Welcome to Language Latte: a dialog about educating world languages. That is Becky Morales from Child World Citizen, and I'm your host. At the moment we're focusing as we speak on educating indigenous languages. Deal with your self to a latte, and settle in, so we will begin our chat!
In each episode of the Language Latte podcast, I look at points that world language academics face when making an attempt to assist our college students obtain proficiency. The United Nations has declared 2019 the Worldwide Yr of Indigenous Languages. It's the right alternative to take a look at educating indigenous languages around the globe, plus greatest practices to beat widespread hurdles. Then we converse with Quechua teacher Américo Mendoza-Mori, who describes the historical past of Quechua schooling, and the way it's being taught in the present day.
Languages sustains generations of cultural heritage. Language carries worthwhile scientific, medical, and botanical information. And but, specialists consider solely half of the 7,000 languages spoken immediately will survive to the top of the 21st century. Whereas it's true that languages have been disappearing for hundreds of years, many indigenous peoples have misplaced their languages due to cultural and political oppression.
What qualifies as an indigenous language? Indigenous languages are spoken by ethnic teams and communities of first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples. Let's briefly take a look at the place indigenous languages are spoken, after which look at how they're being taught within the classroom.
Languages are usually not distributed uniformly all over the world. For instance, solely 230 languages are spoken in Europe, whereas 2197 are spoken in Asia.
Africa is a linguistically numerous continent. Individuals converse near 2,000 totally different languages. So far as naming them indigenous languages: as a result of the daybreak of human migration started in Africa, indigenous id right here relates extra to a set of traits, and never with sure individuals being the "first peoples within the land." For instance, there are a number of populations of nomadic peoples that declare indigenous standing based mostly on their marginalization, such because the Tuareg of the Sahara area. As much as 300 languages in Africa have lower than 10,000 audio system, which places them on the UN's endangered listing.
I've a very fascinating article on all the languages in Africa and the place they're spoken with charts and maps, that I'll put within the present notes.
Regardless of the wealthy variety of languages, in African instructional settings, English, French, German and Portuguese are the key languages used.
Indigenous peoples of the Americas are broadly acknowledged as being these whose ancestors inhabited the area earlier than the arrival of European colonizers and settlers.
Hundreds of languages have been spoken within the Americas in Pre-Columbian time. Nevertheless, Native People and First Nations peoples have been pressured to desert their languages and assimilate throughout a whole lot of years of oppression- and now a lot of the surviving indigenous languages of the Americas are critically endangered.
Mexico has 68 indigenous languages, Guatemala has 24, and Canada has greater than 70.
The 4 most generally spoken indigenous languages within the Americas are: Quechua (9 million audio system) and Aymara (2.2 million audio system), Guarani (5 million audio system) and Nahuatl (Aztec; 1.5 million). I've a very cool show of Spanish phrases which have origins in Quechua, Nahuatl, and Taíno in my Academics Pay Academics store- simply lookup Child World Citizen.
120 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages are nonetheless spoken, and 90 per cent are endangered. Within the tiny islands of Papua New Guinea, there are round 832 languages!
In current many years, the revitalization of indigenous languages has been recognized as a human proper. Actually, like I discussed within the introduction, the United Nations Basic Meeting has declared 2019 the Worldwide Yr of Indigenous Languages (IY2019) to boost consciousness of the essential position languages play in individuals's day by day lives.
The purpose is to determine a hyperlink between language, improvement, peace, and reconciliation. There are Three fundamental objectives: help, entry, and promotion.
And eventually, the final objective is to advertise the information areas and values of indigenous peoples and cultures (Promotion).
Language revitalization packages are a strong technique in tradition schooling, and in educating indigenous languages.
Mary Hermes writes about her experiences in beginning a Okay-12 Ojibwe immersion faculty in Wisconsin- I'll hyperlink her paper within the present notes. They decided the mission of the varsity: to create fluent audio system, intergenerational relationships, and environmental consciousness. They hoped to floor their youngsters of their id as Ojibwe, encourage them to like studying, and be able to find options for our quickly altering planet.
Beginning the varsity meant making a curriculum with nothing however a dictionary, a number of grammar books, and some elders. This lack of revealed assets and supplies is quite common in educating indigenous languages.
One other problem could be the space between communities that talk the language. For instance, the Ojibwe individuals are divided into 18 sovereign nations in each the US and Canada, every with their very own authorities and id. Discovering academics is usually a problem as a result of they must be expert in each the language (ideally with a excessive degree of proficiency) and the pedagogy. In some instances, there are very low numbers of elders who're fluent within the language, and the reservations is perhaps 1000 miles aside.
