In the midst of multiple international conflicts, an interwoven global economy and the shrinking nature of our techno-driven world, language learning can no longer be considered an elective subject, but should rather be a necessary core to modern education.
Typically, we put language learning on hold through much of elementary school, but this is the time when children’s minds are most adept for absorbing words and languages.
As I am tugged comfortably in my bed in a B & B in Stellenbosch and looking back retrospectively at the movie I watched two evenings ago I can’t stop marveling at William Wilberforce and his brilliance in ending one of the worst forms of injustices in this world- the slave trade. As a result I think of all the injustices, we, today’s generation still have to end. As a linguist my thoughts are immediately geared the linguistic situation » Read more: Linguistic democracy in Lesotho –What about those poor children who do not speak Sesotho as their first language?
