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This consensus on its writing statement was made by the pre- sident of the board of the Ma- canese Association (ADM) and “There current writing does is an expert in Portuguese-ba- ver satisfactory, since we do not president of the Association for not convey the phonetics that sed creoles in Asia. have much resources and har- Macanese Education (APIM), should be in the language for Senna Fernandes – one of the dware to offer them in order to Miguel de Senna Fernandes people interested in learning,” faces of the Patuá dialect revival Maybe this will support a learning method as I yesterday on the sidelines of a he added, concluding that the and member of theater group wish to do.” conference on language contact task will involve “new mental “Dóci Papiaçám di Macau”, shock some For the stage director of the in Asia and the Pacific held by gymnastics and a new techni- which has performed on stage people a bit but “Dóci Papiaçám di Macau” the University of Macau (UM). que to approach the language.” for every Macau Arts Festival to group, “if people laugh [in our The so-called “spelling agree- However, he reaffirmed that date – recalled that the langua- I propose a new shows, it] is because somehow ment” is based on the fact that the adoption of a new system ge “fell into profound disuse” they got touched by the messa- the current orthographic sys- should not be “that difficult” as but had its importance shifted orthography for ge and they understood it and tem is based on the Portugue- other forms of creole language from practicality to a “deeper that’s very important.” se language and not all people have successfully undergone meaning related to the identity the Patuá. For him, the efforts to pro- tect the creole language are who are interested in the lan- similar transitions, such as in [of the community].” MIGUEL DE SENNA guage are able to read it. Cape Verde. In his opinion, the importan- FERNANDES necessary and become even “Maybe this will shock some There is currently no concre- ce of the language is not res- more important in times when people a bit but I propose a new te timeline for the plan that is tricted to the Macanese people the “[Macanese] community is orthography for the Patuá,” he supported by Alan Baxter, who but also for many others who turalism of Macau.” shrinking and losing its charac- said. recently returned to Macau and are “interested in the multicul- The motivation for the preser- teristics.” vation of the language is not in In order to protect that lan- terms of retaining its “utility ” guage, he added, “collective or even any “nostalgic feeling”, memory” is more important he said, but as “something that than any “ textbooks, grammar Teaching Cantonese is a we preserve from our ancestors, or even pronunciation.” the same way we keep some of “Our community is a state- matter of ‘good sense’ their objects to recall where we ment and should prevail. We came from.” want to give to the young ge- Senna Fernandes claims that nerations enough materials so IGUEL de Senna Fernandes, the pre- The APIM president explained that the clas- there is a rising interest in the they can ‘dig up’ about their Msident of the Association for Macanese ses have been planned as an extracurricular language, even among those roots,” he said, when asked Education (APIM), said that the decision to activity, which he thinks is the best approach. who are not learning it to regain about the goals of the theatrical teach Cantonese at the D. Jose da Costa Nunes “[The] campaign in favor of the Cantonese is not their own heritage. group. Kindergarten – a Portuguese school – this year a matter of position or attitude, but an imperati- “There are people totally new Elisabela Larrea, who is stu- was “a matter of good sense.” ve matter, so the communities that do not have [to the language] that want to dying the shift of the Patuá “It’s a strategy … focused on people’s integra- the Chinese language as their mother tongue can learn it. Naturally they learn from a “home language to a tion into the [local] environment,” he said. help integrate their children.” Senna Fernandes [from] it a totally different performing language”, addres- “I’m going to propose that the Macau Portu- added that not teaching a dialect spoken by the perspective of the Macanese sed the same topic. guese School (EPM) do the same [implemen- majority of the population would be the loss of people,” he said, commenting According to her study, there ting the language teaching] and I’m certain “a golden opportunity”, as the students are at the that for the time being, “my are fewer than 50 confident, that there will be no arguments against it.” right age to learn new languages. answers to these people are ne- fluent, Patuá speakers. www.macaudailytimes.com.mo DIRECTOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_Paulo Coutinho [email protected] A MACAU TIMES PUBLICATIONS LTD PUBLICATION MANAGING EDITOR_Paulo Barbosa [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS_Eric Sautedé, Leanda Lee, Severo Portela ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER + 4 Million page views Kowie Geldenhuys [email protected] DESIGN EDITOR_João Jorge Magalhães [email protected] | NEWSROOM AND CONTRIBUTORS_ SECRETARY Denise Lo [email protected] PER MONTH Albano Martins, Annabel Jackson, Daniel Beitler, Emilie Tran, Grace Yu, Irene Sam, Ivo Carneiro de Sousa, Jacky I.F. 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He said that vi- Portuguese cal treatments. On ave- Macau’s doctors. LMacau-based Vinomac Fine sitors from parts of Asia such as rage Macau spent about The three hospitals in Wines, a six-year-old distribu- Hong Kong and Japan keenly wine in Asia HKD200 million per year Macau, Kiang Wu Hospi- tor in the territory offering a recognize this, and stock up on in providing the trips, ac- tal, Centro Hospitalar Con- portfolio of wines from coun- Portuguese wines when passing is linked to cording to a report by Sou- de de Sao Januário, and tries such as Portugal, France through the city.