Langauges in Bolivia

This post is about the different languages that Bolivia has. When I went back to Bolivia to study abroad for a year, I remember my teachers trying to show us a language. I couldn't quite remember it so I googled all the languages spoken in Bolivia to help refresh my memory.

There are 26 languages spoken in Bolivia!!

Now this are probably languages that are spoken between small villages and Spanish or Castellano is the language that dominates most of Bolivia. But the language I was looking for is called Quechua.

The language of Quechua is what makes up most of the indigenous people in Bolivia. Most textbooks only reference make up people with cultural background of Quechua and Aymara.  These people live in Bolivia's highland, but recently they moved to low lines due to the reduced prices in Agriculture prices. The culture and languages of Quechua are slowly dying out. What my school was trying to do was preserve an indigenous language. They aren't doing the best but that is because of the school system itself and not because of their attempt. The point of this is because all over minority languages are being lost to the world more dominant languages. This can be good and bad. If the more dominant languages stay then the universe will eventually have language where everyone can understand one another. In the other sense, smaller cultures will have the lost their way in time because their language would have died out.

Anime And other Thoughts

This week I have really been concentrating on how to do my essay, all the different ways I can perceive the information and how I can come up with new ways to think about my argument. Through one ways that I was able to come up with an idea is how people watch Anime.
I have never been a fan of Anime so this was a way for me to research some of the cultural background behind by some people like Anime.
I have a couple of friends who are big anime fans and they often will watch anime through using sub tiles. One of the sources I got for my essay was the usage of anime as one of the shows to learn the foreign language. Although, I'm not specifically looking into foreign language I do think that it is relevant to mention anime because of the huge fan base it has.
Anyways, what I learned was that Anime is very motivated to keep the roots of their culture which is why a lot of anime isn't available with spoken over English. This allows them for the person who is watching to have to listen to Japanese. I talked this over with one of my friends who likes anime. They said that even when there is anime who has English spoken over in anime it isn't the same and not as many episodes are offered with the English spoken over version. I think this is really interested because they had a strong purpose to maintain their culture and they have maintained as their fan base grows. It's a very respectful things to do and it also encourages people to learn the language.