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POST-VIEWING TASK

Analyze the episode from the point of view of its content: novelty of the ideas, validity of the argumentation. Make use of the expressions below.


  • dominant language 
  • cease to exist 
  • a different perspective 
  • language revitalization 
  • footprint of English 
  • rebuild the cultures 
  • perilous state 
  • a marginalized language 
  • lack institutional support 
  • undeniably valuable 
  • document the language 
  • embedded in their culture 
  • policies of forced assimilation 
  • underpin people’s well-being 
  • normalize a multilingual world
  • groundswell of language activism 
  • the scope and scale of language diversity 
  • interference of a locally dominant lan-ge 
  • respect the diversity of people’s abilities 
  • reclaim ancestral languages 
  • accelerate an initiative to keep your language alive 
  • assigned counterpart to a locally spoken language 
  • invasive scrutiny of majority language speakers 
  • normalized as a language of everyday use 
  • misconception about language diversity