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Rafael Scapin, Ph.D.Coordinator of Educational Technology

Dawson College (Montreal)

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Dawson College Seen from Space

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Dawson College

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Island of Montreal: Towns

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Dawson College

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Dawson CollegeThe biggest Cégep (college) in Québec,

with 11,000 students

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Anglophones, Francophones and Allophones

Montreal: Mother Tongue

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Montreal Population Ethnic Origin

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Montreal

Dawson Speaks Project Celebrating Dawson’s linguistic diversity

The linguist Dan Slobin once said:

“Human languages are like human faces”, capturing nicely the idea that, underneath obvious and sometimes striking surface differences, both human faces and human languages share deep common structures.

Languages can be viewed the same way: on the surface they may seem and sound completely different, but they all share underlying characteristics that make them part of the same –human- communication system….


In Fall 2012, the Dawson Languages Department started Project DawsonSpeaks: a first attempt to compile a list of languages and language varieties spoken by Dawson students, faculty, and staff.

But we also wanted every language to tell a story; we wanted every language to show its human face.

The result is a collection of personal love stories with language.


https://vimeo.com/61727562



Afroasiatic 5Austroasiatic 2Austronesian 2Dravidian 1Indo-European 33English Creole 2Iroquian 1Japonic 1Language Isolate 1Mongolic 1Niger-Congo 3Sino-Tibetan 1Turkic 2Uralic 2

Dawson Speaks Project:

14 Language Families


14 Language FamiliesAfroasiatic Austroasiatic Austronesian Dravidian

AmharicArabicHebrewSomaliTigrinya

Cambodian (Khmer)Vietnamese

TagalogWaray

Tamil

Indo-European

Albanian, American Sign Language, Armenian, Bangla (Bengali), Bulgarian, Creole (Haitian, Saint Lucia), Czech, Danish, Dari, Deccani Urdu, Dutch, English (American, British, Canadian), French (France, Québec), German (Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland), Greek, Hindi, Italian (Abruzzi, Basilicata, Calabria, Campo Basso, Lazio, Napoli, Standard), Moldavian, Norwegian (Bokmal, Trendernorsk), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Azores, Brazil, Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian (Russia, Ukraine), Serbo-Croatian, Sicilian, Slovak, Spanish (Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Ecuador, Mexico), Ukranian, Urdu, Yiddish


14 Language FamiliesEnglish Creole Iroquian Japonic Language Isolate

Jamaican patoisTaki-Taki

Mohawk Japanese Korean

Mongolic Niger-Congo Sino-Tibetan Turkic

Mongolian IgboSwahili Tshiluba

Chinese TurkishUzbek

Uralic

FinnishHungarian

Dawson Speaks Project: Language Families

http://dawsonspeaks.com/



Helen Karanika Dawson’s Modern Languages Department



Dawson Speaks Project: Videos


Sonia Zylberberg – Yiddish





Rachel Bilski – Polish





Meshu Begum – Bangla





Eun-Ah (Anna) Bang – Korean



Nicolas de Pena - Portuguese / Azores



Natalia Yanez- Mexican Spanish



Tali Yegupov – Ukraine Russian

Dawson Speaks Project

Paddie Hemlock – Mohawk (Kanien’keha)

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