Wednesday, January 20 immediately following the general meeting, Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday, January 27 -- Guest Speaker is Junichi Noumaru on Zooming
Wednesday, February 3 -- Guest Speakers are Charlene Iboshi and Tim Hansen
District Happenings
A series of D5000 Rotary webinars is available for your viewing, either live or recorded. You can also find ton of webinars in the Learning Center at rotary.org: https://learn.rotary.org/members/learn/catalog
Volunteer opportunity - Continuing through January, 2021 -- Junichi Noumaru
State Department of Health and UH Nursing request Rotarians to help for the face mask observation. One or a pair of volunteers will count the number of people who (a) wear the mask correctly, (b) wear the mask in correctly and (c) don't wear the mask at a designated location from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturdays:
Prince Kuhio Plaza (Zippy's)
Airport Post Office
Target/Walmart/Safeway
Hilo Farmers Market
Since Saturday morning is a favorite time slot for webinars/meetings by D5000, the host is considering to widen the time frame in the Saturday afternoon.
If you have any question, please contact Dr. Glauberman (glauberm@hawaii.edu).
Today's Inspiration
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson
Guests
Thank you for joining us!
Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker Dr. Yumiko Ohara December 16 2020
Wednesday’s Guest Speaker was Dr. Yumiko Ohara and her presentation was “The “real” language situation in Japan and its implications”. Even though Japan is considered a homogeneous country culturally and linguistically there are other languages within its borders that are in danger of being lost. The Japanese government lists the 7 languages in danger as dialects of Japanese not separate languages. UNESCO claims there are 8 endangered languages including 6 languages in Okinawa. Dr. Ohara used the expression “thank you” to demonstrate that the languages are mutually unintelligible. In general, if a dialect is being spoken there should be mutual intelligibility. A traditional language that is classified as a dialect can have damaging results such as endangerment or death of the language, loss of traditional knowledge, and loss of identity among others. She directed us to the website www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php to see a map of the world’s languages that are currently in danger.
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