One Kids' Video Can Change the World--and Save a Language
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Try not to love these kids. You'll fail.
You know the bad news: half our 7,000 languages and the precious cultures tied to them may die before the century is out. One way to try saving them is using social media to reach out to youth.
This video does that and more. With 200,000 views on multiple online postings, kids rap about Kukama, their native tongue. The video is amazing, beautiful and fun.
It also helped launch an Indiegogo campaign, for a school to preserve the language and books to teach it. Congrats to the kids: you are astounding.
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Un-Tweet That Translation
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Ah, the perils of Google Translate.
Phil Neville found out the hard way. A well-known English soccer (football) coach in Spain, Neville decided he should be gracious and tweet in Spanish.
Poor idea.
His recent tweet Morning--early run on the beach to start today came out as corrida de la ma�ana en la playa de empezar el d�a. Just one problem. What his Spanish sounded like in Spain was something more like, Ejaculation on the beach to start the morning.
Oops.
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