Thursday, February 6, 2014

SPEAK AMERICAN

You have to watch it all the way through to see why I'm sharing it.

4 comments:

AlamedaTom said...

Thanks for that. There is a touch of sadness when I realize that there are fewer and fewer native speakers left. That's why I love seeing a young guy like this keeping his language alive.

~ Willy

Lally said...

totally...and it is happening around the world right now with many languages...as it almost did with Irish...which at least they teach in the free counties there though there are fewer and fewer born
native speakers...

tpw said...

Far be it from me to put a positive, optimistic spin on this, but Irish is gaining in popularity with young people over there these days & seems to be quite secure for now. Meanwhile, there have been a number of successful efforts by many U.S. tribes to preserve their languages, none of which is to suggest that there aren't serious challenges to indigenous languages or that there haven't been significant losses.

Lally said...

we'll take all the optimistic spin we can't get, so thank you tpw