Wednesday 25 January 2017

Blog Post 14- Podcast on Endangered Languages

This link will take you to our Podcast, where we explain how there are more than 7000 languages in the world. These languages include endangered languages, smaller languages are depleting every two weeks. As a group of three, we had to provide information about an endangered language of our choice. Our group decided to inform the audience about the Hawaiian Language as many people around the worl believe that the language is not dying but in fact its depleting with only 1000 native speaker remaining..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj2GjTUS-qU

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2 comments:

  1. Unknown26 January 2017 at 11:12

    H Jess, Anjana and Reem,

    Your podcast served to be a great medium to enhance my knowledge on the Hawaiian language. Accordingly, It was made all the more enjoyable by the rhythmic background music and the overall light tone employed. Moreover, It was interesting to learn how the language was banned in schools to give way to English, connoting the direct consequences of the English hegemony and how it has propelled people to drop their own language to take up another foreign tongue. Do you personally believe that there are benefits, if any at all, in completely letting go of one's own language to learn English?

    Well done!!

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  2. Unknown28 January 2017 at 10:23

    Hey Jess, I really enjoyed listening to you podcast as you set the environment of the podcast medium and the subject really well with you background music and your professional nature. Your slight use of the language in the beginning of podcast adds a nice touch to it as you educate the audience on the language as well as the history of it. It is interesting to hear about how the Hawaiians have accepted the diminishing of their language so easily as they turn to their traditional dances and customs to express their culture. I'm quite shocked to hear about how their language was actually developed and evolved by outside forces. With this history, do you think that colonization has the possibilities of improving a language? Also, if these languages were developed by these foreigners then what made them give up on it?

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