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    <title>The Fluent Show - Episodes Tagged with “Sean Paul”</title>
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    <description>Learn a Language...Or Maybe Three!
The Fluent Show is on a mission to help you get excited about language learning. We learn languages every day in our lives, and have learnt over 15 different languages between us.
We share stories, news, tips, and ideas that will make you fluent...eventually. Subscribe to the show today to get your regular dose of Fluent love.
It is worth clarifying that we actively want to support anti-racism and will highlight and advocate for the equality of all. Language learning means committing to tolerance of other world views, and this open mind is a core value for me. This topic deserves well considered words so here are the best Kerstin managed to put together. (https://www.fluent.show/blacklivesmatter)
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    <itunes:summary>Learn a Language...Or Maybe Three!
The Fluent Show is on a mission to help you get excited about language learning. We learn languages every day in our lives, and have learnt over 15 different languages between us.
We share stories, news, tips, and ideas that will make you fluent...eventually. Subscribe to the show today to get your regular dose of Fluent love.
It is worth clarifying that we actively want to support anti-racism and will highlight and advocate for the equality of all. Language learning means committing to tolerance of other world views, and this open mind is a core value for me. This topic deserves well considered words so here are the best Kerstin managed to put together. (https://www.fluent.show/blacklivesmatter)
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  <title>Indigenous Languages Explained (and the Real Meaning of No Woman, No Cry)</title>
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It's the United Nations Year of Indigenous Languages
Up to 95% of the world’s languages might be extinct or endangered by the end of the century. And most of them are indigenous, meaning that they spoken by the indigenous people of a region.
In this show, you'll discover
What’s an indigenous language?
Why does it matter so much that we preserve these languages? 
Hint: Because it's a HUMAN RIGHT
Should any country at all have an official language?
And where do you start if you want to learn an indigenous language?
And we think you love a quiz as much as we do, so don't miss out the indigenous language quiz in this episode.
Support This Podcast
Like all podcasts, the Fluent Show is supported by your online reviews and word of mouth. 
If you liked this episode, please tell someone about it. Click here to tweet about the show (https://ctt.ac/00VIW), go to your Podcasts app and leave us a review, or simply text a friend about the Fluent Show. Thank you! 
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    <![CDATA[<p>This episode effortlessly covers the full language world, from Sean Paul to the UN Declaration of Human Rights.</p>

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<h2>It&#39;s the United Nations Year of Indigenous Languages</h2>

<p>Up to 95% of the world’s languages might be extinct or endangered by the end of the century. And most of them are indigenous, meaning that they spoken by the indigenous people of a region.</p>

<p>In this show, you&#39;ll discover</p>

<ol>
<li><strong>What’s an indigenous language?</strong></li>
<li>Why does it matter so much that we preserve these languages? </li>
</ol>

<p>Hint: Because it&#39;s a <strong>HUMAN RIGHT</strong></p>

<ol>
<li>Should any country at all have an <strong>official language?</strong></li>
<li>And where do you start if you want to learn an indigenous language?</li>
</ol>

<p>And we think you love a quiz as much as we do, so don&#39;t miss out the indigenous language quiz in this episode.</p>

<p><strong>Support This Podcast</strong><br>
Like all podcasts, the Fluent Show is supported by your online reviews and word of mouth. </p>

