Tham khảo tài liệu 'meet madonna soctomah and david francis', ngoại ngữ, anh văn giao tiếp phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Meet Madonna Soctomah and David Francis Madonna Soctomah Madonna Soctomah’s passion is the Passamaquoddy language—hearing it, teaching it and speaking it. Born and raised on the Sipayik Reservation at Pleasant Point, Madonna spoke only Passamaquoddy until age fi ve when she began attending St. Ann’s Catholic School. She later went to Shead High School in nearby Eastport, where she found herself speaking less and less of her beloved Native language and more and more English. After high school, she attended college in Bangor, and then traveled around the world to places as far away as Beijing, China. One day, while living in Hawaii, far away from Maine, Madonna’s phone rang. When she picked it up and said hello, Madonna heard something she had not heard in years—the sound of her Native language, being spoken by a Passamaquoddy friend visiting Hawaii. It brought tears to her eyes! Since then, Madonna has worked for many years within and for her community. She has been a health administrator at the Pleasant Point and Indian Township health centers, a member of tribal council, and has served as the Passamaquoddy tribal representative to the Maine State Legislature. Now that she is retired, Madonna works on projects close to her heart: teaching the Passamaquoddy language. One of her current interests is the “Passamaquoddy Transformers Theater,” a drama group that creates interactive plays about Passamaquoddy language and culture. Meet Madonna Soctomah and David Francis 2 David Francis David Francis may be a quiet man, but he certainly has a lot to say—and he can say it in more than one language. How did Mr. Francis become interested in language? Sixty years ago, a young David Francis joined the . Army to fi ght in World War II. He was a Native Passamaquoddy speaker with little experience speaking English. Mr. Francis describes his time in the Army as fi ve years “with no one to speak [Passamaquoddy] to.” However, Mr. Francis went on to master another language in the .