First, there's a important mass of academics wanted to show, create curriculum, and help mum or dad studying. A instructor schooling program is required to create proficient audio system and practice academics.
Ojibwe and lots of indigenous languages are historically oral languages. Hermes writes that literacy educating supplies are nonexistent, and it was troublesome to seek out youngsters's literature in Ojibwe. The youngsters discovered Ojibwe by means of oral traditions and storytelling.
On this faculty, TPR- Complete Bodily Response- labored nicely. The courses have been taught at round 90% within the goal language. Error correction is low, and college students are made to really feel snug to talk with out worrying about grammar. Academics launched vocabulary by means of understandable enter, beginning with a standard oral educating by a classroom elder. They used many hands-on actions, with the elder giving scaffolding for which means. College students then have been guided to apply the goal language.
Though there's a lack of written assets for educating indigenous languages, there are numerous actions that may be carried out in school and not using a textbook. Listed here are 15 actions language academics can do with their courses once they haven't any supplies to depend on. I'm together with a lot of hyperlinks to additional clarify these, within the present notes.
In case you are considering studying extra, I've additionally linked to an unimaginable book- that's truly a downloadable pdf- referred to as Educating Indigenous Languages. The 25 papers collected on this guide symbolize the ideas and experiences of indigenous language activists from the USA, Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand, and are grouped in six classes: tribal and faculty roles, educating college students, instructor schooling, curriculum and supplies improvement, language attitudes and promotion, and sustaining and renewing indigenous languages. It's a wealth of data, and I'm so completely satisfied that it's obtainable on-line.
And now, we get to talk with our fabulous visitor.
Américo Mendoza–Mori teaches Quechua and Spanish on the College of Pennsylvania the place he designed the Quechua Language Program. His analysis on Andean Tradition Quechua language and cultural insurance policies has been featured at main establishments such because the United Nations and the nationwide media. Prof. Mendoza-Mori has collaborated actively with educational and community-based organizations in Peru Bolivia and the USA.
1) Americo, I really like studying about my visitors' language journeys. What languages do you converse, and the way did you study them?
2) And now, you're educating Quechua. What's the profile of your college students? Who're in your courses?
four) Historically, how has Quechua been taught, and with what supplies?
5) I perceive that you're incorporating communicative competence. Are you creating your classes or utilizing a printed curriculum?
6) What are your favourite actions to make use of to show your college students Quechua?
7) The place can listeners discover you in the event that they'd wish to ask some comply with up questions?
Hermes, M. (2007). Shifting Towards the Language: Reflections on Educating in an Indigenous-Immersion Faculty. Journal of American Indian Schooling, 46(Three), 54-71.
Reyhner, Jon, Ed. (1997). "Educating Indigenous Languages. Chosen Papers from the Annual Symposium on Stabilizing Indigenous Languages." (4th, Flagstaff, Arizona, Might 1-Three, 1997).
Endangered Languages Venture: Google's interactive website, to catalog and lift consciousness concerning the world's endangered languages.
I hope that you've a greater understanding of the trials and efficient practices utilized in educating indigenous languages.
When you loved this episode, please share it with your folks and colleagues. Additionally, I really like studying the evaluations on the itunes retailer. Each time we get a assessment, Language Latte will come up greater within the seek for extra academics. Lastly, in case you have extra questions, or when you have nice concepts that work within the classroom, we speak about language educating 24/7, in our Language Latte fb group.
I really like to talk about questions or hear suggestions you've about this episode, and to collect your concepts for future exhibits. Inform us what you're doing in your language classroom!
To by no means miss an episode, subscribe on itunes, or wherever you take heed to your favourite podcasts. Language Latte is made attainable by OneWorldTrek.com: language and cultural immersion journey for academics in Mexico. It was so good to satisfy you all. I sit up for chatting subsequent time, and hopefully collaborating sooner or later! Till then, ciao!
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What I learned about entrepreneurship through my journey as Coinhako co-founder
The truth is I never planned on starting a crypto trading platform. I became inspired to do so about seven years ago after recognising that there was a gap –and significant opportunity– in Singapore's financial services space.
At that time Gerry Eng, Coinhako's co-founder and current CTO, and I wanted to buy and trade bitcoin but found no platforms in Singapore that were simple enough for non-technical users. And so we launched our brainchild, Coinhako, in 2014, with the aim of being the simplest way to purchase bitcoin in Asia.
