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Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.04,0:00:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Jamal I was born in Morocco,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.99,0:00:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came to the US to further my education
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.01,0:00:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came here when I was about 24.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.84,0:00:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be honest when I first came here I was so scared
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.40,0:00:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because back then I didn’t know anything about the US.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.07,0:00:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway I came for educational purposes, I got married here, I met my wife here, started my career
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.56,0:01:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now every summer I go to Morocco
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.25,0:01:10.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have sisters that live in Austria
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.86,0:01:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are married there and live there
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.50,0:01:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am currently in a city called pensacola in florida,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.67,0:01:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the beach is not that far.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.08,0:01:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This town is small and beautiful and good for those who want to raise a family, those who don’t like crowded places and places with a tons of traffic
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.86,0:01:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people know about the existence Berbers, or Amazigh,We call, them Amazigh in our language. Berbers exist a lot in Morocco, we have Chelouh people, Rifi people,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.54,0:02:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they also exist in Algeria, Tunisia and even Libya,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.69,0:02:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you find them mostly in Morocco
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.31,0:02:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you find them mostly in Morocco
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.88,0:02:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of them only speak Berber.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.75,0:02:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people when they hear about Morocco they think it is an Arab country,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.22,0:02:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but those who speak Berber outnumber those who speak Arabic
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.45,0:02:45.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Morocco doesn’t really have Arabs but rather Berbers who became Arabized and forgot their identity , those who basically forgot their history after the coming of Islam
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.50,0:02:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of those Berbers, forgot the Berber language and started using Moroccan Derija
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.08,0:03:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the number of Berbers is very large, the number of those who speak Tachelhit is estimated to be more than 10 millions in Morocco
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.42,0:03:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they now have a big issue which the arabization of Morocco
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.92,0:03:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the government doesn’t do much for Berbers because it only encourages arabic but Berbers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.17,0:03:33.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their language is not very well taken care of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.83,0:03:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I have kids I will teach them Berber in order to speak it because it is who we are, it is our identity ,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.14,0:03:48.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is not only a language, it is our origins, our culture, our traditions
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.80,0:03:57.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is who we are, If you don't speak Berber anymore, then you have nothing left
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.95,0:04:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people tell me that Berber sounds like German or polish or even Russian to them sometimes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.02,0:04:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the RIFI Berber is a bit different from Tachelhit though