The value of learning in your mother tongue first

Opening the Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group's "Cracks in the Concrete" conference is a panel discussion tonight on the future of language revitalization. Participants Moustapha Fall (French) and Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (Linguistics) spoke to Jack Knox of the Times Colonist about the importance of being educated in your native tongue first, then using that base to learn another.  TC