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Round Table China

Bonus Episode: Marking the International Mother Language Day

Feb 21, 2024
23:16
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Exploring the significance of mother language, regional accents affecting education and career prospects, challenges of Mandarin dialects in China, impact of language diversity on culture, and the role of AI in language preservation.
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  • Language choices influenced by societal trends and economic opportunities shape individual identity.
  • Artificial Intelligence poses challenges for language preservation, cultural understanding, and diversity.

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Multilingual education and language choice

The podcast episode explores the topic of multilingual education and the choices parents make regarding which language their children should learn. The speaker shares their personal experience of growing up in a region with a strong local dialect and how some classmates were encouraged to speak Mandarin instead. They discuss how societal trends and economic opportunities can influence language choices and the impact this has on individuals and their sense of identity.

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