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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