Contributed
*Good Morning*
We all take good morning for granted and it is perhaps the most used greeting on the planet earth among its 8 billion inhabitants.
Well, let's go global this morning.
Saying good morning to you in different languages:
Mawnin =patwa Jamaica
Dobroye Utro = Russian
So you can say Dobroye utro Vladimir 😎.
Namaste= Hindustani of India
Zaoshang hao= Mandarin from China.
Let's bark di trute.
Zaoshang hao President Ji 🤣wo shi Yamaijaren.
Bonjour= French for France and many African countries
Molo ngoko Sawubono = Xhosa among the Basotho people in South Africa.
Our Basotho friend Tlalle in Lesotho, SA will be delighted by this post.
Buenos Dias = Spanish
Guten Morgen = German
Jamaica as a leading tourist destination should become multilingual without delay.
Mandarin should immediately be introduced in schools and also a CXC subject.
This is straight pragmatic economics.
The earth has 8 billion people 2.5 speak English,
1.5 speak Mandarin those 2 languages account for half of the earth's population.
Can you imagine adding another 1.5 million Hindustani speakers language out of India.
We are already on to Spanish appr 1 billion speakers globally.
Russian 111 million what do we sell them and do we get their tourists.
Streetwise economics suggests one should diversify markets.
In event, you have an embargo placed on you by Uncle Sam, Nato Jane or King Charles. Survival alternatives must always be available.
Education is the application of knowlege gained for the betterment of mankind.
Our learning system must look at the world in the future then plan with beneficial interests in mind.
Go for it Jamaica universal languages are low hanging fruits let's pick.
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Wow! languages for development I never thought of that.
ReplyDeleteLow hanging fruit Prime Minister and Leaders of Opposition, Minister of Education ,people of Jamaica and Minister
of Finance.
Minister of Tourism Exuberant yute Ed Bartlett let me hear you.
Top a top thinking let's pick this language fruit Jamaica.
ReplyDeleteThat languages idea is the best i have heard Missa D.
ReplyDeleteThose people should be in a think tank to fill the placec with workable ideas.
Hope them run with this idea.
ReplyDeleteMr ready fi learn the Mandarin and Hindustani.
Reggae in Russian,Mandarin,
ReplyDeleteHindustani are untapped markets.
Are we afraid to earn from our talents.
Come on Reggae in China Mandarin or Cantonese.
A market of one thousand four hundred million.
Music needs no boxes and ships as the internet transports the product remotely.
Even a song punctuated with Zao Shang hao and ni Hao all over it
Ni Hao ni Hao Zaoshang hao wode Yamaijeren.
ReplyDeletePut the music to that and add some body to it.
Reggae India ,send Breadfruit to China we would run out of breadfruit.
ReplyDeleteLearning these languages could open a gold mine.
ReplyDeletePowerful thoughts not to be missed.
ReplyDeleteGood ideas
ReplyDeleteI recall going to Curacao and noticed that any language you spoke to a Curacao resident in they spoke back to you.
ReplyDeleteThat country which is Dutch thrives on trade and tourism with diverse people.
They not bawling about Colonialism and wanting to be some Republic.
They are making use of those relationships to make their country and people live well.
I did ask them how come?,
It was a education policy that all those languages be taught in all schools and I mean all,barring none.
There is precedent close enough to emulate right there in Curacao.You can go look for yourselves that is pragmatism.
Jamaica must stop wasting tome bawling who born British,American,Israeli,
Dutch or Russian ,instead maximize the opportunities those relationships offer.
Good morning in Basotho could be said "Dumela" in Lesotho or elsewhere in Southern Africa.
ReplyDeleteWhat language is that?
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