Moreover, it would be extremely strenuous for students to learn sixty-two languages throughout their educational experience. Learning indigenous languages is “no easy task, though. Cree is very complicated, and the same words can have different meanings depending on the intonation”. This quotation from the first article shows that in Cree (an indigenous language) words have different meanings based on the pitch or melody of the word. Cree also contains a lot of complex and long words such “as the Cree word for school [is] kiskinwahamatowikamik”. It is too much to ask for us to expect students to learn sixty indigenous languages when they can barely even learn
Moreover, it would be extremely strenuous for students to learn sixty-two languages throughout their educational experience. Learning indigenous languages is “no easy task, though. Cree is very complicated, and the same words can have different meanings depending on the intonation”. This quotation from the first article shows that in Cree (an indigenous language) words have different meanings based on the pitch or melody of the word. Cree also contains a lot of complex and long words such “as the Cree word for school [is] kiskinwahamatowikamik”. It is too much to ask for us to expect students to learn sixty indigenous languages when they can barely even learn