Watch talkers MoviestoWatch. The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia - not featured in the film. In intimate surroundings, a farmer, a schoolteacher, and a herder of ostriches talk about perceived differences between Latvian speakers, and about language policy and their lives.
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How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switzerland feared that High German would supplant the...
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“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married...
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Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme...
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Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when...
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The celebration of a city is held every year and nostalgia is the main guest. Around the city there is nothing but ruins and in the distance, four...
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It is estimated that 40% of the world’s population lack the opportunity to be educated in their own language. In Colours of the Alphabet we get...
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The documentary proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with...
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Whether in rock, pop, rap or slam: the people of Bern have dominated the dialect music scene in German-speaking Switzerland for many years. Why does...
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“Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”....
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Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...
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For some time now, The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language is at the center of tough discussions. For some, it’s an institution which...
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A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic on an active volcano, in...