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I wanted to start the talk by asking is
that looks is the person who is next
of you by his appearance for his
appearance
you could identify or find out the
language that speaks speak to this person
another language that is not Castilian
speak english speak french
will speak Catalan will speak that cast
talk to your agile and I really can not
continue for time and also in this
enumeration of languages because the
number of languages although we do not create it
that exists in the world is greater than seven
thousand nobody really knows how many
languages that are spoken in the world
What we do know is that they are
distributed geographically in a very
disparate while in Europe we have
about 250 languages nobody knows either
how many in Asia are more than
two thousand 200 languages
another very clear example of this
Disparity is for the United States
there live two languages very
important for its global projection and
global which are Spanish and English
Together they coexist about 200 languages of
native to medem native of groups
Latin American countries, many of which
they are in danger of extinction
but let’s go back to the partner
they have by their side by many languages
what happens person maybe he has
two natives native learned another never
will overcome these two people by
example that we have here as examples
of historical polyglots
it is said that even one of them spoke
more than 60 languages is a bit weird that
it is more likely that he translated them
I understood them to speak so many languages is
quite hard enough
what can be more secure is
that the person who is by his side to
your side is learning there
wanted to learn or be targeted
learn English
In fact, the language that most studies in
Spain as a second language as the
our
era is English and according to a study
that was made in 2002 in the year 2012
in the in the european commission in the
European Union only for some or for
others
22 percent of Spaniards are
able to hold a conversation
more or less fluent in this language in the
English and some like me that I know
linguist does not ask me why
we learn languages because we want
learn another language
in this study he also asked himself
the respondents because they learn
languages and good for most of
dell of the planet
the reason to learn another language
It is usually a pragmatic utilitarian type
that one wants to ascend in his position of
work get a job
go abroad to work
study in another language
but the interesting thing about this survey is
that in the specific case of
Spanish had the fifth reason
for which they attend we do not attend the
Spanish another language is to know
another culture to know the other
then how do we know that other
Normally when we study a language
they give us a textbook they give us
materials we have a teacher are
able those materials that we have
in front of us to explain from
reflect all the variety that the
culture of the other or on the contrary we
they present once a vision
neutral sweetened a little light I would say
I
the textbooks really has
changed a lot those of English that
they use for example that in Spain they are
enough or try to make an effort
for showing a little more diversity
there is a lot of difference from books that
we used 30 years ago
that there is now but still in the
textbooks the materials even
the professors we are and of all the
the matters
we are influenced by bias
this bias has different
aspects here we can not treat them
all hopefully but we can think for
the simplest thing is to see are the
stereotypes but there are other
many facets of many
Sometimes we do not think about the omission of a
concrete group in the case of language
who speaks that language but is a group
minority or for example the
fragmentation of history or
presentation let’s think about the culture
as nice as only those
parts of the history of culture and of
the foreign language that interests us
remember then this happens too
in the linguistic part in the part
linguistics when we have a language
we assimilate that there is always something right
what the natives say and something else
incorrect which is what we say
others when the reality is different
not all Spanish speakers in the
we talk like we do not all think
the same not all of us laugh with the
same jokes is we are different and that
is what we need to make understand
people when they want to embrace our
culture and this is for me calling me more
attention in a time when
we have a possibility to know better
to the other through social networks
we would think it good that now
through cinema, culture and so on
we have greater access to that information
unfortunately it is not like that because
still the vision of the of what
are the corporations the
multinationals is very present and what
that prevails is the vision of the most
privileged is the situation regarding
more or less like that briefly in English
in Spain, what happens where I am
where people study Spanish to
perhaps learn each other’s culture the
presence of Spanish in the United States
it is overwhelming
compared to what we can
speak here of english
all those little dots that we want them
represent the populations the part of
the population in the united states that
He speaks Spanish and his presence is
of course in stores dedicated to
Hispanics but also throughout the
political part with with with messages in
socio-economic commercial Spanish in the
health
the Spanish
It is part of us in the United States
even in universities in the
schools
Spanish is what you learn the most
compared to other languages
but what happens as you all know of
Spanish in the United States is
associated with a group that unfortunately
this in turn has associated with
negative stereotypes and prejudices in
The hispanics
these prejudices somehow makes
years were decreasing
but since the arrival of the lord
president of the last to the white house
the prejudices have been increasing
the question is that the students
other students are learning a
language associated with a group that is not
privileged
quite the opposite in the ray because
looking for photos for this one
for this presentation I came across
one of these affirmations that are made
before the elections in 2012
saying no no
the next president of the states
united will have to speak to the force
Spanish is not that
on the contrary, not only does he not speak it
who despises him
then we are generally the
teachers in all subjects but
more in the case of languages
faced with a situation in which
we have to be a language that is
associated with stereotypes in some
more positive cases in other cases like
in Spanish more negative as we
we can face that situation the
different ways of facing a
situation that is not acceptable to be
can summarize in three there are
educators who say good to me my
profession does not force me to change the
society
I have not been trained in teaching
in a very good philology to do
social criticism
I just have to teach the norm
as I said my name is John
Spanish in English or in Chinese and
these teachers simply teaching
your classes a standard present a
culture and they recommend their
students go abroad to
learn more about the culture and
communicate
there is another group the second group b
in the face of a negative situation ofsted
the change is the one that recognizes that
there is to this problem but that to your
Once you accept the fff saying good
we can do against a system
a minority system of prejudices of
stereotypes and the third group
I belong I accepted the invitation of
fedex lion and ernesto to come
here to put a grain of sand not
only as a language teacher
as mother after closed mother a son
that learn languages and the one that I do not want
that learns none of the languages that
is learning based on the
privileges of a majority and in the
prejudices to which it is subject
another a minority the change as already
has commented here I think that always
it’s possible
it is especially if one has a dream
As has already been said
achieve it to achieve it we are already a
little step closer
the first step we have given here all
together a little bit quick because of the haste
the following I hope we see you in
the next moments of our life
thank you very much for your attention
me
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