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November 19, 2010: What news from Sorosoro.org?
Blog
This week you can read a new chapter of our mother tongue-based education series. Founder of association DULALA (D’Une Langue A L’Autre) Anna Stevanato talks about her beautiful initiative to help multilingual families pass on their language and culture to their children.
Video
We continue our trip in Senegal, more precisely in Casamance : after last week’s video on numbers, we now invite you to discover how the days of the week are said in the Baynunk language.
Anglophones can also listen to Kialla’s account of the Mpongwe culture’s evolution in Gabon, now with english subtitles.
News
Publication in Australia of « Re-awakening languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia’s Indigenous languages », under the direction of John Hobson, lecturer and coordinator of student support services at the Koori Centre, University of Syney.
Also in Australia, two position offers : The Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre is looking for two full-time linguists. Application deadline : November 30th.
Press Review : last week several newspapers and magazines have put great emphasis on languages. The Nouvel Observateur, the Guardian and the Assam Tribune take us alternately to Peru, Switzerland and India.
Agenda
On November 29th, « The Paddy Field » by Xiaoling Zhu will be presented at cinema La Pagode in Paris, as part of the Environmental International Film Festival. This fiction feature film has been entirely shot in Dong, a Tibeto-Burmese language spoken in southern China.
And as always…
Do not miss the word of the fortnight, a universal term to be translated in every possible language : « to give ».
https://www.sorosoro.org/en/to-give
You will also find an updated Soroquiz available on our homepage…
A beautiful week to all of you!
The Sorosoro crew