Documenting Endangered Languages for Posterity

A project by: Daniel Vincent

Successful

WE RAISED £6,370

from 120 donors

This project received pledges on Wed 10 Jun 2015

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Congratulations and well done for achieving this, I am very proud of you brother. Hugs. Lee. X

Yes! I'm relieved! I'm happy you achieved your goal, and I'm happy many people got to know about this way of making a project real! Congratulations!

That's great!! Congrats

Congratulations, Daniel!!!!!!

Wishing you all the best for this fascinating and important project, Daniel!

Such a worthwhile project and I am so proud of Daniel's enthusiasm and dedication to preserving what really is our collective linguistic history.

Go for it Dan! :-)

Good Luck Dan great subject :)

I think this is very reasonable. You will find solution as you go forth on your project. Good luck! Serena (I'm going to post it again as i feel that crowfunding is a good example to people elsewhere in the world. Ciao Serena

Good luck Dan!! Love and light Claire xx

Good luck with your endeavors.

Carpe that effing diem!

Good luck with the fund raising

Dan, we know you will do an amazing job! Thank you for bringing all your knowledge, insight, dedication and compassion to such a very worthwhile project. Very much enjoyed reading your first Language Alive and looking forward to more - let's get that target reached! Best of luck from us x

Ohh let's hope you get there Dan!! Such an exciting and useful project... and the best man for the job. Well done for all your hard work! x

Good luck Daniel!!! I think what you're doing is brilliant!!xo

Good luck Dan, a brilliant project for a brilliant writer and thinker. I hope you achieve your goal xxx

good luck dan- don't let communication die

Seems like a very worthwhile Daniel project. Best of luck with it

All the very best with your endeavours for this project. Alfred.

All the very best with your endeavours for this project.

Je connais Daniel depuis 2008 et ces 3 semaines passées à Londres pour affiner mon niveau d'anglais alors que j'étais encore étudiant. Le hasard a fait que Daniel était mon professeur chaque matin pendant cette période. Sept ans plus tard nous sommes bons amis et j'ai suivi ses traces. En effet, j'enseigne moi-même l'anglais au gymnase (lycée) en Suisse depuis un an. J'ai beau chercher, je ne vois personne qui serait meilleur que Daniel pour effectuer ce travail linguistique. Maintes discussions avec lui autour du sujet me permettent d'affirmer qu'il est difficile d'avoir une passion pour les langues plus grande que celle de Daniel. Qui plus est, sa maîtrise hors du commun de sa langue maternelle et de la façon dont elle fonctionne ne peut que l'aider dans la démarche qu'il se propose d'effectuer. Il est intéressant de noter que j'ai l'impression que ce commentaire est un peu dénué d'émotion (alors que j'ai au contraire un souvenir très ému de ce premier contact avec Londres et ma future vocation) car j'ai toujours communiqué avec Daniel dans la langue de Shakespeare et il est très étrange de soudain utiliser le français à son sujet. Encore un argument en faveur de l'aspect identitaire extrêmement important véhiculé par les langues, y compris celles qui sont en danger de disparaître... Good luck Daniel!

私の友達Daniel Vincentのために手を貸してください。 彼が博士号を取得しようとしている研究は恐ろしく学費が高いので、クラウドファンディングで資金調達をしています。後世に危機に瀕している言語を残していく、というとても面白い題材です。多様なアイデンティティを後世に残せるよう、違いを楽しめる世界であり続けられるよう、言語は大切なものだなぁと深く感じます。Daniel、頑張って!どうか皆さんの少しずつの助けを頂けますように。

Dear Dan, I had once, when I was in Chile, the chance to hear the recording of an old women speaking in a mysterious language. It was a Mapuche woman, the last to have still Mapuche as her mother tongue. I was very moved as I felt the pain of the Mapuche Indians, risking to be left orphans from their own culture. Since then, I deeply sympathised with those trying, by all means, to cherish any linguistic relic that could help, not only preserving languages per se, but also languages as codes to other ways of understanding ourselves, our relationship to other, our relation to the earth and to the cosmos. And I sympathise all the more since I know, from my own experience in learning foreign languages and foreign cultures, that it is not an easy task. Reflecting upon it now, it becomes quite clear, that many things about you converge towards this fantastic task and mission: your open mind, your capacity to listen and intuition to understand, the genuine interest in communication and people….not to speak of your capacity to learn foreign languages. Dear Dan….I am very happy that you are taking on this challenge and I am grateful and look forward enjoying the results of your research….. Good luck....

Enhorabuena por este maravilloso proyecto, Daniel. Y también gracias! Gracias por tu compromiso con la protección y difusion del patrimonio cultural, un tesoro para todos. Como siempre, te deseo lo mejor de lo mejor en tu nueva etapa... aunque me da una pena inmensa que te vayas de España!!! Un gran abrazo

Have the greatest success Daniel! This is a great endeavor ...and a gift for Human Heritage.

Dan-chan!!! I hope that you reach your target and I think the course sounds great and that you will do amazingly! It will be good to have you back in London too!! Good luck and I will spread the word:) Mariko x

I am sure you will do very well on this course and you will pick up those languages just as easily as all the other languages you have already learned. With much love, Jeanette

All the best Daniel. I hope you can achieve your goal for this very worthy endeavour.

Best of luck with this project, Daniel!

Dan. You will be amazing I am sure, and a credit to the subject.

good luck Daniel, hope you make it :) kelly x

good luck Danial, hop yo make it :) kelly x

This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for you Daniel and I know you would excell at the challenge wholeheartedly. I wish you good luck for raising the funding you need and I will certainly circulate the news of this site and of your plans to help you achieve the experience to study and learn more incredible languages. Lee.

Daniel is a brilliant and caring young man who has a special skill with languages. Yes, he seems to pick things up effortlessly sometimes but his secret is that he loves people. Daniel is a keen observer of our world and I can't think of anyone better suited to documenting world languages. Good luck Daniel! ( sorry, English is my only tongue)