{"id":6448,"date":"2018-11-01T15:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utalk.com\/news\/?p=6448"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:15:10","slug":"languages-are-our-heart-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/languages-are-our-heart-and-soul","title":{"rendered":"Languages are our heart and soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Languages say something about our culture and our soul, according to uTalk&#8217;s language guru (pictured).<\/h4>\n<h4>Which is why Brian Loo Soon Hua, who knows upwards of eight languages, is worried about the number of endangered languages on the verge of becoming extinct.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8216;Languages are going extinct and regional differences are slowly dying out,&#8217; he says. People are thinking more and more alike. If language equals our culture then we&#8217;re becoming more homogenised, uniform&#8217;.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8216;It&#8217;s good on one hand because people are connecting across borders. But we&#8217;ll lose some of the creativity, soul and the idiosyncrasies that make humans human,&#8217; he adds.<\/h4>\n<h4>uTalk supports minority as well as mainstream languages and, out of its 141 languages, more than ten are classed as endangered or vulnerable.<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6450\" src=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n.jpg\" alt=\"376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Languages say something about our culture and our soul, according to uTalk&#8217;s language guru (pictured). Which is why Brian Loo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,794],"tags":[52,265],"class_list":["post-6448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelearning","category-language-stories","category-utalk","tag-languages","tag-utalk"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":6448},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Language Learning"},{"value":51,"label":"Language stories"},{"value":794,"label":"uTalk"}],"post_tag":[{"value":52,"label":"languages"},{"value":265,"label":"uTalk"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Richard Howeson","author_link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/author\/richard"},"comment_info":1,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Language Learning","slug":"languagelearning","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":254,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":254,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Language Learning","category_nicename":"languagelearning","category_parent":0},{"term_id":51,"name":"Language stories","slug":"language-stories","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":51,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":30,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":51,"category_count":30,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Language stories","category_nicename":"language-stories","category_parent":0},{"term_id":794,"name":"uTalk","slug":"utalk","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":794,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":78,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":794,"category_count":78,"category_description":"","cat_name":"uTalk","category_nicename":"utalk","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":52,"name":"languages","slug":"languages","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":52,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":58,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":265,"name":"uTalk","slug":"utalk","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":265,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":62,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10601,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions\/10601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}