<p>If you liked this episode, please tell someone about it. <a href="https://ctt.ac/00VIW" rel="nofollow">Click here to tweet about the show</a>, go to your Podcasts app and leave us a review, or simply text a friend about the Fluent Show. Thank you!</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://go.italki.com/thefluentshow">italki</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://go.italki.com/thefluentshow">Get $10 USD in italki Credits with your first lesson purchase - no code required, click here to claim this offer</a></li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Episode 37: The Secret Languages of Great Britain (with an expert from Omniglot) by Fluent Language" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/blog/episode-37-the-true-languages-of-great-britain-with-an-expert-from-omniglot">Episode 37: The Secret Languages of Great Britain (with an expert from Omniglot) by Fluent Language</a></li><li><a title="Language is Everything: Talking Language Activism with Wikitongues" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/blog/podcast-episode-43-language-is-everything-with-wikitongues?rq=wikitongues">Language is Everything: Talking Language Activism with Wikitongues</a></li><li><a title="UN information about indigenous languages" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/04/Indigenous-Languages.pdf">UN information about indigenous languages</a></li><li><a title="Language Stories" rel="nofollow" href="https://languagestories.fireside.fm/">Language Stories</a></li><li><a title="LangFest17 - Lindsay Willams - Why + how you should learn a language you&#39;ve never heard of - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzfZw1aJi5E">LangFest17 - Lindsay Willams - Why + how you should learn a language you've never heard of - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Emma Stevens - Blackbird by The Beatles sung in Mi&#39;kmaq - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99-LoEkAA3w">Emma Stevens - Blackbird by The Beatles sung in Mi'kmaq - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Wikitongues.org" rel="nofollow" href="https://wikitongues.org/">Wikitongues.org</a></li><li><a title="Linguistic rights - Wikipedia" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_rights">Linguistic rights - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a title="7000 Languages" rel="nofollow" href="https://7000.org/">7000 Languages</a></li><li><a title="Sean Paul: &#39;Language barrier&#39; a problem for dancehall artists - BBC News" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48717846">Sean Paul: 'Language barrier' a problem for dancehall artists - BBC News</a></li><li><a title="Jamaica&#39;s patois Bible: The word of God in creole - BBC News" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16285462">Jamaica's patois Bible: The word of God in creole - BBC News</a> &mdash; A few Jamaican patois rules
Plural nouns are made with the word "dem" ("they" or "them" in English) - so the plural of "uoli prafit" ("holy prophet") is "uoli prafit dem", and the plural of "enimi" ("enemy") is "enimi dem"
The past tense is marked by the word "did" - so "he lived" is, in patois, "im did liv"
The future tense can be marked with " a go" or "wi" ("will") - "Im a go siev" is "He will save", and "Yu wi nuo" is "You will know"
</li><li><a title="The World&#39;s Most Controversial K-Pop Group - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rse0HGWdZ68">The World's Most Controversial K-Pop Group - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omniglot.com/">Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages</a></li><li><a title="Why Indigenous Languages Should Be Taught Alongside French and English - Chatelaine" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.chatelaine.com/opinion/indigenous-languages-census-canada/">Why Indigenous Languages Should Be Taught Alongside French and English - Chatelaine</a></li><li><a title="Why cultural death is a shared loss | Inky Gibbens | TEDxCambridgeUniversity - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1N0zFaELwo">Why cultural death is a shared loss | Inky Gibbens | TEDxCambridgeUniversity - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="What Gets Easier When You Study More Languages? by Fluent Language" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/blog/what-gets-easier-when-you-study-more-languages">What Gets Easier When You Study More Languages? by Fluent Language</a></li><li><a title="Talk To Me In Korean" rel="nofollow" href="https://talktomeinkorean.com/">Talk To Me In Korean</a></li><li><a title="The Add1 Challenge" rel="nofollow" href="https://courses.fluentin3months.com/p/add1challenge-pre-purchase?affcode=138646_bzrw1f2i">The Add1 Challenge</a></li><li><a title="The Alphabets : Atlas of Endangered Alphabets" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/alphabets/">The Alphabets : Atlas of Endangered Alphabets</a></li><li><a title="Ethnologue: Languages of the World" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ethnologue.com/">Ethnologue: Languages of the World</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>This episode effortlessly covers the full language world, from Sean Paul to the UN Declaration of Human Rights.</p>

<p><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/xUPGcgXQ8iWaXByCFq" width="480" height="268" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/capitalofficial-dancing-gangnam-style-xUPGcgXQ8iWaXByCFq">via GIPHY</a></p></p>

<h2>It&#39;s the United Nations Year of Indigenous Languages</h2>

<p>Up to 95% of the world’s languages might be extinct or endangered by the end of the century. And most of them are indigenous, meaning that they spoken by the indigenous people of a region.</p>

<p>In this show, you&#39;ll discover</p>

<ol>
<li><strong>What’s an indigenous language?</strong></li>
<li>Why does it matter so much that we preserve these languages? </li>
</ol>

<p>Hint: Because it&#39;s a <strong>HUMAN RIGHT</strong></p>

<ol>
<li>Should any country at all have an <strong>official language?</strong></li>
<li>And where do you start if you want to learn an indigenous language?</li>
</ol>

<p>And we think you love a quiz as much as we do, so don&#39;t miss out the indigenous language quiz in this episode.</p>

