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DYING LANGUAGES

When a language dies, the UNESCO says that the world loses a cultural heritage (legends, poems, knowledge, live style…)

In 2008, died the last native speaker of Eyak, and she took the language with her. She was Miss. Marie Smith Jones and she died at the age of eighty-nine.

The UNESCO says that if we want to preserve our language diversity, we have to be proud to speak our language and prevent it from the extinction.
In the last five years, the governments of Mexico, New Zealand and the United States managed to make sure people are conscious about the danger of losing one language. But according to the UNESCO, the phenomenon of dying languages appears in every region and in very diverse economic conditions.

A great deal of: many, a lot of something

Campaigning: taking an action aimed at achieving a goal.

First swine flu case in Europe

The first confirmed case of swine flu in Europe has been diagnosed in Spain. The health ministry of Spain confirmed the case on Monday morning.
The patient is twenty-three years old, and he is from Albacete. He had fever when he arrived home from Mexico last Wednesday and on Saturday night he was isolated in a hospital room. After that, twenty suspected cases of swine flu are under investigation, these twenty people are from Madrid, Barcelona, Mallorca and Basque country.

All of them had recently returned from Mexico but, none of the cases is thought to be life threatening.

Fever: unusually high body temperature caused by an infection

To be life threatening: to be severe enough to cause death