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#1   Golden Legacy 

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    Posted 29 November 2008 - 10:39 PM

    All right, so folks, I am in need of help.

    I have a major project due in three days for my World Studies class on South Africa. My topic is on languages and their presence/impact in South Africa. It sounded easy enough, just had to write a 6 page paper and prepare a poster board.

    It turns out there are 11 official languages. Har har har, thank you karma.

    At any rate, I've got to pull together a cohesive theme for my presentation. I'm thinking I was going to tie in the different languages with the development of post-Apartheid South Africa in 1994 (with the felling of racially oriented policies), and I need help with sources. Any sites that breakdown the languages and/or linguistics, the peoples that speak each one, any resources, maps, etc. would really mean a lot. I also need suggestions on what pictures/visuals I can use on my posterboard, besides maps, since we have to give an oral presentation.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've already done alot of searching, but I just have so much going on as finals approach. Just a collection of good posts, links, essays, information, pictures, etc. would do me so much immense help.

    It really means a lot, thanks everyone.

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      Posted 29 November 2008 - 11:13 PM

      Wikipedia is always useful, but apart from that...

      www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang/ - Language histories
      www.southafrica.info/about/people/language.htm - Distribution, culture
      www.sa-venues.com/sa_languages_and_culture.htm - Dialects and adoption
      www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=South+Africa - Distribution statistics

      You said you wanted essays as well, this might be helpful.

      Language, class and power in post-apartheid South Africa - HTML version

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        Posted 29 November 2008 - 11:46 PM

        You haven't even startd?!?!

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          Posted 29 November 2008 - 11:54 PM

          Split, thanks for the links. I didn't have the latter two and they're very useful.

          Skidz, obviously I have. I've created an outline for my paper, as I do with every assignment, and I've broken it down into the key ideas, though I do need to expand to a few more. I just don't have the volume of information to expand it into a full paper, hence this topic. I was also hoping to find some material to fill up my posterboard with.

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            Posted 30 November 2008 - 12:09 AM

            Sorry, just the way your post was, I thought you were saying you hadn't even started it.

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              Posted 30 November 2008 - 12:19 AM

              Lucky for me, I have english next semester!

              ......I hate writing essays. Don't really have any advice/help for you because of that. :/

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                Posted 30 November 2008 - 03:17 AM

                Man it looks like you've got a fair bit of work to do too. I get to spend my Sunday finishing my English Literature coursework.


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