R-LANGUAGE

It all started when I was about eight and I started to learn about the country's indigenous inhabitants.

• local

• foreign

• wealthy

It all started when I was about eight and I started to learn about the country's indigenous inhabitants.

• people

• landscapes

• rivers

Settlers from the north arrived in the nineteenth century and introduced diseases like measles and typhoid, which affected the local people very badly.

• influenced

• caused

• resulted in

Because music is something that reaches lots of people, I started composing traditional songs in Selk'nam and formed a band with two friends.

• writing

• reading

• selling

This meant that they had to learn some words, too.

• vocabulary

• grammars

• structures

I need to teach my language to more people because if something happened to me, it would die out all over again.

• become extinct

• flourish

• thrive

I felt a sudden desire to learn that one too.

• longing

• decision

• contribution

The trip seemed the best way to find out about my roots.

• origin

• contributions

• dedication