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Keep Speaking Our Language with Mary Bateman

Explore Keep Speaking Our Language with Mary Bateman with available transcripts, learning questions and source alignments in the South Dakota and North Dakota Elder archi

Interview · North Dakota · Mary Bateman · NDNAEU 7

Themes: Language & revitalization, Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition

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Learn About questions

Why is it important to continue to speak our non-dominant languages as much as possible? What causes the loss of a language? What is needed to keep a language active and current? Why can certain languages provide more meaning to certain words than other languages can?

Learn From questions

Do I know more than one language? If so, how does another language impact my perspective? Is there a language in my family that has been lost over the years? How does the loss of language impact my family’s stories? Are there certain words used in my family that come from another language that has been passed down?

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NDNAEU 7 Keep Speaking Our Language with Mary Bateman

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I think give a people you know speech all the time I think they eventually you know jerk I could understand but to speak and i’ll try to just speak it you know but you know drew just speak maybe else wolf and sentence or something where but i just think that’s what I used to always that’s all I spoke when I was kid and how you did you lose it you know how you mean Syria and it at senta’s more meaning in how to care what language it would be but they seem to be no meaning in the language that they speak don’t you think so yeah they even they tell you know everything she described the you know just by one word or so many words you know that describe whatever you are talking about you know can you give me an example of a word or a phrase that’s like that wearing like a word in sauna Sh that would be kind of like that where one word that I you know I don’t know how to speak spanish oh sorry Korra yeah I think I Rick Ross memory is there a word in Arikara that means a lot of things with just one word like you were talking about there’s so much meaning oh can you think of one that would be like that they’re just one word it talibah p.m.Oj know I you know what is it are you a jato the same page yeah buddy I’ll be done what is it yeah and now they another one who’s in would be shisha

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