INSECURITIES ABOUT THE RÉUNION ISLAND CREOLE LANGUAGE

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Insecurities about Language

Alexandria Robinson

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Insecurities about Language is about my journey with learning a new language and tackling the death of language within families. I will have many conversations with those on the same journey, from teachers, from those teaching their kids, and really anyone who wants to have a conversation about language! And tackling Insecurities. This podcast is for people who are learning a new language, who want to learn a language, and people who grew up speaking a language but forgot it. If you fall into one of these categories or somewhere in between, then this podcast is for you!

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INSECURITIES ABOUT THE RÉUNION ISLAND CREOLE LANGUAGE

Insecurities about Language

1 hour 10 minutes 53 seconds

3 years ago

INSECURITIES ABOUT THE RÉUNION ISLAND CREOLE LANGUAGE

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Nelsy (Yseuln), currently living in Amsterdam. She was born and raised in Reunion Island, which is located between Madagascar and Mauritius. French and Reunionese creole are her native languages, and she has a strong interest in language learning. She gave a thorough background about when she began learning languages and her journey. Nelsy talks about the official and unofficial language of Reunion Island, French and Reunionese Creole. She mentions joining Twitter was a big turning point in her language journey with English. Nelsy has learned many languages and has a tendency to take on languages with a different writing system, like the Korean language.

We get a history lesson for Nelsy about Reunion Island and the language and discusses about some of her own fears or questions with her local language, such as the lack of written literature and therefore most people including herself cannot write the official/conventional way as historically due to slavery it was a spoken language, also the "value" of the language with French, as creole languages are also seen as not a real language.

Nelsy has provided some music, poetry and literature of her island. Be sure to check it out and her on instagram, below are the links.

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Traditional/Folk Music : it is called Maloya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SadOY4sUOo&ab_channel=BourbonCuivre-Topic (this song basically explain what is Reunion Island and Creole language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nP6Tz45K_U&ab_channel=PsykoPictures%3Acha%C3%AEneofficielledesr%C3%A9alisateursHonoretKeran (old song but super famous the group itself is one of the most known face in this genre for my Island - language is primarily creole )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3sMYRKFga0&ab_channel=mru95 (another famous one group)

New/Urban/Club music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTvqYrbwEjQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJY12NW7R4&ab_channel=DjSebb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pclj6rDIETM ( a bit more lover music like we call it)

In regards to poetry it's a bit tricky but there are some

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fonnk%C3%A8r-Libert%C3%A9-Laetitia-Boqui-Queni/dp/2343087792 (for example also bilingual ones with French)

https://halldulivre.com/livre/9782910791285-zordi-an-kase-brize-alain-armand/

This is a website for Author in the area but usually most are in French. Literature wise it's just more common.