen to your 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 and like we sent them is like this one. some movies, are they detective movies? at the moment? you have to be king and you need to have the tries that it gives you the vibe. you feel what to a why teen if it's very interesting for me, thought, well translated movies maybe into mom said not for everyone. some you can and especially english speakers to prefer to watch the originals most of everywhere. yeah. let me call them, i like that where they are this,

they have said that 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. what about who matches livelihood hangs in the balance? authorities want to put a stop to his legs 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. a comes from over, just saw, 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 country globally, is using ho 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 call back in 2022. knowing what 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 catch up on some. i love to do poetry and that is what i do in the longest pages of i have ever lived is 25 people which was stuff. or 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 subjects, but i'm trying my possible best to by law school with my curry at info also gone to 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 months acute and best 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 trip to our assistance. and as you love these, you can sit down and see those. why are we why the 2 points or 5? just lucky, a chance to talk slice with a full what street using the one to one talk project us there was supposed to the claimant's crisis in gonna africa and beyond what most of us use wars

to inspire change and express ourselves. all of those use sign language like rosalind, she was born deaf but known 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 and narrow b, the rosalind grew up in a death 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 roslyn 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 0 the early stages of parenting were tough, not hearing their children cry when hungry, for instance, with a couple of managed, developing a special communication channel. now the battle to put their kids through school as job opportunities are scarce for deaf people in kenya, despite julius 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, roslyn and julie astride on their own, in their quiet road, able to bring up their children against the odds. if anything that is beauty 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 languages? i'm eager to hear your thoughts, but i and the show now with a song from sally equals a data. i'm a new ari. thank you for watching the traffic

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