Gbemisola Isimi, a UK-based Nigerian, speaks only Yoruba, her native language, to her two children. Keeping her language alive is important to her. Soon after her first child was born, she looked online for tools to help, but she was out of luck.
“I wanted my daughter to learn the language but I couldn’t find anything online,”she told Quartz.
So Isimi decided to start CultureTreeTV, a YouTube channel which helps kids learn Yoruba using fun, animated videos. Its tagline is “keeping your roots alive.” More.
See: Quartz
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