1. The benefits of learning the Cornish language

2. Bilingualism in general has been shown to have mental benefits such as delaying the onset of dementia. 3. Learning any language is beneficial, but if you learn Cornish in Cornwall you can use it? 4. Language is the primary index, or symbol, or register of identity (Crystal 2000:40) 5. The Cornish language is a part of a Cornish speaker's identity. 6. Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. Rita Mae Brown 7. The Cornish language is a part of a Cornish person's heritage 8. My language is my homeland Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Poet 9. A nation without a language is a nation without a heart 10. "You can't really understand a country without understanding its language". 11. The Cornish language connects people to the places where they live, their history and their culture. 12. As a child I walked in a landscape of strange names. It never occurred to me that these names had meanings. 13. Being able to instantly recognise place makes it a lot more interesting when you're out and about and can actually understand where you're headed! 14. You can understand the words all around you - on the street signs, on the maps, etc. 15. Knowing Cornish makes literature (past and present) in Cornish accessible. 16. Cornish is a pathway language into other, wider spoken languages: Breton and Welsh. 17. Learning Cornish supports and restores long-standing ethno-cultural, social and linguistic connections between Cornwall, Wales and Brittany. 18. It brings the past alive, especially if you have Cornish ancestors. 19. An opportunity to form a direct connection with ones Cornish ancestors and speak as they spoke. 20. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela 21. To have another language is to possess a second soul. Charlemagne 22. Each language you learn is another set of opportunities. -Skylar Harrington 23. Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? . The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornishmen. - Henry Jenner 24. Slideshow by Jon Mills 2014