Personal Response

„The key to revitalizing a language is by motivating a new generation of speakers.”

The first question that must be considered is the fact that over the last decade, the dominance of English as a major international language has significantly increased. This phenomenon did not only limit the use of variety of languages but also led to their extinction. Many languages are dying out due to the process of globalization and internationalism. For this reason, there has been introduced an attempt to revive the dying languages. The aim of the language revitalization is to expand the number of people who are fluent in the particular language in order to preserve the existence of this language. The objective of those actions is to maintain the unique cultural heritage of many civilizations. It is a matter of a great importance to promote the study of endangered languages and to encourage people to develop their language skills. This can be done through the promotion of many form of education such as online courses, pre-school programs and school programs (due to the fact that children have a great skill of fast learning), and many more. Moreover, what should be also popularized is that in today’s world it is significant to be well educated and multilingual. Motivating a new generation of speakers allow us to prevent the lose of cultural identity, history and tradition which were created through thousand of years. What is more, a vast part of the knowledge about the past and our origin come from historical sources, which cannot be read nor understood without the ability to use a concrete language. In addition to this, those language skills may be also needed to examine and interpret many traces of culture that will be discovered in the future. In conclusion, the most valuable way of protecting a language from disappearing is by encouraging younger population to learn and use the dying language. A big part of our knowledge was