National Geographic: Hidden Language Recorded (Listening Study Questions)

Practice basic listening skills at home. Follow the link below; watch and listen the report on the National Geogrpahic website and answer the following questions. 

 National Geographic: Hidden Language Recorded (Video)

Gist: listening for the main points (listen only once)

1. National Geographic is sponsoring the Enduring Voices project. 
2. True or false?
3. Which country was this language discovered in: Indonesia, India, Iran or Iceland?
4. Has this language been recorded before?
5. Where did the researchers record people speaking in the new language? In offices,  homes, on the streets or in the Parks?
6. Languages are not disappearing. True or False.

Details: who, where, what, when....(listen twice)

Who?        

1. What are the two names of the linguists who discovered the language?

Where?

1.           Where in India has the ‘new’ language been discovered?
2. Where do scientists think the new language originally comes from?

What?       

1. What is the name of the hidden language?
2. What did the researchers record people saying?
   
3. What were the researchers originally doing when they detected the surprise language? 
4. What kinds of information does the language contain?
5. What will happen if they change to another language?
6. 
   What is the aim of the ‘enduring languages’  project?

 How?

1.   How many languages were there in the world before the scientists went to India?
2. How many people speak this new language? What age groups are they?
3. How many languages in the world are ’endangered’?

Subtext: understanding the deeper meanings...

(consider your previous answers and try to answer 

the questions. Listen again to check your answers)

1. Can tourists go to this area of India where the language was discovered?
2. Is it easy to go to the village? Why? Why not?
3. Is the language unique? Why? Why not?
4. Are the scientists sure of the language’s origins?
5. Why are so many languages in the world endangered?