At that time, when I was a student at Heidelberg, I lived one of the most exciting times of my life, and one of the best experiences I had, was to have known many people around the world, young people coming from all over the world and as spoken by the most diverse languages \u200b\u200band dialects that you can imagine, the most curious thing is that we all communicated in German, after all, bad or well spoken, we all had to learn this language.
other hand, I just read on the website of "El Comercio", an article about the actress Magaly Solier , which has just been honored in his hometown Huanta as illustrious daughter, a decoration to any person in the world would fill with pride.
What caught my attention was a statement by you, she said
"...... please call upon them not to feel ashamed to speak in Quechua wherever they are. "
Personally, and I repeat it to make it clear, personally I do not agree with this statement, or rather, I can change a little and I would say
"and invoke them please not to feel ashamed NO speak Quechua wherever they are "
Here my story back to the beginning of Heidelberg. When I was already established in my new home, a regular-sized buildings (5 stories high, I lived in the 4th.) Together with 14 other students of various nationalities, but most German and English (an Englishman, Sam, was always excited me for my love for Iron Maiden), soon came a girl from New Zealand to our flat, a bit disheveled, he spoke quickly, as the English, their English was difficult understand. According to Sam, she once told that in his city car (car) of a friend fell into the river, but everyone thought she was speaking at the start of a cow (cow), which followed this confusion was so funny because everyone thought she was talking about a cow, and the story was developed around a cow and not a car, with this an example of their English dialect.
Well, the good of Kerstin and was called, was a day in our community kitchen, and while I ate lunch, she told me some things about his life, at that time I was single, and always curious women stood around me, to see that "happening." That's where he told me that she spoke several languages, and most natural thing in the world I said other than English, could speak very well in Maori, the language of the natives of New Zealand.
While she was talking, I could not stop thinking about myself, and I had bad luck, and I have, I can not speak at all some Quechua, something she later asked me, knowing that Peru is a country with a past as rich.
learning in New Zealand Maori in all schools throughout the school time, not only that, but also everything that has to do with Maori culture. And she, despite being 100% Anglo, I was very proud of their culture.
This is not to say that I feel the same, but I would have liked that same thing happening to our country. Why not learn Quechua in schools?, Why not learn Quechua in universities? Peruvian government why do not realize that learning Quechua is learning to love more to Peru?.
Questions without answers, only one hour a week of Quechua in school or one semester in universities would enough to at least learn to value ourselves a bit more our Inca legacy, and that Indian value more suffering for so many centuries under the yoke of colonialism first, then the Peruvian Creole.
Actually I did not feel good at the moment when Kerstin I wondered why he could not speak Quechua, SI YO SOY PERUANO! It did not seem logical, and me too after I found illogical.
If you take a geography book and see the data about Peru, you can see we have two official languages, Castilian and Quechua, but only on paper, as an official language of Quechua hardly taken in school learning. You expect our government to change that? I do not now seek an answer to this question, I just want to say something:
have to give value to the language that gave us the Incas, Quechua should be learned in schools, colleges, universities, together with all other subjects.
change is imagined as Peru if all of us we could at least say a few phrases in Quechua? Imagine it, then think that would be good for our national pride, to see that the Quechua takes the position that it was meant to be together with Castilian.
From here I congratulate everyone involved in that movie Peruvian who won a Golden Bear "at Berlin, I felt very happy to read many headlines in German newspapers, with a very positive news for Peru, the Quechua and succeed, I said!!
