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"When a simple sentence makes you fall in love with your mother tongue."

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"When a simple sentence makes you fall in love with your mother tongue."

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I visited El Ateneo Grand Splendid, in Buenos Aires, in 2018. El Ateneo has been rated by the British newspaper "The Guardian" as one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world. Being there was like being in a dream. It's a luxurious theater turned into a bookstore. Its grand staircase and beautiful balconies remind you of its former days as an elegant theater. Now, it is the grand theater of a different art-the art of books! All in Spanish-my romantic, beautiful, and sweet mother tongue! Decorating one of the walls in front of the staircase, a simple sentence made me stop in my tracks. Pure beauty caught in the combination of a few words: "Quiero un amor que no me deje otra opción". (I want a love that will not leave me an option)

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My mother tongue is Polish. It's important to me because it's a link to my lost past. And when I hear it, even though I don't speak it but for a few basic phrases, it feels like a mother's hug.

Some favorite quotes:

Litwo! Oగczyzno moగa! ty గesteś గak zdrowie:
Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie,
Oగczyzna, Zdrowie,
Tęsknota
Kto cię stracił. ǲiś piękność twą w całeగ ozdobie
Wiǳę i opisuగę, bo tęsknię po tobie.
-from Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz

Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła (Poland is not yet lost)
-from National Anthem by Józef Wybicki

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Arabic poem, "Damascus Road" by Akram Alkatreb (NJ based Syrian poet)

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Arabic poem, "Damascus Road" by Akram Alkatreb (NJ based Syrian poet)

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طريق دمشق
أُفكر مثلاً أن نستقلّ سيارة أجرة
ونختبىء في الجبل قرب مقام ابن عربي.
الفوتوغرافي يريد أن يأخذ من وقتك ليلتقط لك صورة على طريق دمشق
بينما أبناؤكِ ينتظرونكِ في بيت يوحنا المعمدان:
هنا حيثُ حياةٌ كاملةٌ تحدثُ لملاكٍ من العصر الوسيط.
في تلك الساعة
في ذلك المكان حيث الجراح مرتفعة عن الأرض
والبشر ذوو أجنحة..

Damascus Road

By Akram Alkatreb
I think, for example, of riding a taxi

and hiding in the mountains, near Ibn Arabi’s shrine.

The photographer wants to take a photo of you on Damascus road,

while your sons are waiting for you at John the Baptist’s house:

here, where a complete life happens to an angel from the ancient time.

At that hour,

the wounds are higher than the stones.

And wings grow on people.

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Video poem "Life" by Orhan Veli Kanik in Turkish with English Translation

I know, living is not easy;
It is a benefit to give your heart and sing a song;
wandering in the starlight at night
warming up in daylight during the day;
find an opportunity like this, half a day,
Being able to come sideways to Çamlıca hill ...
-A thousand kinds of blue flow from the Bosphorus-
Being able to forget everything is in the blue.
I know, living is not easy;
but here
a dead man's bed is still warm,
someone's watch is ticking on his wrist.
It's not easy to live, brothers,
not to die either;
It is not easy to leave this world.

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پوئم سمفونی کردی - Kurdish Poem Symphoni

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Persian Poem by Saadi Shirazi
بنی‌آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
که در آفرينش ز یک گوهرند

چو عضوى به‌درد آورَد روزگار
دگر عضوها را نمانَد قرار

تو کز محنت دیگران بی‌غمی
نشاید که نامت نهند آدمی

All human beings are members of one frame,

Since all, at first, from the same essence came.

When time afflicts a limb with pain

The other limbs at rest cannot remain.

If thou feel not for others' misery

A human being is no name for thee."

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The importance of the mother tongue in our lives.

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The importance of the mother tongue in our lives.

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My mother tongue is Turkish. The mother tongue should never be forgotten, it is also part of your culture. You feel comfortable like at home.

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T4P Youth Voices: Mother-tongue based multi-lingual education

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The United Nations observes International Mother Tongue Day to "promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism." 

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The United Nations observes International Mother Tongue Day to "promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism." 

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What is your mother tongue? Why is your mother tongue important to you? 

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What is your mother tongue? Why is your mother tongue important to you? 