New Year Puo-style

15.01.09

New year Puo-style

As part of the Puo community, it is safe to assume that you value the use of African languages and teaching the next generation about the culture and people of the African continent. So to extend that value a bit further in this new year we thought that a Puo-centric resolution that’s fun, family-oriented and interactive – making it easier to keep – would be to speak to your child in an African language.

For those of you already doing so – great, but for those who find it a bit of a challenge here are some ideas that might work:

1. Try a new word a week. This can be made easier if it’s something at the breakfast table, on the road to school, at the shops, etc.; or
2. Teach them the meanings of your first names – many of our names are also used in everyday conversation; or
3. Teach them something cultural which of course always requires the use of our languages – after all there isn’t an English word that adequately captures ubuntu or lobola.
 

You might find that your child becomes more inquisitive about African languages and you find more things to explain and pass on to them. This will make it easier to stick to your new year’s resolution!

Mahlohonolo selemong se secha!