My Project's Summary

My presentation will be talking about the main Berber languages in North Africa. My project will lead you to know about the main Berber languages in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. It will also include where and by how many people the language is spoken. It will also have the flag of the country I talk about.

The country with the most Berber speaker is Morocco. Especially in the High Atlas Mountains where there are three million people who know the language called Tamazight. From west to east, the statistics show that the amount of Berber speaker is decreasing.

I think we should keep the culture of the Berber languages because otherwise, it would finish like the hieroglyphic script. No one would understand the language and the world would loose a civilization and a knowledge. We also have to preserve it because if the language dies, the people who speak it would have no ways of communication.

I think it would be selfish to say that it is not recognized as an official language so there is no importance attached to it. We have to think that the Berbers are proud of where they are from and don't want to change their culture for something more "recent"

The Mountains of the High Atlas

During our trip to the High Atlas near to Marrakech,we saw incredible mountains. These giant amounts of rock are amazing at Imlil :

Of course we also found extraordinary mountains in the Toubkal:

What I learned about the Berber Culture

The Berber Culture

The Berbers are not like Rabat's citizens, they don't need all the things we live with... They can build houses and make bread by themselves. Also, they don't have the same habits that we have. In the morning, we wake up, we eat a breakfast and we go to school. What the Berbers do is they wake up, very early in the morning and they go to work on the lands. Berbers in the High Atlas Mountains have a difficult life because, some of them don't have the resources we have. Some of the Berbers don't have electricity for example. When they don't have water, they go to the river and take water. Do we do that? No, we just turn the tap and we drink water. An other example, for transportation, most of the Berbers move by mules. In Rabat, most of the people move by cars.

That's why the Berber culture and our culture is different.

About the Week Without Walls trip

Berbers and interacting with Berber Culture

Wednesday, October 30th

The Mules

On Wednesday, we woke up at 7:30 a.m, we got dressed and went to the breakfast. I was very hungry this morning because I didn't eat Tuesday, I was sick.

After the breakfast, we had to take our bag and put them upstairs on the floor. We were ready to go ride the mules.

We spent a long time to walk at the place the mules were. When we arrived to that place, we had to wait for the Berbers give us our mules.

Each mules had one guide. My guide was nice, he knew how to control the mule and he did it really well.

Something about me

Hello everybody!

My name is Dimitri, I'm from France but I have lived in Morocco for 8 years. I live in Rabat. My school is an international school.

My Parents

My mother is called Karina and my dad, Dominique. My mum is a French teacher at my school and my dad is cooker. My dad is working in Qatar. He works in Qatar since one year.

My Animals

I have six dogs, three cats and two turtles. Five of my dogs come from the street. The sixth comes from France. It's a big and old dog.

Two of my cats come from France. The third comes from the street.

Welcome to my blog everybody!

You have to see the Berbers when they live to understand their culture. It's why, all the RAS seven'th graders went in the High Atlas Mountains (near to Marrakesh) for five days. During this trip, we lived in many different villages and we could see a lot of things about the Berbers. We all had to make a project about a topic. This fabulous trip was the main idea of the Moroccan Studies course. The Moroccan Studies course's goal this year is to learn about the first Moroccan people: the Berbers. We learned about the changes in the villages, the costumes, the agriculture, the architecture, the food, the animals, the Berber education, the Berbers during the days and years. This trip was very good and it will help us for the Moroccan Studies course.

I have a last thing to say: Ichwa Wess Ghaer Oudrar! (What's wonderful day in the mountains!)

Enjoy my blog!