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greetings, the most common phrases, and a song in Náhuatl that my grandfather sings to my grandmother when she prepares her delicious tlacoyos. My parents respect the Haitians' language, and I am surprised by my classmates who speak Maya. I hope that, very soon, we will communicate and sing in our language.

2. In communities, when you finish reading the passage,discuss the following questions:

What language strategies can you recognize in how the grandparents in the story make themselves understood?

b) Which words or signs did not change? Why does this happen?

c)What other languages are spoken in your community?

A language strategy is what you do to communicate with people in another language.

Language is very important in building personal and collective identity. It expresses ideas, thoughts, habits, traditions, and artistic works that would otherwise be lost in time. In other words, it is a way to express who we are.

Retrieval

Oral and written language help us express our ideas and reveal who we are. Thanks to language, we can recognize ourselves and those around us. We use it to express ideas, feelings, habits, stories,and traditions. It is a cultural heritage because it is an important part of our identity. However, language does not always stay the same, because it changes with time, as we do.

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