chicken or the egg situation we're at a standstill
standstill
alright so here's what we need to do we
need to look at what we can do now
within the confines of our broken system
how can we make this better for the
do not accept these classes as they are
if your language teacher talks to you in
English you know what respond back in
the language that you're learning do not
be afraid to make mistakes because these
mistakes are how you will ultimately
learn this language and become better
talk to your friends in this language as
much as you can whenever you get the
opportunity language
lobbyist bill rivers once said it's not
that people don't think learning another
language is important they do it's that
they don't think it's possible but
it is now more than ever before in
history I'm optimistic that we can take
this into our own hands look at this
technology with apps like duolingo and
slow Spanish news technology
has given us a gift the ability to Skype
at will with friends and family in other
countries whenever we want technology
has given us these tools that if we use
them can revive revamp and completely
change the world language aspect of
what
would happen if we release the
expectation that students needed to
speak perfectly what
would happen what would happen if we
stopped relying on text books what would
happen if we started relying on
conversation drawing pictures
getting it out conversing with their
students about things that are important
to them all too often these curriculums
even the ones that I've said in the
classrooms of have been riddled with
passages about ancient artwork and
convoluted Wars and even worse stories
fit for toddlers what would happen if
the teachers brought in articles about
current events in the country that
speaks the language that these students
are learning about let's
engage the students and they will begin
to care too and los
los
años de colegio UT Lazaro estos días
para aprender de entender idiomas
different test translation in my years
of high school I've used these very
tactics to help learn and tell myself
learn and understand different languages Anamika
Anamika
Vashem Maureen Fatah mediums shone MOT a
chef Bichette Amy Odom she's of iodine
she'll ahem Letta Kenneth hikita translation
translation
I hope that the teachers and the
students across the nation hear what I'm
saying they hear my message and they
understand that it is in our hands to
alter the course of these classrooms I want
want
to say one final thing this
is important not just because it matters
in the classroom this is not an isolated
topic this is important because it
matters in the real world this matters
because of the two women I met at the
airport last year who were on the verge
of tears because they were about to miss
their flight and no one could understand
them they were speaking Spanish I went
up and talked to them gave them
directions to their gate and they made
it with time to spare this
matters because on my Israel trip two
years ago there were two Ethiopian
immigrants to Israel who didn't speak a
word of English and they were left out
of every single conversation until my
friends and I who spoke Hebrew in
English went over to them sat by them
and translated every single word so they
felt included this matters because of
the connections you will make this
matters because the world it can open
and most of all this matters because it
is accessible to each and every person
sitting in this room right now thank you [Applause]
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