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How many of you know your language?
At my school the other day in one of my classes we were talkin about the difference between cultures with the exchange students. This one Asian kid(I am not even gonna try to spell his name) had come to watch our native clubs pow wow and asked why the kids and adults there were all speaking english. I didnt know quite how to respond but he said he was really dissapointed because he wanted to "hear another language other than ugly english", but i told him its because not all the tribes have the same language and that if it was spoken in a native language the caucasian people that were there would not understand what was going on.
ANYWAYZ to the point it got me wondering how many of the natives there actually were fluent or knew any of their language. I know a lot of the western Cherokee dialect, enough where i can have a conversation and my boyfriend is teaching me Hualipai(sp?) So how many of you can carry on a conversation in your native language?
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