Your podcast served to be a great medium to enhance my knowledge on the Hawaiian language. Accordingly, It was made all the more enjoyable by the rhythmic background music and the overall light tone employed. Moreover, It was interesting to learn how the language was banned in schools to give way to English, connoting the direct consequences of the English hegemony and how it has propelled people to drop their own language to take up another foreign tongue. Do you personally believe that there are benefits, if any at all, in completely letting go of one's own language to learn English?
Hi Reem, Anjana and Jess,
ReplyDeleteYour podcast served to be a great medium to enhance my knowledge on the Hawaiian language. Accordingly, It was made all the more enjoyable by the rhythmic background music and the overall light tone employed. Moreover, It was interesting to learn how the language was banned in schools to give way to English, connoting the direct consequences of the English hegemony and how it has propelled people to drop their own language to take up another foreign tongue. Do you personally believe that there are benefits, if any at all, in completely letting go of one's own language to learn English?
Well done!!