Lesson B Unit 6

NTERVIEWER With us this week is Professor William Barnett,

who is a specialist in dying languages. Professor Barnett, first
of all, how many languages are there in the world? It must be
more than the number of countries in the world? PROFESSOR Oh yes, much more. There
are about 200
independent countries in the world but we think there are
around 7,000 different languages. I 7,000? P Yes, more or less. We don’t know exactly,
because there may
well be languages in areas like the Amazon that we haven’t
even discovered yet. In fact we only have detailed knowledge
of about 15% of the world’s languages. I And some of these are very widely spoken. P Yes,
that’s right. Spanish, for example, is spoken by over 400
million people as a first language, English has about 500
million native speakers, Arabic has about 300 million. And
the language with the most native speakers is Mandarin
Chinese. It’s spoken by over 900 million people, that’s 14% of
the world’s population. So these languages are very big, and
they’re doing fine. In general, the languages that are widely
spoken are increasing while the languages that are spoken by
smaller groups of people are declining. I And is this something to worry about?
t certainly is, yes. The number of languages in the world
is decreasing very, very quickly, roughly one language
every two weeks – that means that about 30 languages are
lost every year. The situation is deteriorating because of
globalisation – people have more contact with each other,
and they start to speak English or Spanish or Chinese instead
of their own language, and their own language dies out. We
think that over the next 100 years about half of the world’s
spoken languages will die out. That means 3,500 languages
will disappear completely in just a hundred years. I Yes, that’s serious. Is there anything
we can do about it? P Well, one thing we can do is record the languages and find
out more about them. Most ‘small’ languages are spoken
in certain regions of the world – we call these ‘language
hotspots’. These are areas which have a lot of different
languages but each language is spoken by very few people.
In one small part of Northern Australia, for example, there
are around 135 different tribal languages, but they’re all
in danger of disappearing. So we’re focusing on areas like
these, and we’re writing the languages down and recording
the voices of the last remaining speakers. So it may not be
possible to revive the language, but at least we can try and
preserve it for future generations.

Numerb 3 is
Increase

Decreasing last month

I would like to know the increasing the use the native language

We are talking about

In Peru is Increasing Climate change.

In PeruIncreasing sea level cause

Decreasing economically level by Covid 19

The places has decreaseing

The job has decreased because a lot of companies closed.

The joba are descrasing , companies closed

When the quarentime starte, the traffic decreased

The pollution are increasing, because

For a while
Nowadays the people use bycicle instead of cars

Due to social

More use a cycle whatever you want to go

Second contagious ( Contaigius)

Revidal
And argument (30 seconds)
What are arguments

201/5000
Mantener como está
2 deja de existir. perderse, morir, desaparecer
3 hazte más, aumenta
4 volverse menos o bajar bajar bajar
5 5 traer de vuelta a la existencia revivir
6 empeora, se
Save the lenguagae from dying out by recording stories and by giving
language clases for children.

It seems unlikely to survie as a spo

deteriora

We gathered together = Nos reunimos

We all used to get together
Efforts are being made to sabe the languagage from dying out
Many language habe already been lost.
The language was being studied by researchers
Can only be dreamed of
Can’t always be Depended on
In our coutry thre are several language such as Spanish, Quechua, aymara, achaninka
Our language is part of our identity

You will able to find Native language in andean and jungle region.
Unfortunately, some language like achaninka is in serious danger of dying out.
Because people only speak this kind of language in few small villages.

I the past, before have being conquered by the spanish, We talked roughly 300 language.
But now we talked 150 language. Really Many language habe already been lost.

In some parts of Peru, Linguists and researchers are trying to preserve endangered
language in order to Efforts are being made to save the languagage from dying out
Another Strange language was being studied by researcher, specifically in amazon jungle

Im my point of view, is Increasing Quechua, because you can see in some university is
pushing to study Quechua language in order to this language haven’t been lost.
Farmers language.
Declining, is Achaninka and other original language in some parts of amazon jungle, I
Heard that this language was beings studied by researchers to learn a Little more about
these kind of strange language.

As far I’m concerned, I believe that we will need our roots, therefore we need to
undertand one original language or encourage some schol that teaching it to children in
schools.

You can use techonlogy

You can créate apss the practice of language
Some younger people coul be learn
He is small language, no many people Few small villlage it coul de die out language

It’s also important, more people focus on general interestating to preserve

I would like to say, we wern’t know is important that they should have

Is more easily
1 (agree)
Because is part of our, suddenly 20-30 years
Is part of identity or society too
, could’nt communicate with the other people they are speak

There is no diferente language between

It will probably

Every lenguaje has different ways around of the world.

Change attitu in special in the children

Record speaking the language

Some people créate apps that speak the language.

Use these arguments or prepare your own:

• In the modern world, everyone needs to speak a major world language.

• A lot of tribal languages are not adapted to modern life.They belong to a way of life hich
is dying.
• If young people speak a major language, they can travel and get jobs.
• Languages die because young people don’t want to speak them. It’s wrong to try to
force them.

Prepare for a discussion. You believe that it’s important to stop languages dying out. Every
time we lose a language we lose part of our culture.

Use these arguments or prepare your own:

• There’s no reason why people shouldn’t speak several languages: their own language
and one or two ‘bigger’ languages.
• Languages die out because people feel ashamed of them. It’s important to educate
people to respect and value minor languages.
• The world needs variety – the world would be very boring if people all spoke one
language.
• Many tribal languages contain knowledge about plants, medicines and the environment
which could be very useful. We need to preserve this knowledge.

Depends of the state

I was born in cusco my parents I consider to is very important to know to interect with
them to get more opportunities there is not

The are diferent when you ask the favor

You have to as Ramon said for someone is really midet
You can a favor

Little a embarrared
1 When was the last time you had to ask a friend
or a family member for a favour?
2 What kind of favour was it?
3 How do you feel about asking someone a favour?

MMA So, if we leave late afternoon on Friday … SAM I need to check with Becky though. E
Do you think it’ll be a problem? S Well, it’s asking quite a lot. E She knows what to do,
doesn’t she? S Yeah, but it means she’ll have to look after the café for a day
and a half by herself. Open up, set things up, deal with the
cash, clean up – everything. E True. S That doesn’t seem very fair – she has only just
started. Becky?
E Do you mind if we ask you a favour? B Of course not. What is it? S Feel free to say no,
but we – that is, Emma and I – we
were hoping to get away … on Friday afternoon … for
the weekend. B Oh, lovely! Where? S Paris, actually. B Fantastic. S So we were wondering
… B Do you want me to look after the café? E Would you? B Of course. I can close up on
Friday and sort everything
out on Saturday. Just tell me what you need me to do. S Are you sure? B Of course. I’m
happy to help. S Thanks. That’s really nice of you. E Yes, thanks, Becky. It’s just … Sam
hasn’t had a
weekend off for more than nine months. B My pleasure – it’s about time you two had a
break
together. And I know how everything works now – it’s
no trouble at all. E We really appreciate it. B And if I don’t know what to do I can always
ask Phil.
Can’t I, Phil? PHIL What’s that? B You know all about the café. P Do I? S Don’t worry, JK.
Go back to your book. E Yes, make us all famous. S I really am very grateful. B It’s not a
problem