Let's speak Srpski!
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This document discusses the importance of preserving one's mother tongue language. It notes that while English is an important language, forgetting one's native language threatens a people's identity, history, culture and traditions. The document advocates using Serbian in Serbia to keep the language alive. It provides tips on how to promote the mother tongue like using it more often in daily life and media. Overall, it argues that a shared mother tongue helps bind a community together and pass on its positive cultural values.
Let's speak Srpski!
- 1. I F Y O U T A L K T O A M A N I N A L A N G U A G E H E U N D E R S T A N D S , T H A T G O E S T O H I S H E A D . I F Y O U T A L K T O A M A N I N H I S L A N G U A G E T H A T G O E S T O H I S H E A R T . N E L S O N M A N D E L A Lets speak Srpski
- 2. Serbian restaurant There is no doubt that the English language is a very important medium of education. But that is no reason why we should forget the importance of our mother tongue and the traditions and culture of which it is an integral and important part. It is the SERBIAN language that makes SERBIAN a nation. It is the language we communicate with people throughout this tiny country of ours. Once we stop paying due respect to our mother tongue, our history, culture and traditions could also become the result of such a development can only be bitter and painful.
- 3. Our workshops The aim - to raise awareness of the importance of mother tongue
- 5. When in Serbia, speak Srpski ExchAnge office We dont realize how lucky we are for having our own language. That makes us unique. Yes, English is important. But the fact that English has become more important than our own language is terrifying. We should not forget something our ancestors fought for a long time. When you're in your country, speak your language! Don't kill it. Seriously, don't kill your language. If we were to kill the language, we'd have to find an identity. We'd have to find an existence. We'd go back to the beginning. Or we'd disappear, become extinct..
- 7. How to promote mother tongue Start using Serbian everywhere you can (on social media, at school, at restaurants, on the street...). Start reading more in Serbian. Try to influence mass media, important people in the country, teachers and everyone else not to use Anglicisms and pay attention to false friends. Join the 亠亞仄仂 仗从亳 亠亰亳从 organization.
- 8. Anglicism and false friends Anglicism - a word, idiom, or characteristic feature of the English language occurring in or borrowed by another language. (imid転, softver, hardver, kompjuter, startovati, vikend, parking, mend転er, marketing, me, grupa, link, ek, film, tinejd転er, 邸oping, sport, tenk, traktor, tramvaj, d転emper, kombajn, biftek, video rekorder, kompakt disk, evaluacija, tenzija, menad転ment;) False friends - a word or expression that has a similar form to one in a person's native language, but a different meaning.
- 9. Conclusion There may be some who may argue that it would be better if everyone spoke the same language so as to promote communication and closer ties between the different peoples of the world. However although this is a desired ideal, it may be achieved in other ways that do not involve abandoning the art of a language that may have taken centuries to evolve into its present day form that represents the identity of a people or a community. A mother tongue spoken helps to bind a people together and promote the positive values of a culture. If we are well grounded and know where we come from and what kinds of behavior are deemed and acceptable in our community we would be equipped to resist external negative influences that may otherwise sway us. Dragana Mitrovic Biljana Pipovic Vlasotince, 2015