Comments on: Urbanization threatens mother tongues

By: Joshua Masinde

Joshua Masinde — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:54:44 +0000

When I was in primary school, we used to be punished for speaking mother tongue of swahili. The victim would carry a smelly horn and wait for someone to speak unforbidden languages and hand over the medal to them. Just before we could be dismissed in the evening, we would be paraded before the Headmasters office and spanked for speaking other languages other than English.
It is all in the system. We grow up hating our very languages, and adore foreign languages.

By: mugogo bziegnew

mugogo bziegnew — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:56:08 +0000

good story its hapens in kenya as well, kids maily learn to speak kiswahili and english, interesting, in the americas, spanish and the orients keeps their languages, their kids grows up speaks both english and orients, spanish; its only in africa that this happens thats too far mainly if the child is punished for speaking their language! why ? language is language its like water, it will follow the mainstream you dont need to go as far as giving punishment for that.
mugogo
a parent

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