with the direct question
we know that in the world there are thousands and
thousands of the most normal amount seems
that really was a tremendous problem
between humans
the fact of forward communities are
so varied and numerous
then the question is is it positive or
negative
of entry seems negative truth because
if we remember one that we all remember
the famous biblical story the tower of
Babel
remember that humans seem to
they wanted to make a tower that will arrive
even the idea that he did not like the
sir and sent an angel so that
I confused two languages and I do not know
understood then they could not do
nothing if we think so is a
curse but there is a linguist noam
stainer that says something interesting that
has that it was not really a
curse of means but rather a
blessing in disguise because the
possibility that reality will be seen
from different angles of gecko points
of different view as it happens with
the languages that each language does not present
a way of perceiving and of thinking
reality in a different way is a
immense wealth is forests what
compared to forests are now because
the ap
they are sounds sometimes very alien to
we difficult to pronounce but
that strike us
difficult to enter into it but they will see
you that I am going to try to find
some gap to penetrate those
forests or not but first I would like
tell them about the many prejudices
that we have around languages
for example there is talk of what is more
easy to the language that another or that one is
more beautiful than another richer than another
that does not make sense because every language
and in the south and that is in turn that
particular
if we naturally have your goal if
we left the Latin language as the
our
another language we think the Italian the
French Portuguese does not seem more
close because the same atmosphere of
Latin is also enveloped by
aroma did not come Catalan
good but in reality then those that
as as forests in which we
we feel the intimate family members do not
just because they are just the same
family but we have no problem with
These problems have not felt that
They are different
we feel like they are not equal to the
comfort with which we move by the
paths of our forest that is the
Castilian but I was telling you then that
we can not say that this language is more
another more rich sounds are
more pleasant because naturally
we are used to has determined of
way that you will hear certain sound of
our vowels and our
constants that can naturally
touching us suddenly is a sound that we
it’s hard to pronounce or something
Well, but everything is habit
everything is habit and I told him that if there
prejudices then sometimes very
rooted in how much how that some
Languages
then they are for example closer or
or more distant to us and those and those
prejudices
we must overcome it for example there is a
prejudice with the border language
We know that the one closest to us
here to the west a few kilometers from the
border with brazil
then there is a whole one way to
speak that sometimes we say portuñol
just that it was very like how
neglected in a long time changed the
linguistic point of view on these
Border systems in Spain are
Valley of Mexico and the United States
lately the interest for
these languages and in our country has
A book was recently published
praised by a poet of artiga february
they had severe and it’s called north noite and
and it is in Portuñol that it is
came in schools to ban and
even to sanction has also been left
the point of view has been changed more
well has aroused new interest others
other languages that we should have
feel closer but they are
extraordinarily leave us
which are the languages spoken in
these lands before the arrival of
Spanish conquest true then the
indigenous languages here there is no
No language speaking community
indigenous because together with the extermination
from its speakers it was all over
for example, the truth language
we have only a few words left in that
language and the Guaraní that surrounds us
Everywhere right here is for the
name of this spa and the name of
our country
the name of the city that we live
huge amount of names in the field
the Guarani and we do not know
pronounce two well because what happens and
the vowels of guaraní are different to
the goals especially the letter and is the
of water is a law is a sound more
cultural
we are so used to
only one and it turns out that the empire has
the visual that costs us softer and the
and French and German have in the
I saw and it turns out that the Guarani has its
time the moon
from here until not so much that a young
Paraguayan who have significantly
Guaraní also as official language
He got on the bus and asked that
they will check and when they arrive on the street and
discuss anyone inside guard and
sodas 3 and ibicuy our street jujuy
transformed into a word
the victim is to say that of course they are
sounds foreign to our language
then I had the pleasure I wanted
tell them of having attended to be in
a place was one of these festivals
of poetry that Mario had organized
benedetti in Spain and and there was
several latin poets many poets
Latin American and one of them
it for the Spanish young people of law
or are in Spanish and a problem of
him and in guaraní and and in the charm
They asked me to repeat
that is, they listen to the indigenous language
that there is in Spain and the other one that
little in cordoba also in a
meeting of poets with a Mapuche poet
of a poem and made us go for the first
the Mapuche language
what would the idea be then
happened now that I’m talking about
poems of read poems is not a
method of learning
no, I do not think it’s going to be a challenge
learn a foreign language not method
but if it was possible that we do this already
that we have a technology that
lets try to say to say but
had pronounced a couple of girls in
a poem from a language we do not know
but what can we do and what we strive for and what
we repeat what we put and we repeat
notice that it is possible then that
we open our ours as saying the
possibility of phonetics of our
language aa 6 you can do that
can and I want to tell you that I
it happened with good note
it’s an exotic language but I do not
I really fell in love with modern Greek
It seems exotic and distant but I heard
there is a poem also in the
a chance turned on the radio and
there was a Hellenic mission a son of
Greeks passed Greek music and
I read a poem and read it in Spanish or
if in its original language it says why
not learning is that everything is I had
the great advantage that I realized that
were our vowels that the Greek did not
it does not have that difference that I said
between the me for example above all
when that time and open our law
Greek is ours no more had the
advantage of a very political system
similar to ours
maybe with some sound like the quote
what has the Portuguese does not have
french nelson saved or o that sound
and but it’s easy it ‘s easy because it weighs
they are and the signs a little different
that has the risk some
a few different but each sign is
a very very easy sound to play
get material at the Greek embassy
Ask North America for bilingual books
in English is a remarkable royal bridge
English or I learned them in a way
traditional by the river demanded a
effort a pleasure to look for material and
see what was going on and I got to the
happiness of being able to feel that
at least I gave the Greeks do not jump
he talked he did not talk and so when
they invited me to a congress of
translators
I’ve been reinforcing poetry for years
Greek new technique
when I got there to Delphi I could give myself
the taste had to speak English not
for power and they apologized that I
arrived in France and after a while it happens that
It is the bridge between all those who
they came from very different authors
and well and then I said I was going to try
to see a translation into Spanish and
a poem by constantino cavafis with the
I’m going to finish this talk the poem
present to the days that we have left for
live the days of the future like candles
lit and it says hot and it bases
quality candles and then this one are
few liñaio more reinforced to learn
the company wrong because the poem is
called candles that was written with
uppercase and jolie wants
and the video told me he wanted to say the
accent but then I followed and liked
because I already tell you from the fact that
phonetically we are the risk is
behind our language is like going to
the father’s house with Latin and
grandfather with the Greek and I said then
I said I wanted to say true and I said yes
You give me is this with zimmer
gross is more
he will also continue that ana mena
that party that I am of grace and with this
those three lines are already ico with that
entrance into the sound forest that is the
Greek and would like to finish because I
I’m glad that it came to me
who lived in new york came to me
later to say hello and said I do not know
the Spanish but having read you
in our language in Greek and in
I seem to hear the same
melody played different instruments
I felt great pleasure thank you very much
[Applause]
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