Lin Guimei, a native language promoter in Gaoshi, has been involved in the promotion of indigenous languages ​​for a long time, and often talks with people in their native languages.

(Photographed by reporter Wang Rongxiang)

[Reporter Wang Rongxiang/Kaohsiung Report] The Executive Yuan Association for Indigenous Peoples annually evaluates the promotion personnel of indigenous languages, and there are less than 10 excellent ones. However, Lin Guimei, a promotion personnel of indigenous languages ​​in Gaoshi, was able to win two consecutive awards among more than 100 promotion personnel of ethnic languages. Received honors every year, the Gaoshi Aboriginal Association publicly pays tribute to Lin Guimei.

The Aboriginal Association pointed out that the efforts of teacher Lin Guimei have been recognized, and it has also made the outside world feel that Kaohsiung City is spared no effort in promoting ethnic language work, because language carries the culture of an ethnic group, and culture is the soul of the country. Language It is extremely important to the life of ethnic group culture.

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The Aboriginal Association introduces Lin Guimei, who grew up in Baoshan, Taoyuan District, Kaohsiung. She always believes that speaking ethnic languages ​​is a daily routine. Of course, she has also experienced the policy of banning dialects, and she was excluded because of this, but she never cared. Joined the work of ethnic language promotion in 2009.

In promoting the ethnic language work, Lin Guimei deeply believes that the ethnic group should participate and promote it together, so she often sees Lin Guimei collecting language materials in Yuanxiang, discussing issues with the ethnic group at the meeting place, and even shuttles around the metropolitan area In the streets and alleys, the family language is spoken in one family after another.

Abs, chairman of the Kaohsiung Aboriginal Association, said that language is the carrier of culture. The Aboriginal Association has been committed to promoting the revitalization of ethnic languages ​​for many years. In 110 years, it issued the Kaohsiung City Ethnic Language Certification Reward Points. In 111 years, it issued a total of 949,000 yuan Incentives are used to benefit the ethnic group. In addition to stimulating the interest and enthusiasm of the ethnic group to learn the ethnic language through the incentive money, they also take the lead in contributing to the inheritance of culture.

Abs said that it is very important to cultivate a language learning environment. Every language pusher works very hard and it is not easy. Faced with different time and space and environmental objects, it is necessary to switch to different teaching methods. Thanks to every language pusher for bringing the inheritance The sense of mission of the ethnic group.

Lin Guimei, an aboriginal language promoter in Gaoshi, has been awarded the Excellent Award by the Central Aboriginal Association for two consecutive years.

(Photographed by reporter Wang Rongxiang)