Mr. Alvino Fantini

Dr. Alvino Fantini is Linguist and the director of Bilingualism in a multicultural program at the School of International Training He speaks on the topic "Language in the worldview". Dr. Fantini spoke in English interspersed with Spanish. He described language as something we use to communicate and to excommunicate. Language mediates nearly everything we humans do. Language makes the anthropoid a humanoid. Through language we know what we can and cannot do and what we can and cannot know. People want to improve their culture. They must struggle with language to do so.