Faroese fight to keep traditional language

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Vagar Island, Gasadalu, Fareo Islands - 22 May, 2007 1. Wide of mountain 2. Wide of Gasadalu village 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Asteroy, Tourism Manager/ Islander: "We are located in the village of Gasadalu. It was quite an isolated village of the Faroe islands until we at least got the helicopter. The reason is, there is about 100 metres from the plateaux were the village is located down to sea level. And very often if they built a little bridge bridges it would disappear in the winter because of the wind, storms and the waves. So the only access was actually up this mountain here. If you look there is a zig zag walking path all the way up to the area above here. It took the post man at least two hours maybe two and a half with a load of groceries on his back to get to Sorvagur town and of course the same amount of time to get back from Sorvagur to this village of Gasadalu. So today the have an access through a tunnel, so they should be quiet relieved." 4. Wide of north side of the mountain 5. Wide of John pointing to the mountain path 6. Tunnel pull out to reveal mountain 7. SOUNDBITE: (Faroese) Davur, Villager: "The tunnel is good for us villagers. Before they built the tunnel it was very difficult for us because the only way out of the village was to climb the mountain or by a rare helicopter." 8. Wide of local helicopter service 9. Close of helicopter 10. Various Arial shots of the Faroe Islands 11. Close of helicopter cockpit Streymoy Island, Torshavn - 25 May, 2007 12. Wide of Torshavn Harbour 13. Mid shot of Emma Winther (89) 14. Wide of Emma putting on computer headphones 15. Close of Emma's hand on computer mouse 16. Close of Skype computer icon 17. Mid of Emma speaking to friends in Copenhagen on Skype 18. Close of Emma 19. SOUNDBITE: (Faroese) Emma Winther (89 years), Skype Computer User: "I use it to keep contact with my friends and my family. I have children that live in Denmark. With this computer I can follow my childrens' and grand childrens' adventures and see life through their eyes when they send me photos." 20. Close of computer screen 21. SOUNDBITE: (Faroese) Emma Winther (89 years), Skype Computer User: "At the beginning I was a bit sceptical and I did not really have the courage to start using a modern computer. I actually thought I was going to be little apprehensive and I would become alienated from the outside world. But after I got started and started speaking on Skype to friends in Europe I saw the advantages and actually found out that it was not all that difficult to get into." 22. Emma pointing to her grand children in her computer 23. Set up of young Reginn W Dealgaard, Young Businessman of the Year 24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reginn W Dealgaard, Young Businessman of the Year: "Life has changed, the way the Faroese people are subscribing to international news papers and following market trends. They are also investing more in big international companies. Now we have the internet they follow the international news." Streymoy Island, Kirkjubokambur - 25 May, 2007 25. Wide of island ferry 26. Set up of linguist, Johan Henrik W.Poulsen 27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Johan Henrik W.Poulsen, Faroese Linguist: "It is important to find faroese words instead of taking the international or the English ones. There are various reasons for that. First the tradition which is rather long now for creating new words we call this purism in Faroese. Purism language means keeping the Faroese language as clean as possible." 28. Close of Johan Henrik reading 29. Close of new Faroese dictionary 30. SOUNDBITE (English) Johan Henrik W.Poulsen, Faroese Linguist: Eysturoy Island, Eidi - 22 May, 2007 31. Set up of Morag, Faroese Guest House Owner: LEAD IN: You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/73fd23dec8038dcb88dcd8f8514e9f88 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork