Sahara Al-Madi

Language of the Month April 2023: Cantonese

By Sahara Al-Madi There are over 85.5 million reported Cantonese/Yue speakers worldwide!(Eberhard, Simons & Fennig, 2022).  Cantonese is an important language to highlight as it represents a large population living within our global community who think, dream, and create just as we all do. They share a deep rooted history, culture and their impact continues […]

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Poetry Reading Event at the City of Greenbelt: Black History Month 2023

This February 19th, 2023 the city of Greenbelt Community Center located at 15 Crescent Rd will be hosting a poetry reading. They will be featuring Spoken word artists: Chris Haley, reading from his newly published book of poems, which will be available for sale; Sainey Cessay, 2021 Youth Poet Laureate, PG County; Francis Stedman, Poet

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Language of the Month December 2022: Kichwa/ Quechua

By Sahara Al-Madi For December’s language of the month, I felt it was important to express appreciation for Kichwa/Quechua.  Kichwa is an agglutinative language with SOV word order that has been spoken in the Andes region of South America long before the Inca Empire. It currently has an estimated speaking population of nearly eight and

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