{"id":250,"date":"2009-03-06T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2009-03-16T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:40:26","slug":"absolutely-intercultural-78-borrowed-identities-gaelic-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"absolutely intercultural 78 +++ Borrowed identities +++ Gaelic language +++"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-250-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_078.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_078.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_078.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/email-screenshot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-294 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Achill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/w3.jpg\" alt=\"Souvenir from Achill\" width=\"316\" height=\"250\" \/>Just as much as Achill seems to have become part of the annual calendar so does the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imi.american.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intercultural Management Institute<\/a> conference each March. 2009 marks the 10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imi.american.edu\/conf2009_temp.htm\">conference<\/a> and promises to be the best yet so if you haven\u2019t already booked your place then I suggest you hurry. We\u2019re hoping to be able to bring you some highlights from the conference in a few weeks but to get the full flavour you really ought to attend in person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely Irish:<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re not talking about green souvenirs or drinking a pint of Guiness. Instead this is about about the Irish language, Gaelic, whose future is hanging in the balance. All over the world people are learning English mainly for practical economic reasons. But could something be lost if English is at the expense of the local language? Tom Johnston is a former teacher in Achill on the west coast of Ireland where Gaelic has been the native language. What is the situation now? R\u00e9ka and Kerstin, two of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rheinahrcampus.de\/international\/projects\/achill2009\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Borrowed Identity <\/a>students went to find out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely musical:<\/strong><br \/>\nPride is an important element in keeping a language alive, and so, it turns out, is music. You may recall hearing the haunting song, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulbrady.com\/lyrics\/backcentre.asp#08\" target=\"_blank\">The Island<\/a>, on this podcast last year. It is not traditional but it was written by an Irishman and one of the activities for our visiting students this year was to learn this song from Kate so that they could perform it at our final evening event. As we\u2019ll hear later, music is a way of maintaining and passing on traditions\u2026so let\u2019s go absolutely musical and hear how they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely Irish 2:<br \/>\n<\/strong>So what can be done to preserve a language? Let\u2019s find out more from Tom Johnston who tells us about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnag.ie\/?lang=ga\" target=\"_blank\">Conradh na Gaeilge<\/a>, the organisation promoting the use of Gaelic. Do you live in an area where the native language is threatened? Is anything being done to save your language? Should we be saving languages in the same way that we try to preserve animal and plant species? If you have any comments about this or any of our other content then do let us know.<\/p>\n<p>The next show will be coming to you on 20 March from Germany.<\/p>\n<p>So long\u2026stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is: <a href=\"http:\/\/eduspaces.net\/annef\/weblog\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Fox<\/a><br \/>\nEditor: Jan Warnecke<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 10pt;\">\n<div><span style=\"EN-US;\"><span style=\"small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a title=\"Download the show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_078.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=137617215&amp;s\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes-Abo<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as much as Achill seems to have become part of the annual calendar so does the Intercultural Management Institute conference each March. 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the Washington conference and promises to be the best yet so if you haven\u2019t already booked your place then I suggest you hurry. We\u2019re hoping to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;absolutely intercultural 78 +++ Borrowed identities +++ Gaelic language +++&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,15,226,7,330,5,13,325,321,349,329,338,339,419,81,420,6,320,11,997,340,73],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-absolutely-intercultural","tag-achill","tag-anne-fox","tag-communication","tag-cultural-identity","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-elmar-laurent-borgmann","tag-european","tag-european-business-administration","tag-european-union","tag-fachhochschule-koblenz","tag-fh-koblenz","tag-gaelic","tag-germany","tag-imi","tag-intercultural","tag-international","tag-language","tag-podcast","tag-remagen","tag-rheinahrcampus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}