Finally!

Now that its done...its the execution that's gotta come..

Poster

Jason Wong Zhin-Ming

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"Dying Language"

Artist Statement

The Kadazandusun language, is the mother tongue of the Kadazandusun. In most wet markets, that’s where the language are also spoken to communicate amongst themselves – the consumers and the sellers. Although the language is widely known by the older generation of the Kadazandusun community, different areas of Sabah have different dialects of the language and it may be difficult for the one end of the chain to communicate to the other. It is slowly dying especially among the young generations, they don’t speak it at all.

Teaser

This is a very simple teaser video that I made...no worries..its just less than 20secs..

Ideas of prototype

Well...this is my version of prototypes..so no one say that its wrong or how it should look like..but anyway...here it is..


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surveys

1. What is your gender?
2. What is your age?
3. What is your race? 
4. Can you speak Kadazan?
5. How frequent do you use the Kadazan language in daily communication?
6. Does your Kadazan relatives, grandma/pa, parents can speak Kadazan?
7. As a Kadazan, do you think that the language is important to us and it should be pass down to the next generation? 
 8. Would you like it if the Kadazan language can be learned digitally?
9. Do you think there's something unique about the language that should be preserved? eg. the tone, humor, etc? 

• Q8: most want it to be digital..

• ...about Q9..re:The tone, kadazan have a unique way of talking that it differs them from normal sabahan/malaysian

...this makes me feel like want to change the direction of the issue...maybe I will emphasize the tone of the language?!

My Raya week

Okay...this is a bit off topic but anyways...it was Raya Week!
And I flew back to Kota Kinabalu..so far for this year I did went to two open house...one that's a family friend to my whole mom's side families and another one is my cousin's house.

My observation was much clear on this one. All youngsters including myself and my brothers and cousins..we spoke Malay(baku)+English. No one was speaking a single phrase of Kadazan..Haha