Our early years and big break
When Coinhako was launched, cryptocurrencies were still largely an unfamiliar piece of technology in Asia. Surrounded by novelty and unfamiliarity, securing interest from investors in Singapore and Asia proved to be a really tough challenge. Eng and I realised that we had to look outside of Asia to build the momentum we needed to catapult our startup.
We made a bold move and headed to the Silicon Valley and became the first Asian Bitcoin startup to get accepted into Boost VC's accelerator programme – a three-month programme helping early-stage startups with networking, mentorship and growth opportunities.
This was a massive opportunity for Coinhako as Boost VC's programme was the only Bitcoin-focused accelerator back in the day, and indeed, it really paid off as we earned personal investments from venture capitalists Tim Draper and Josh Jones.
With that experience and financing, we returned to Singapore full of confidence and ready to work on our long-term vision of building Coinhako into the go-to platform for the masses in Asia to access cryptocurrencies.
Myself, Tim Draper and Gerry Eng (Cofounder & CTO)
The first few years were challenging as the crypto market faced very low interest from the general public. We had to rely on tight financing and management of resources to tide us through. The 2017 bull run, on the other hand, ushered in huge changes in crypto trading and proved to be a big break for us.
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As Bitcoin touched US$20,000 in 2017, Coinhako's trading volume increased year-over-year (YOY) by 1,000 per cent. The boom was on!
Growing from strength to strength
We have come a long way from a team of just two in 2014.
Today, Coinhako employs over 70 people across the region, with plans to double our headcount in 2021. In addition to our headquarters in Singapore, we are also present in Vietnam which acts as our technological hub and employs some 40 members of our team.
Today, we have over 200,000 users trading crypto with us, just in Singapore, and thousands more in Vietnam, a strong affirmation that our infrastructure and technology enable them to access crypto easily.
We firmly believe that we can make greater leaps in 2021 as it is shaping up to be an exciting year for us. With the boom in the crypto market, we are seeing record high monthly account opening numbers and trading volumes on our platform.
Most notable about 2021's bull run is the increased interest from institutional investors and also the presence of a live licensing framework for crypto businesses in Singapore.
I believe that these factors will continue to grow public confidence in blockchain technologies and this will help to further increase interest and demand for cryptocurrencies throughout the year.
What I've learned as a CEO of a crypto startup
I have closely observed the crypto space over the years, experiencing its ups and downs, particularly in Asia. I have seen crypto trading evolve from an unfamiliar and niche financial service to a legitimate disruptor in the financial industry disruptor. Today cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, are as solid as any other mainstream high-risk, high-value asset.
Also read: Ethereum Co-founder Joseph Lubin on why the crypto platform is headed for a grand future
While I have watched companies come out stronger from 2017's crypto bull run, I have also witnessed businesses fold during the 2018 crypto winter. This taught me that any business in this space needs to achieve a good balance of conviction, perseverance, and agility to survive and thrive.
There are a few things I have also learnt from my entrepreneurial journey over the past seven years that budding entrepreneurs should keep in mind. I have condensed them into three main takeaways:
First, don't be distracted by shiny objects –new, trendy ideas are easy distractions; remember to stay focused on your goals. Second, take risks and don't be afraid of failure; but avoid making the same mistake twice. And third, hire people who are smarter than you. Let them handle tasks you aren't an expert at, then focus on your strengths.
We prepare for and face adversity every day at startups. It is commonplace for any business to face disruptions and situations that do not go according to plan.
At Coinhako, we push hard as a team to overcome the challenges that come our way, and we also grow as a team. This is the fundamental formula for the success of Coinhako today.
With a strong team behind Eng and me, we are excited to scale the next new heights and spearhead growth in the regional crypto scene.
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"They eat grasshoppers there." This came from Kyle, one of "the puppies," as the rest of us called them behind their backs. "You moron! It's cicadas!" – the inevitable put-down by Robbie, the other puppy. Generically shirtless but periodically pantsless, too, the puppies moved and spoke in tandem. They played with each other like restless young Weimeraners.
"Kyle is right," I shouted from the kitchen just before pushing the blender button marked "pulverize," mainly to mix up the brunch cocktail "du jour," but also to drown out the conversation. The puppies were more than hot; they were scorching. But they could also be tedious, especially when clothed.
I was making "Sangres de Marias" – which my partner Dan and I thought up during a trip to Oaxaca, where they serve "mezcal" – a fierce, smoky drink made from the maguey agave plant.
Mezcal is tequila-ish, only better – more like a barbecued brandy than the druggy but mixable star of the 7-Eleven-Slushee-like frozen Margarita. Mezcal is smokier and more refined.
