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.