The mother tongue is the main tool for communication between people. This applies to all three forms of verbal communication: an entertaining chat, a work conversation, or a personal conversation - particularly the latter. The birth family with its specific way of experiencing and speaking, primarily steer the child towards a particular way of experiencing itself, others and the world, and at the same time, the use of a specific dialect for human co-existence. In terms of importance it is followed by one's own family. New research findings are presented which show that residents of Slovenia over the age of 50 are firmly convinced that the state, its officials, nursery schools, primary schools and academic institutions bear a fundamental responsibility for the protection of beautiful, correct Slovene in everyday use and for providing help to families in their cultural mission of transferring the mother tongue to the next generation.
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