{"id":7452,"date":"2013-02-22T20:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2013-02-22T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T12:12:00","slug":"7452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2013\/02\/7452\/","title":{"rendered":"International Mother Language Day 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was UNESCO&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/unesco\/events\/prizes-and-celebrations\/celebrations\/international-days\/international-mother-language-day\"> International Mother Language Day<\/a>.  Theme: <em>Books for mother tongue education<\/em>.  Interesting, engaging, pleasurable, informative written material in people&#8217;s mother tongues. A great hope, a great challenge.<\/p>\n<p>And Jeanie Bell got to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/drive\/celebrating-australia27s-linguistic-diversity-on-mother-langua\/4532898\">interviewed<\/a> on ABC Radio National Drive &#8211; they had a lovely peacful lowkey conversation, covering lots of ground &#8211; and punctuated by some snippets of different languages, which allowed the interviewer, Waleed Aly, to express pleased surprise that someone was talking about savings accounts in an Indigenous language.  <\/p>\n<p>Update: a few other IMLD stories:<br \/>\nin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioaustralia.net.au\/international\/radio\/program\/pacific-beat\/international-mother-language-day-preserving-pngs-mother-tongues\/1091614\">PNG<\/a>, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/news\/a\/2b9fc3804ea278ae9a76fa7da4cd6ad7\/Today-is-%E2%80%98International-Mother-Language-Day%E2%80%99-20132102Today-is-%E2%80%98International-Mother-Language-Day%E2%80%99-20132102\">South Africa<\/a> (nice graphs but sad to see the San relegated to &#8220;Other&#8221;), in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbcghana.com\/index.php?id=1.1281369\">Ghana<\/a>,  in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.belta.by\/en\/news\/society?id=707606\">Belarus<\/a>, and in a Crikey post by Aidan Wilson in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.crikey.com.au\/fullysic\/2013\/02\/21\/international-mother-language-day\/\">Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was UNESCO&#8217;s International Mother Language Day. Theme: Books for mother tongue education. Interesting, engaging, pleasurable, informative written material in people&#8217;s mother tongues. A great hope, a great challenge. And Jeanie Bell got to be interviewed on ABC Radio National Drive &#8211; they had a lovely peacful lowkey conversation, covering lots of ground &#8211; and &#8230; <a title=\"International Mother Language Day 2013\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2013\/02\/7452\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about International Mother Language Day 2013\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7459,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions\/7459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}