Dan and I have a house in Fire Island Pines, which we can only afford by having housemates, so we were launching the upcoming 2010 season with the annual housemates brunch – a slightly sodden prelude to another summer in Alice's Gay Wonderland – the gorgeous beach full of gorgeous men, the joking and the bitching, the flashes of skin in our outdoor shower (conveniently located outside the kitchen window – the puppies were superstars in this arena), and of course the cocktails.
We served the Sangres de Marias in tall, thin flea market glasses, but you can use any glassware you like. Just show some class – no plastic cups. And add enough vodka so you can taste it. I'm sorry, but vodka is not tasteless – it adds flavor as well as punch. If all you want is watered down tomato juice, then add more ice and let it melt.


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Ohio-based Kutol Products keeps hand soap manufacturing jobs in U.S. with new LEED Silver Certified manufacturing plant
Nov 11, 2011 – PRWeb By Michelle Rivera
Headlines are rewritten for editorial clarity. The original story and headline begin below.
Original Headline: KUTOL Products Company Creates American Manufacturing Jobs in New LEED Silver Certified Manufacturing Plant
SHARONVILLE, Ohio , November 11, 2011 (press release) – Searching for a real example of American job creation and environmental stewardship? Look no further than KUTOL Products Company headquartered in Sharonville, Ohio as an example of a family-owned company that not only keeps manufacturing in the USA, but builds a new manufacturing plant that is responsive to environmental concerns and earns LEED Silver Certification.
KUTOL Products Company was founded in 1912 as a manufacturer of wallpaper cleaner. When vinyl wallpaper rendered the product obsolete, the company was faced with plummeting sales.
"The wife of our co-founder discovered our wallpaper cleaner was great material for children to use in making Christmas ornaments," states Joe Rhodenbaugh, president of KUTOL Products Company. "Thus, America's favorite modeling clay, Play-Doh™, was born."
Eventually, the company split into two entities which enabled KUTOL to continue concentrating on its core competency — hand soap manufacturing. "Americans have become more educated about the health benefits of hand cleansing, which has led to a greater demand for our line of hand hygiene products," explains Rhodenbaugh.
As the consumption of hand soap products increased, it became clear that the company would need to expand its manufacturing capabilities. "We have always manufactured our products in the USA, as we believe in the integrity and quality of the American worker," Rhodenbaugh says. "There was never a doubt our new manufacturing plant would be built in America."
LEED Silver Certification
As the blueprint was drawn for the new building, KUTOL placed importance on building it with the highest degree of sensitivity to the environment and an emphasis on sustainability. It also considered the future of its manufacturing in the United States and provided for additional expansion on the adjoining land next to the facility.
For its efforts, the new KUTOL manufacturing facility has earned Silver Certification … a designation that only 100 or so manufacturing plants in the country can claim. KUTOL is also one of the first manufacturing facilities in the janitorial and maintenance supply industry to be LEED Silver Certified.
The new facility has more than doubled the company's manufacturing capabilities by adding square footage, along with equipment upgrades, additional storage tanks, and state-of-the-art mixing tanks. The manufacturing floor was designed after analyzing time-motion studies in order to deliver flawless material flow.
Use of Geothermal Energy
The large pond adjacent to the headquarters is more than just a "water-front view" for employees and visitors. Beneath the pond lies a network of pipes that comprise the geothermal system, which uses the Earth's consistent temperatures to create heating and cooling energy. During the winter, the system pulls heat out of the water and transfers it into the facility to reduce the heating load on the grid. In the summer, the system pulls cold air out of the water and transfers it into the facility to help reduce cooling costs.
For greater energy savings, KUTOL installed high efficiency lighting with motion-sensor controls. Special CO2 monitors control the mix of fresh air to inside air to assure consistent indoor air quality. The company chose low-to-zero VOC carpet and paint, and used opportunities for natural light.
Water is conserved throughout the facility with low-flow faucets, electronic dual-flush fixtures, and a mechanism to capture rainwater for re-use in irrigation.
Recycling Beyond Paper
The first step in preparing the new building site was tearing down the previous government storage site. Huge dumpsters divided out wood, plastic and metal for recycling.
"As construction workers cleared the site, approximately 8,000,000 pounds of old concrete was pulverized and used creating new concrete, states Rhodenbaugh. "Overall, we were able to recycle over 95% of construction waste. "
Recycling did not end with the building's construction, as there are recycling containers throughout the facility in both the office area and on the manufacturing floor.
Sustainability in Hand Hygiene
Today, KUTOL manufactures hundreds of different hand hygiene products from moisturizing liquid soap to hard-working pumice-based options. There is a full range of antibacterial soaps and sanitizing foams and gels, as well as environmentally certified, Green Seal, USDA BioPreferred and EcoLogo approved products.
