the, the we used to be forced to speak english. why we, we can from becky ground of speaking. why 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 then all the writing you you, you lose identity. we just allow her languages to die and we own bracing languages that are not ours. you've got the right language. it does not all embrace communication, but also shapes or identities. how is seeing, how we perceive the world it fast 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 illegal mendoza 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 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 will speak more to be extra ordinary poly blots. take, for instance, this missouri and molten and what, who taught himself. 5 new languages in just for. yes. me the amazing, it brought him a giant volume on the boys. that is the way you see those process. abraham learned arabic, french, german, portuguese, and spanish. all in the course of just full year on year in the spring, this long to do these people that 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 the future of opportunities to practice. luckily, the cosmopolitan metropolis of lagos office. plenty of those today, the brit hume is visiting his favorite lunch spot, running to buy french speaking playgrounds, from neighbor infiniti. also i was just, uh, the, the 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 some 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 portuguese, and from german to english also, but really that hard work can build up in advertising. before heading home, abraham stopped off for a swamp at one of lagos as many 11 east beach. it was somebody i like to set up. and the show of them, which means is a come from being able to walk anywhere in the world regardless of way of from that is the opportunities and daddy's depaula 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 as 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 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. and guess where they are in fund, they like to do with this, you know, the advocate department coming together as one big group and during lunch. do you feel any pleasure of speaking more look along, which 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 gone. so every time you go somewhere, we expect you to be able to speak in the language. there's also a lingua franca, which is from a different parts of the country where everyone else is lingua franca, a local language so. so the limbo front gray is the chief, which is the language of the ascent you do you precise speaking? you're looking lingua franca to a foreign one. it's a, it's a tough guy said to welcome 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 those things together, i just feel yes, the pressure could be there, but the 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 of benefits existing, 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 she, which is the one guys from a different ethnic group. everyone knows it's like we want our language to also get that same prominence. but if we all just speak english them, you can avoid that's conflict. but it's nice to speak local languages too because there's a lot of quotes are being lost now between the pressure of learning your local languages alone and foreign languages. where does the tension lie? not as readily available as learning german for instance, where i can just download the 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, then there's a big problem because we are just allowing our languages to die and we are racing

language. is it 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 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 interventions. i think they feel good cuz even though our kids, 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 this 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, 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 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 at least 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 yeah, he's actually from. 5 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 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 or kinds before does that is, but i think yes. usually the standard 2 is usually dissented, 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 so he, 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, 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 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 support. so here is 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 and 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 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 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. so it's really has maria. i work in publishing, so we see a lot of people who are i'm not degree this. 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 a bundling the language and you have to be people who i think top dollar to learn the language. lillian, here is from zimbabwe and she's doing him last as and 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 like now we're setting to then it's uses to me specially to being forced to them to. so he is one feeling with this feeling seems that way. well, they didn't tell you need the chinese, you're teaching the gym as you get to choose. what would that go for those language as well? so you don't have anyone who's speaking now would say just fit to go for a few swahili, 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 are forcing of the africans 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, the, the 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 on this to be as a can kind of really want to make fun of terms 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 judge people based on their ability to speak a blurred 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't speak english, there was look at you like doing a housing thing, an english, a full is like you're for because 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. um, why we, we came from becky ground on speaking swahili. we have been raised in, so i healey. 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'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 7th 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 been passed 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 no longer reading it? and so he's no 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 same lake right now. for example, the bullet, the you know, mary. the 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 a lot of the things that we do in big day it is trust. okay, we don't you 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 to call you or canyon or an african. well, the problem is that when you live along which, you know, sites, it's like the people who the language like with the problem comes. so when i speak english, i try to just like an english person, you know, 18 they can do this. this 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 of them. other 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 languages? more people speaking them writing and then seeing them doing debates in them as i agree that the uh the good for most of the oh, for hailey, let us draw up the ideas that when you speak english you'd be looking like 2 intelligence and 12th and everything let us send that out. so i, i think you've given us a really good answer because preserving language is, is preserving our selves who we are as ask because i sent any son says i'm promoting our own language. this makes 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?

couldn't lopez, for installation of the movie, the key in this next page? so 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, 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 they've created between put in and movies and do this. so he's going to nichols, people either loved me, old movie or not so that i took great tv 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 that via do you feel what to why teen if it's very interesting for me, thought, well translated movies maybe and mom said not for everyone's some you gannons especially english speakers to prefer to watch the originals most of everywhere. yeah. let me call them a lights there where they are. this, they have said that they're going to school. they prefer a non translated things and that's it that you've been 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 the doctors are trying to give you. who matches livelihood hangs 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 hurt the 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 neck. he, at a 43 champion who was represented half country globally, is using how 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 an impact

by using just what we have to present ations of that 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 to which was the because i had limited tests, not see up to so i'm gonna and she's famous for addressing problems to poetry. all right, you have to 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 have sites roof 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 try my possible best to buy school with my car yet in full, also gone to 16 regions. makia initiated a one child one project and cards and children to plant a tree alongside her written work about going from a town in the central region was does amazing green trust 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 change, how good trees add 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 had

numerous advocacy where she was selected by climate vulnerable for them, as just the mazda cute on bus of the to educate others when the climate change, which led had to participate in the call between 7 in egypt. in 2022, a change that comes of time in our life. well we, we realize us something being a trip to our existence. and as human beings, we can sit down and see ourselves. why are we? why the, to the point of why is this thing lucky or takes to talk to elijah to poor treat using the one to one talk project us or response to the claimant's 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 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 how story, roslyn, 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 a death community in which even has its own sign language dialect. she met her husband julia as a door at the mosquitoes 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. while julia is a carpenter transitioning from the deaf community to ordinary society and i, ruby was rocky. the things 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 their children cry when hungry, for instance, with 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 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 they 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 am the show now with a song from sally equals a data on the new ari thank you for watching the traffic on the phone to get to choose

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