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    One of the World’s 7,000 Languages Dies Every Three Months. Can Apps Help Save Them?

 

Like his ancestors, 65-year-old Clayton Long spent his childhood immersed in Navajo culture, greeting fellow clan members with old, breathful Navajo words like “Yá’át’ééh.” Then he was sent to an English-only boarding school where his native language, also known as Diné, was banned. “I went into a silent resistance,” Long says from his home in Blanding, Utah. He vowed that he would help to preserve it after he left the work he has done for about three decades as a teacher. This week, he’s entering new territory on that mission: the app store.

Long is one of the educators working with language-learning startup Duolingo on the company’s latest endeavor: using its popular app to revive threatened languages. On Oct. 8, celebrated in some places as Indigenous People’s Day, Duolingo will launch courses in both Navajo and Hawaiian, two of the estimated 3,150 languages that face doubts about their longterm survival. That’s nearly half of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken around the world.

Disponível em: https://time.com/5417035/technology-endangered-languages/ Acesso em: 29 jul. 2024.

 

Ao relatar suas vivências, Clayton Long destaca

Dom Casmurro (1899), perhaps Brazil’s most celebrated novel, has acquired in the century since its publication what must be the longest critical bibliography devoted to any single work of Brazilian fiction. Part of its attraction no doubt lies in the enigma concerning possible adultery and betrayal that many critics have found in its pages. In the distinct stages the interpretation of the novel has gone through, betrayal has been the key issue of debate.

Disponível em: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-companion-to-the-latin-american-novel/dom-casmurro by-machado-de assis/DCF5DB08148E84AC332C707F173C74D4). Acesso em: 02 jul. 2024.

 

It is noted that Bentinho silences the character of Capitu from the first to the last page, leaving the reader in a position of passivity in front of his story. Soon, the signs of betrayal described with contempt by Bentinho cannot be considered, since they are all drawings of his mind that at times showed signs of psychic disturbance.

The narrator, represented by attitudes of jealousy, exaggerates in all the described occasions. Bentinho, already Casmurro, aims to understand the events that took place between his life and that of Capitu.

Disponível em: https://amadeusjournal.emnuvens.com.br/amadeus/article/download/61/130/287. Acesso em: 02 jul. 2024 (adaptado).

 

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Leia o texto: Football-loving Brazilian nun, world's oldest person, dies at 116 (Adaptado)

Vanessa Buschschlüter – BBC News

 

    The world's oldest person, Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, has died at the age of 116. Born on 8 June 1908 in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Inah Ca nabarro Lucas became a Catholic nun in her early 20s. Her family said she always celebrated her birthday with a cake in the shape of the stadium of her beloved Sport Club Internacional - Porto Alegre's football team.

    Sister Inah, who was blessed by Pope Francis in 2018, put her longevity down to her faith, saying that "he [God] is the secret to life". The title of the oldest living person will now pass to 115-year-old Ethel Caterham from Surrey in England.

    Sister Inah's nephew said the 116-year-old had not had any illness but her body "had gradu ally stopped" working. She died in the city of Porto Alegre at a home belonging to the Teresian Sisters, the religious community she was part of.

    A keen football fan, she had celebrated her 116th birthday wearing the scarf of her favourite team. She also owned several Internacional shirts and even had a collection of pillows adorned with the team's logo, according to media reports. Sport Club Internacional posted a message of condolence on X, saying it had learned "with enormous sadness of her passing" and celebrated her life, which it said was based on kindness, faith and love of the football club.

    Sister Rita Fernandes Barbosa, a co-ordinator at the religious home where Sister Inah lived, told RBS TV that the 116-year-old had enjoyed good health for most of her life. Sister Rita said the nun had not had any surgeries until she underwent a cataract operation aged 106. Her family said that she could not hear or see very well towards the end of her life but that she enjoyed sticking to a routine. "She liked to get up, eat, and pray and sleep at the same time each day," her relatives told Brazilian TV. A fellow Teresian nun said that Sister Inah "never complained". "She is very grateful, and good-humoured," Sister Terezinha Aragon told Brazilian TV in January, when Sister Inah became the world's oldest person after the death of the previous holder of the title, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka at the age of 116.

    Born on 8 June 1908, Sister Inah had a religious vocation from early on in her life, joining a religious boarding school at the age of 16. She lived in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, for some time before taking her vows but returned to Brazil in 1930, where she taught Portu guese and maths at a school in Rio.

    Sister Rita put the 116-year-old's longevity down to discipline. "Discipline in her work and in her life, she always worked a lot and was always very sociable and welcoming."

(Disponível em: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4nv0g15xyo)

According to Sister Inah’s family, towards the end of her life, she:

Leia o texto: Football-loving Brazilian nun, world's oldest person, dies at 116 (Adaptado)

Vanessa Buschschlüter – BBC News

 

    The world's oldest person, Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, has died at the age of 116. Born on 8 June 1908 in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Inah Ca nabarro Lucas became a Catholic nun in her early 20s. Her family said she always celebrated her birthday with a cake in the shape of the stadium of her beloved Sport Club Internacional - Porto Alegre's football team.

