00:00D'inverno va young kung ish ki o a jadiné punt.
00:15I teach two languages, so English and Ladín, and I think there are many advantages for young children to learn
00:25many languages,
00:26so they gain a lot of different skills, for example creativity, a very flexible mind, and they are not shy,
00:36okay, so they are just used to speak languages.
00:38Circumfless.
00:39Circumfless, a visa.
00:41We have the paratetic school system, which was founded after the Second World War,
00:47with the idea that the half of the teaching is on German and the other half is on Italian.
00:59In Europe we have about 160 minorities, and if we take a look over the last 40 years, unfortunately the
01:09demographic development is clearly negative.
01:13We can also see why some minorities are not decreasing, and one of the key elements is a dedicated autonomy.
01:21A second point is the compulsory use of the language.
01:27Third, where the language is taught at school, and not only as a facultative subject.
01:34Two-thirds of European minorities are radically decreasing, and if this movement is not stopped, probably we will have very
01:45few minorities surviving.
01:52We are in Trentino, in the Valle del Fersina, in Bersenthal, where they speak the language of Bersenthal, the dialect
02:04of Bavarian.
02:06Good morning, how are you?
02:08Good morning, how are you?
02:10Good morning, how are you?
02:10Good, good, you too?
02:11Yes.
02:12I am here to go to the Bersenthal.
02:16Yes.
02:17We are in 1000 people who speak it, and around 200 young people who speak it.
02:25This is a little bit like a dinosaur, it is a little bit like our sentiment.
02:30It is like an animal in danger of extinction.
02:32At 35 years ago, there are certainly many more people who speak Bersenthalerisch.
02:43I think and dream about Bersenthalerisch.
02:48When I was young, we had no way of writing this language.
02:54Now, the young people have the opportunity to study one hour a week in Bersenthalerisch.
03:01I fear that in the future our language will not be spoken more.
03:12There are always fewer children who know the language.
03:17Many don't understand the language.
03:22And that's not good.
03:25As Europeans, the conservation of these languages is important for our structure and our identity.
03:31And that's not good.
03:36A minority can be really an asset for a state.
03:40Multilingualism and multilingual people are an asset.
03:44And where minorities are living normally, the wealth of the country is raising for everyone, not only for the minorities
03:57themselves.
04:04The Ladinian culture and language will be supported.
04:08There are many institutes that work for them.
04:12Therefore, the expectations are given to us that Ladinian in the future, in 50 years, will be spoken.
04:28It's going to be a challenge to keep the Ladinian language.
04:32I think the most important thing is to motivate the students.
04:36Maybe not to strive for the perfection, but for the passion for the language.
04:41I see that the students are pretty motivated in learning not only our language, but also our culture.
04:48Loss of a language is generally the loss of a culture, the loss of a view how to see the
04:56world.
04:57So it's exactly the same like the loss of an animal species or the loss of a plant.
05:04It's a loss that you cannot make change anymore.
05:14Thank you very much andinating for your reach.
05:17Gracias.
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