Those Gender Have Anything To Do With Language Learning?

Hello Language lovers,

If I was to sectionalize this topic into small bits, it would be; that those geographical location, educational level, cultural background, spiritual beliefs, age, career, financial status and finally Personal interest have anything to do with language learning?  All the above listed, do there really matter when it comes to language learning and the gender involved?

In Africa due to the hardship and continues husling. I use to think that women are more prone to learn a new language than men, because an African girl child is brought up to always multi-task unlike the boy child who is always given preferencial treatment there by lesser task.

And also women in Africa are the ones to embrace new ventures, new ideas and work with them with an open heart. But I think the reverse is the case with women in the Western world, although I think that both the men and women are prone to learning a new language or venture into anything new.

I admit that I stand corrected because presently in my language online academy program the majority of my students are males. This is very ironic to me because I wasn't expecting males to indicate interest more than the females. Also I noticed a trend in their reason for learning a new language.

All the males in my online program don't have an extrinsic motivational reason for learning this new language. They are self driven and I admire their zest for language learning. Their reason is for acquiring sake, for increasing their knowledge data base,  just in case they need it in the future, like may be, they get an opportunity to travel out of the country and they need to know a foreign language. By then, they will be very fluent  and proficient in speaking that needed foreign language.

On the other hand, the ladies in my program all have an intrinsic motivational reason for their language acquisition. One of them is currently preparing for an international exam that if she passes will enable her stay in a foreign country with permit. While the other went to France and couldn't communicate properly so she was restricted and thus because of that, she decided to learn under the tutelage of an expert which is me.

Truly speaking, I can't conclude my findings on these facts I have been able to gather from my VILA institute. So I need more proofs and facts to back up these theory of mine which states that :
 « In Africa men are more likely to learn a new language than women, while in the western both men and women are likely to learn a new language »

Leave a comment below indicating whether you are for or against this theory and give your facts.

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Frenchladydisi
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Possible Reasons Most Africans Don't Learn Their Local Languages and Why There Are Going Extinct.

 
Hello language learners,

Today I would like to write about the issue of present Africans not learning or speaking their local native languages.
Your language is your identity no matter who you are, where your from or what you do. Your language is your present day hash tag, It classify's you in your immediate environment.

Knowing your language In Africa is a thing of pride and joy. Speaking it is a thing of dignity and respect. It is well known that Africans are very diversify in their language. In an African country you could probably have an estimate of about 112+ languages in that country.

 But alas! Statistics shows that some of these languages have gone extinct because the younger generations of now speak less and less of their local native language, so it is not been passed down to the next generation, while some are about to go extinct, therefore should be preserved. Here are some possible reasons why these peculiar languages are not been spoken and are going extinct.

i) It certainly will be out of place of I shouldn't start with mordernisation. This phenomenon has eaten deep into our very core as a nation and as a people. Our quest for acceptance has made us reject, shy away and unfortunately turn our backs from our very own languages. All because we want to be accepted into the big league of western culture. We want to roll and flow with the developped countries at the detriment of our language and heritage. Disregarding our language which is our identity, which makes us who we are and what we are.

ii) The perplexity of a language is another factor to be considered, because each African language has its own uniqueness and variance in nature. Some are quit easy while others are just down right difficult to assimilate. Nevertheless, if an individual from a particular tribe has been exposed to his or her language right from birth, that person should be able to comprehend and speak the language fluently as he or she grows up.

iii) The mannerism in which a person is thought the language is also a contributing factor to why most Africans don't learn to speak their local language. The manner could be very discouraging.

iv)  The written form of most of them are lost to our ancestors and so no way of verifying if the source is correct or wrong. Due to this fact, some of this languages are wrongly written and thought to the next generation. Which goes on and on in circles or most at times are not even thought but lost.

v)  In some cases it could be that the parent of the child don't know how to speak the language, therefore his stuck in the I-don't-know-how zone of his or her language. This is a deplorable state for such an individual.

vi) Between the parent of the child It is a well known fact that in Africa the child answers to the side of the father as in claims the fathers side and not the mothers. Due to this it sometimes causes issues in the home as to who's language will the child learn first and use predominantly. The father would prefer the child to learn his language but when the father does not know his native language the mother would teach them her language if she knows her own language. But since the father will want then to learn his own may stop them base on the fact that he doesn't want them to learn the mother's language.

Leave a comment below if you are in agreement with this reasons, if not please why.

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of languages,

Frenchladydisi
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