so i asked little surprised, i wish up now, and i am ready to dive into the hands of gentlemen to which you have you have a one to talk to me before port on the spot and the i'm expected sides of the nightstand. we used to be forced to speak english. why we we come 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's no longer reading it is what he no longer writing. you, you, you lose identity, we are just allowing her languages to die. and we are bracing language. is that not ours? because that right language, it does not only embrace communication, but also shapes of 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 named by to jama. again, my name is 5 to at least on the know she and welcome to the 77 pass and show a language is did you know that more than 2000 separate and distinct languages spoken in one of africa? the live it's 40 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 nigerian molten and what, who taught himself 5 new languages in just for you as mid. amazing abraham giant volume. the boy that is the way you see 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 right here is visiting his favorite lunch spot, running to buy french speaking playgrounds, 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, ibrahim, 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 commitment,

which doesn't come cheap. i use along with this every other day at also on my job. i'm currently a trust late, so i just leads 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 coming from being able to walk anywhere in the world, regardless of where you're from. that is the opportunities and that is 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 though language gives people

a sense of belonging to. so i asked 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 fund 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 that 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 speak this lingua franca, a local language so, so the linda frank 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 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 language at then if it's exhausting, but i think it's important when you enroll me, do it 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 feel good 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 language is published by 48 percent believe that they should stay of was english is an important language in international commas 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 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 are 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 a, from diana. 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 the analysis, this house that you also see costa for language. and so how many languages do you speak? 2 languages, which ones are in a in english. okay. so is it normal for most times and he has to be speaking at least more than 2 languages are going to be forward as it is, but i think yes, 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 be 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 hard transition, the part tell me about the experience. it's really difficult because know when a child who's speaking month a month along with this, so healing and then that you, you, you being to use another language in english. it's really hard for students to pop 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 per 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 and he's getting more for me because they know what setting to name. it's used to being forced to interest what he is one feeling with this feeling excessive. that's why would they live in chinese chinese, you're teaching the gym as you have teaching. well, they go for those language as well. so you don't have anyone who's speaking, you know, would say just of take to go for few swahili, which is also a f as in language. that's an interesting word. you've used forced to learn swahili, do you think that we're forcing other africans 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 are intelligent and only 6. so here when you can speak english, there was look, actually didn't go even thinking english. a full is like your for cuz you don't know english. yeah. 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 seen 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 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 in a to a certain degree. yeah. but when we draw so healey, 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 been 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 is what he needs and no longer writes easy. so he, you,

you, you lose your identity. let me hear from you mean they love. i think it was in district 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 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 did 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 that would all be speaking a mother tongue, 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 the uh, the good for most of us let us drop the ideas that we need to speak english looking like to intelligence and weltman. everything that has done that our 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 for more thing. oh languages 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 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 seem international? maybe in 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 to brush has been diving movies and television to obtain that for about 5 years beyond dialogue, he also helps to relate the scenes and carriages to more local examples. the creativity put in and movies and do this. so he's going to nicholas, people either love your movie or not so that i told criteria 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 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, 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. but while translated movies maybe and mom said not for everyone. some you gannons, especially english speakers, to 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. or you be depending on how the 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? hands in the balance authorities want to put a stop to his leg on the ground. so that may violate intellectual property rights for now, who bush can only hope that his cross will be recognized for what it is making entertainments more accessible to a wide audience. regardless of the 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 point. it's in gonna, not key at a 0.3 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 severe 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 alone. but kentucky has helped me to give the state and impact by using just so what we have to present age is all that 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 in the longest pages of i have ever lived is $25.00 to which was south 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 favorite 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 and cards and children to plant a tree along side. harrington was going 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 change that comes of time in our life. well we, we realize us something being a tread to our existence. and as human beings, we can sit down and see ourselves. why are we why the 2 thing points of i just did not give you a chance to talk to elijah to portrait using the one to one talk project us or was suppose to the claimant's crisis in gonna africa and beyond. why most of us use wars to inspire change and express ourselves?

all of us use sign language like rosalind, 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 how 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 the ruby, the rosalind grew up in the deaf community in costume, which even has its own sign language dialect. she met her husband julius odour at the mosquito school for the day. one of the few education centers available to can

and children with hearing difficulties. the couple married in 2004. roslyn is professional taylor. well, 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 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 kenya 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 julia stride on their own in their quiet road, able to bring up their children against the on the if anything very is the which it and humanity and we will always survive and 5. so our diversity did our deep dive when language is therapist, 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 am the show now with a song from sally equals a data on the new ari thank you for watching the

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