International Mother Tongue Day

Explore the significance of mother languages, the impact of multilingual environments, and the importance of preserving diverse linguistic heritage. Discover the rich tapestry of languages spoken worldwide.

• Mother Tongue
• Language Diversity
• Multilingualism
• Linguistic Heritage
• Cultural Identity

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1. International Mother Tongue Day 21 February http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w_ty3elpno

2. WHAT IS A MOTHER 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.

3. Other words for MOTHER LANGUAGE? MOTHER TONGUE FIRST LANGUAGE NATIVE LANGUAGE L1

6. CLASS SURVEY What mother language(s) do you speak? MOTHER LANGUAGE TALLY SCORE SLOVENE GERMAN ITALIAN HUNGARIAN ROMANI EX-YUGO OTHER

7. CLASS ACTIVITY CONSTRUCT A MIND-MAP WHAT MOTHER LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN SLOVENIA?

8. Italian German Hungarian Romani SLOVENE WHAT MOTHER LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN SLOVENIA? Serbian Croatian Bosnian Montenegrin Macedonian Albanian

9. WHAT MOTHER LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN AUSTRALIA? ENGLISH Mandarin, Italian, Arabic Vietnamese, Cantonese, Greek Maltese, Farsi, Turkish 240+ languages

10. CLASS ACTIVITY MATCH EACH MOTHER LANGUAGE WITH ITS RESPECTIVE COUNTRY GROUP 1 Hebrew Arabic Latin Mandarin Malay Hindi GROUP 2 Pashto Kurdish Dutch Swahili Hausa Ojibwe

12. ARE MOTHER LANGUAGES IMPORTANT? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XozG0RSCo

13. 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

14. CLASS ACTIVITY PAIR & 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?

16. MULTILINGUALISM http://scienceillustrated.com.au/

17. TEEN SPEAKS OVER 20 LANGUAGES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km9-DiFaxpU

18. READING COMPREHENSION TEXT

19. CLASS DISCUSSION How difficult is Slovene for an English native speaker? http://www2.arnes.si/~mkosir2/studywithus/SI/MyCountry/MyCountry_Slovenia08.pdf http://dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Hard-Languages-To-Learn.png

20. CLASS DISCUSSION How difficult is English for a Slovene native speaker? http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=196114