About KUTOL Products Company
Since 1912, KUTOL Products Company has enjoyed an excellent reputation for providing quality hand soap, HAND HYGIENE products, and soap dispensing systems for commercial use. From manufacturing facilities and industrial plants, to healthcare and food service facilities, to office and school restrooms, KUTOL offers hand cleaning products for every need, and systems that stand up under the heaviest usage. The company manufactures 100% of its products in its LEED Silver Certified, FDA-registered facility in Sharonville, Ohio, following the most stringent government guidelines.
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NEW YORK, 15 October 2008 – Today marks the first ever Global Handwashing Day, celebrated in over 70 countries across five continents in an effort to mobilize and motivate millions around the world to wash their hands with soap.
Handwashing with soap is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diarrheal disease and pneumonia, which together are responsible for approximately 3.5 million child deaths every year.
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation (IYS). Global Handwashing Day reinforces the IYS's call for improved sanitation and hygiene practices.
Children are highly susceptible to the diseases caused by a lack of effective sanitation and poor hygiene. More than 5,000 children under the age of five die every day as a result of diarrheal diseases, caused in part by unsafe water, lack of access to basic sanitation facilities and poor hygiene.
By washing hands with soap, families and communities can help reduce child morbidity rates from diarrheal diseases by almost 50 per cent.
To achieve this reduction, and for large scale, community-sensitive, and sustainable change to occur, partnerships with national and local governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), religious and community leaders, schools and the private sector are essential.
The inaugural Global Handwashing Day focuses on children and schools. After learning about improved hygiene behaviour in schools, children can act as agents of change by taking these messages home to their families and communities. From Afghanistan to Peru, children, school teachers, and parents will join celebrities, government officials, members of civil society and the private sector to raise awareness about handwashing with soap.
Handwashing with soap, particularly after using the toilet and before eating, could significantly impact health, survival, child mortality, and help reduce poverty. Stepping up investment for water, sanitation and hygiene will speed the achievement of all eight Millennium Development Goals.
Other Global Handwashing Day activities around the world include the release of a handwashing song performed by The Wiggles that targets children, celebrity Public Service Announcements, and simultaneous handwashing events involving children around the world.
Global Handwashing Day is an initiative of the Public Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW), which is spearheaded by UNICEF; USAID; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; World Bank; Water and Sanitation Program; Unilever; and Procter and Gamble.
UNICEF correspondent Roshni Karwal reports on the first-ever Global Handwashing Day, 15 October, and how washing hands with soap can save children's lives.
Popular Australian children's musical entertainers The Wiggles give a press conference to announce their support for Global Handwashing Day and sing the tune they created for the occasion.
View the PSA featuring one of cricket's all-time great batsmen, Sachin Tendulkar, encouraging Indian children to wash their hands.


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A look back at the David Lynch 1986 masterpiece
"Blue Velvet" is David Lynch in peak form, the cult movie released on September 12th, 1986, represents (to date) his most accomplished motion picture. The film maker probably never intended it, but critics in 1986 saw in "Blue Velvet" a reference to Reagan-era politics: treacherous and deceitful behavior covered up by a colorful and squeaky clean surface. In a tour de force opening sequence, which has been widely praised, brightly-lit, Technicolor picture postcard images of middle-class homes and tree lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. College boy hero Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) and Nancy Drew high school innocent Sandy Williams ( Laura Dern) delve into a mysterious case revolving around a severed human ear, and Jeffrey moves from boy scout to voyeur to participant, plunging into a nightmare of sex and sadism he's alternately repulsed and obsessed by. One of the many pleasures of "Blue Velvet" is watching this multi-layered, intricate mystery unravel and develop, and it would be criminal to give anything else away. It is completely unpredictable, and the characters, just like the plot, are true originals. MacLachlan is a perfect center for the movie, Rossellini is superb as the tortured singer, Hopper is very, very creepy as the kidnapper, and Dern is outstanding, giving one of her best performances to date, and bringing much depth to her role, as well as her sweet, tender relationship with MacLachlan."Blue Velvet" also involves a masterstroke of style and atmosphere. Lynch wonderfully gives the movie a film noir feel, but it also has a small-town, postcard essence, which mixes together brilliantly to create a look and feels never before seen on film. The American Dream is alive and well, but the rot and corruption are still there, concealed beneath the blades of grass, ready to emerge.
Directed by: David Lynch
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper
Watch the original 1986 "Blue Velvet" trailer
Article originally published by Ken Warren, 2017
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