International Mother Tongue Day

• 21 February

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w_ty3elpno

WHAT IS AMOTHER LANGUAGE?

• A mother language is the first language learned from birth or learned ‘naturally’ during childhood.

• People can have more than one mother language when they grow-up in a bilingual or multilingual environment.

Other words forMOTHER LANGUAGE?

• MOTHER TONGUE

• FIRST LANGUAGE

• NATIVE LANGUAGE

• L1

CLASS SURVEYWhat mother language(s) do you speak?

MOTHER LANGUAGE TALLY SCORESLOVENE

GERMAN

ITALIAN

HUNGARIAN

ROMANI

EX-YUGO

OTHER

CLASS ACTIVITYCONSTRUCT A MIND-MAP

WHAT MOTHER LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN SLOVENIA?

ItalianGerman

HungarianRomani

SerbianCroatianBosnian

MacedonianMontenegrin

Albanian

SLOVENE English

French

Creole

Spanish

& others …

WHAT MOTHER LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN SLOVENIA?

WHAT MOTHER LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN AUSTRALIA?

ENGLISH

Mandarin, Italian, ArabicVietnamese, Cantonese, Greek

240+ languages

Maltese, Farsi, Turkish …↓

CLASS ACTIVITYMATCH EACH MOTHER LANGUAGE WITH ITS RESPECTIVE COUNTRY

GROUP 1HebrewArabicLatin

MandarinMalayHindi

GROUP 2PashtoKurdishDutchSwahiliHausaOjibwe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XozG0RSCo

ARE MOTHER LANGUAGES IMPORTANT?

Key information summary from Languages matter! video

• More than 50 per cent of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken in the world are likely to die out within a few generations, and 96 per cent of these languages are spoken by a mere 4 per cent of the world's population. Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been given pride of place in education systems and the public domain, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world.

http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/background.shtml

CLASS ACTIVITYPAIR & CLASS DISCUSSION

• How are Slovenian mother language(s) treated?

• Is language extinction prevalent in Slovenia?

• As more immigrants move to Slovenia, how should Slovenia deal with the increased number of people with different mother tongues?

http://scienceillustrated.com.au/

MULTILINGUALISM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km9-DiFaxpU

TEEN SPEAKS OVER 20 LANGUAGES

READING COMPREHENSION TEXT

CLASS DISCUSSIONHow difficult is Slovene for an English native speaker?

http://www2.arnes.si/~mkosir2/studywithus/SI/MyCountry/MyCountry_Slovenia08.pdfhttp://dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Hard-Languages-To-Learn.png

CLASS DISCUSSIONHow difficult is English for a Slovene native speaker?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=196114