<p><strong>Support This Podcast</strong><br>
Like all podcasts, the Fluent Show is supported by your online reviews and word of mouth. </p>

<p>If you liked this episode, please tell someone about it. <a href="https://ctt.ac/00VIW" rel="nofollow">Click here to tweet about the show</a>, go to your Podcasts app and leave us a review, or simply text a friend about the Fluent Show. Thank you!</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://go.italki.com/thefluentshow">italki</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://go.italki.com/thefluentshow">Get $10 USD in italki Credits with your first lesson purchase - no code required, click here to claim this offer</a></li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Episode 37: The Secret Languages of Great Britain (with an expert from Omniglot) by Fluent Language" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/blog/episode-37-the-true-languages-of-great-britain-with-an-expert-from-omniglot">Episode 37: The Secret Languages of Great Britain (with an expert from Omniglot) by Fluent Language</a></li><li><a title="Language is Everything: Talking Language Activism with Wikitongues" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/blog/podcast-episode-43-language-is-everything-with-wikitongues?rq=wikitongues">Language is Everything: Talking Language Activism with Wikitongues</a></li><li><a title="UN information about indigenous languages" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/04/Indigenous-Languages.pdf">UN information about indigenous languages</a></li><li><a title="Language Stories" rel="nofollow" href="https://languagestories.fireside.fm/">Language Stories</a></li><li><a title="LangFest17 - Lindsay Willams - Why + how you should learn a language you&#39;ve never heard of - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzfZw1aJi5E">LangFest17 - Lindsay Willams - Why + how you should learn a language you've never heard of - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Emma Stevens - Blackbird by The Beatles sung in Mi&#39;kmaq - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99-LoEkAA3w">Emma Stevens - Blackbird by The Beatles sung in Mi'kmaq - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Wikitongues.org" rel="nofollow" href="https://wikitongues.org/">Wikitongues.org</a></li><li><a title="Linguistic rights - Wikipedia" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_rights">Linguistic rights - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a title="7000 Languages" rel="nofollow" href="https://7000.org/">7000 Languages</a></li><li><a title="Sean Paul: &#39;Language barrier&#39; a problem for dancehall artists - BBC News" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48717846">Sean Paul: 'Language barrier' a problem for dancehall artists - BBC News</a></li><li><a title="Jamaica&#39;s patois Bible: The word of God in creole - BBC News" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16285462">Jamaica's patois Bible: The word of God in creole - BBC News</a> &mdash; A few Jamaican patois rules
Plural nouns are made with the word "dem" ("they" or "them" in English) - so the plural of "uoli prafit" ("holy prophet") is "uoli prafit dem", and the plural of "enimi" ("enemy") is "enimi dem"
The past tense is marked by the word "did" - so "he lived" is, in patois, "im did liv"
The future tense can be marked with " a go" or "wi" ("will") - "Im a go siev" is "He will save", and "Yu wi nuo" is "You will know"
</li><li><a title="The World&#39;s Most Controversial K-Pop Group - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rse0HGWdZ68">The World's Most Controversial K-Pop Group - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.omniglot.com/">Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages</a></li><li><a title="Why Indigenous Languages Should Be Taught Alongside French and English - Chatelaine" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.chatelaine.com/opinion/indigenous-languages-census-canada/">Why Indigenous Languages Should Be Taught Alongside French and English - Chatelaine</a></li><li><a title="Why cultural death is a shared loss | Inky Gibbens | TEDxCambridgeUniversity - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1N0zFaELwo">Why cultural death is a shared loss | Inky Gibbens | TEDxCambridgeUniversity - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="What Gets Easier When You Study More Languages? by Fluent Language" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/blog/what-gets-easier-when-you-study-more-languages">What Gets Easier When You Study More Languages? by Fluent Language</a></li><li><a title="Talk To Me In Korean" rel="nofollow" href="https://talktomeinkorean.com/">Talk To Me In Korean</a></li><li><a title="The Add1 Challenge" rel="nofollow" href="https://courses.fluentin3months.com/p/add1challenge-pre-purchase?affcode=138646_bzrw1f2i">The Add1 Challenge</a></li><li><a title="The Alphabets : Atlas of Endangered Alphabets" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/alphabets/">The Alphabets : Atlas of Endangered Alphabets</a></li><li><a title="Ethnologue: Languages of the World" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ethnologue.com/">Ethnologue: Languages of the World</a></li></ul>]]>
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