Interview

Journalist: Good evening Ron.
Ron: Hello!
Journalist: I am today in Brussels, Belgium to talk to Ron, an active member of the United Nations and European comissioner. Could you tell us a little bit more about what you do?
Ron: As you said I am an European comissioner and I am focused on the protection of minority languages. We work in several countries that are starting to lose its native language due to globalization triying to protect them.
Journalist: I see you have good intentions but what exactly do you do to prevent those languages from disapearing?
Ron: Firstly we look for languages that could be in danger, once we locate them we start working inside the country, we mostly raise awareness about the problem and offer solutions, and very often the country itselve works in order to save the language.
Journalist: It seems like a very satisfactory job to do...
Ron: Indeed it is, mostly when you see all the people that gets involved.
Journalist: Well thank you for your time Ron, apreciate it.
Ron: Thank you, by.

INTERVIEW

Today I am interviewing Alan Miller, an European commissioner for the protection of minority languages.

Journalist: Hello, nice to meet you.

Alan: Hello, it’s nice to meet you too.

Journalist: Well, first of all I would like you to introduce yourself and talk a bit about your job.

Alan: I am Alan Miller and I have been an European commissioner for the protection of minority languages for 10 years. My job consists in doing research about the less talked languages in Europe and do everything possible to avoid its loss.

Journalist: An unusual job but necessary. How do you manage to maintain these languages?

Alan: This task is not done only by me and of course it is not easy. Actually the European Union is trying to promote the use of the small linguistic groups and also protect the rights of those by doing events around those languages and translating books and movies into those languages. Thanks to this and more things some of these languages have ceased to be in danger and have become more popular.

Journalist: That is incredibly good. I find this topic very interesting. It has been a pleasure to be able to interview you Mr. Alan.

Alan: The pleasure is all mine.