Zoom classes mean locals can more easily study CHamoru, Guam’s native language
Antoinette Charfauros McDaniel, a 58-year-old retired professor in Ohio, is trying to study her mother tongue. CHamoru, Guam’s indigenous language, is dying, with just 20,000 of the 168,000-strong population of the island able to speak it.
But the pandemic has offered an unexpected opportunity to revive it.