    Sister Inah, who was blessed by Pope Francis in 2018, put her longevity down to her faith, saying that "he [God] is the secret to life". The title of the oldest living person will now pass to 115-year-old Ethel Caterham from Surrey in England.

    Sister Inah's nephew said the 116-year-old had not had any illness but her body "had gradu ally stopped" working. She died in the city of Porto Alegre at a home belonging to the Teresian Sisters, the religious community she was part of.

    A keen football fan, she had celebrated her 116th birthday wearing the scarf of her favourite team. She also owned several Internacional shirts and even had a collection of pillows adorned with the team's logo, according to media reports. Sport Club Internacional posted a message of condolence on X, saying it had learned "with enormous sadness of her passing" and celebrated her life, which it said was based on kindness, faith and love of the football club.

    Sister Rita Fernandes Barbosa, a co-ordinator at the religious home where Sister Inah lived, told RBS TV that the 116-year-old had enjoyed good health for most of her life. Sister Rita said the nun had not had any surgeries until she underwent a cataract operation aged 106. Her family said that she could not hear or see very well towards the end of her life but that she enjoyed sticking to a routine. "She liked to get up, eat, and pray and sleep at the same time each day," her relatives told Brazilian TV. A fellow Teresian nun said that Sister Inah "never complained". "She is very grateful, and good-humoured," Sister Terezinha Aragon told Brazilian TV in January, when Sister Inah became the world's oldest person after the death of the previous holder of the title, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka at the age of 116.

    Born on 8 June 1908, Sister Inah had a religious vocation from early on in her life, joining a religious boarding school at the age of 16. She lived in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, for some time before taking her vows but returned to Brazil in 1930, where she taught Portu guese and maths at a school in Rio.

    Sister Rita put the 116-year-old's longevity down to discipline. "Discipline in her work and in her life, she always worked a lot and was always very sociable and welcoming."

(Disponível em: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4nv0g15xyo)

At what age did Sister Inah undergo her first surgery?

Leia o texto: Football-loving Brazilian nun, world's oldest person, dies at 116 (Adaptado)

Vanessa Buschschlüter – BBC News

 

    The world's oldest person, Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, has died at the age of 116. Born on 8 June 1908 in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Inah Ca nabarro Lucas became a Catholic nun in her early 20s. Her family said she always celebrated her birthday with a cake in the shape of the stadium of her beloved Sport Club Internacional - Porto Alegre's football team.

    Sister Inah, who was blessed by Pope Francis in 2018, put her longevity down to her faith, saying that "he [God] is the secret to life". The title of the oldest living person will now pass to 115-year-old Ethel Caterham from Surrey in England.

    Sister Inah's nephew said the 116-year-old had not had any illness but her body "had gradu ally stopped" working. She died in the city of Porto Alegre at a home belonging to the Teresian Sisters, the religious community she was part of.

    A keen football fan, she had celebrated her 116th birthday wearing the scarf of her favourite team. She also owned several Internacional shirts and even had a collection of pillows adorned with the team's logo, according to media reports. Sport Club Internacional posted a message of condolence on X, saying it had learned "with enormous sadness of her passing" and celebrated her life, which it said was based on kindness, faith and love of the football club.

    Sister Rita Fernandes Barbosa, a co-ordinator at the religious home where Sister Inah lived, told RBS TV that the 116-year-old had enjoyed good health for most of her life. Sister Rita said the nun had not had any surgeries until she underwent a cataract operation aged 106. Her family said that she could not hear or see very well towards the end of her life but that she enjoyed sticking to a routine. "She liked to get up, eat, and pray and sleep at the same time each day," her relatives told Brazilian TV. A fellow Teresian nun said that Sister Inah "never complained". "She is very grateful, and good-humoured," Sister Terezinha Aragon told Brazilian TV in January, when Sister Inah became the world's oldest person after the death of the previous holder of the title, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka at the age of 116.

    Born on 8 June 1908, Sister Inah had a religious vocation from early on in her life, joining a religious boarding school at the age of 16. She lived in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, for some time before taking her vows but returned to Brazil in 1930, where she taught Portu guese and maths at a school in Rio.

    Sister Rita put the 116-year-old's longevity down to discipline. "Discipline in her work and in her life, she always worked a lot and was always very sociable and welcoming."

(Disponível em: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4nv0g15xyo)

Where did Sister Inah die?

Leia as opiniões a seguir, retiradas do sítio Quora, uma plataforma de perguntas e respostas on-line, que permite aos usuários interagirem entre si.

 

“While videogames can be a fun and effective way to learn English, it´s beneficial to complement this method with other forms of study, such as reading, writing, and formal language practice”.

 

“But I’m not sure video games can do well in the teaching of English. Nothing can occupy the position of a teacher, it is same in the case of video games and apps.A teacher not only explains but also answers different questions.”

 

“A video game certainly improves your language skills but it doesn't teach you everything.”

 

“Playing video games will definitely help build up your passive knowledge of English, but that’s just not the same as studying a language intensely.”

Disponível em: https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-that-video-games-are teaching-English-better-than-an-English-teacher. Acesso em 27 mar. 2025. [Adaptado]

 

Nas quatro opiniões, é comum a