A book writer in Kasama Shula Clement says introduction of local languages in school is a welcome move.
Mr Shula who is also a Teacher at Chafwa Basic School in Kasama of Northern told ZANIS in Kasama today that teaching in local languages will enable pupils understand and articulate issues better.
He said teachers find it difficult to teach English to children especially in low grades as they fail to understand the language.
Mr. Shula noted that teaching local languages in school would revive the spirit of embracing Traditions and culture of the land. .
He has however appealed to Government to recognize local Book writers as an encouragement to write more books.
Mr. shula emphasized that pupils enjoy reading books that are written by people they know but writer are not funded to produce this books.
Shula said he has found it difficult to market Books written in local language as readers prefer English ones.
He explained that after finding that Bemba written books ran out of the market, he decided to translate all 12 books he has written into English so that people can buy them.
Recently Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba said Government wants to ensure that teaching of local languages is re-introduced in school.
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Please let people learn in English these local language will take them no where.
Please if you teacher you dont know English please promote children to learn English.
Wynter learn from Tanzania,
Stop speaking nonsense.
I support the pf on this one. English is making our children lose their identity. In South Africa, people are so proud of their mother tongues, unlike in Zambia where even maids speak English to their children. This must come to an end. We certainly need to reclaim our identity as a people, through languange.
Just to add to this, Bemba is the most spoken language everywhere because the Bembas are very very very proud of their language. When you meet Zambians out there/here, the most identifying language is Bemba followed by a little bit of Nyanja.
Lozis and Tongas are equally proud of their languages. Bembas hate Lozis and Tongas for this. They always say ‘Aba Lozi ukwi temwa’ (sic).
personal interest!! Nonsense. You want to mint cash through the destruction of our education system?
Absolutely mental! Whose crazy idea is this? Zambian languages? Do have any languages or they are just dialects? How are you going to translate all those biological terms like peni s, vagin a? Imagine your kids coming home and asking you….’Mummy what is ichiny o?’ Or ‘Daddy’ what is i tole?…’ mental……
Did you learn about those things in grade school? Not the school I went to. And I can guarantee you I am older than you are.
I think most followers of the call by Justice Minister to have vernacular languages in schools have missed the point. What he meant and which has since been verified by the Ministry of Education is that language of play will be used in our schools for early grades. He did not in any way insinuate that vernacular languages will be used as a mode of instruction in our schools, colleges and universities. MoE has since set January 2014 as a start date for grade ones to be taught in familiar language ie language of play in their vicinity, which enjoys wide use ie it will mean most areas in Luapula, Copperbelt and Northen will use Chibemba while Central will use Tonga, Bemba, Kaonde in grade 1, 2, 3 and 4, with a transition to English after grade 4. This is not using vernacular in colleges pliz
The pope has just twitted his first twit in Latin, the Vatican promoting and emphasising local language! What’s the fuss about these so called local language kanshi? cant people just emulate me and promote that which suits everyone for the common good of all?
Inferiority complex, my friend. We have inferiority complex izula mu drum na mu 20L.
I was talking to my other friend, not you, the other day. She observed that Africa is the only place where people present the image of Jesus different from the way the indigenous look. I never looked at it that way until then. She then goes to explain that, the fact that it has not bothered us to change it means that the image has agreed with the deep seated beliefs in our subconscious. If it were not, we would have changed it. It feeds a need.
I was driving from a Choma yesterday, we gave a lift free of charge to a lady who through out was just speaking bemba I had problems conversing with her because of my bad bemba. I found it awkward for her to continue speaking to me and my wife in a language we barely know. Of late it has become fashionable to use bemba to anyone whether they understand or not. She only spoke nyanja when we arrived in Lusaka and she was trying to influence her to take her to Northmead. Just saying
local languages will bring back diginity in zambia