Learning Chamoru, learning your native language connects you to your ancestors both living and those from long ago. It makes it so that you can speak with your parents and grandparents in the language that once filled the Marianas like birdsong, but is today (just like the birds for Guam) becoming increasingly endangered and quiet. But it also means you are connecting to your ancestors from generations before. Changes notwithstanding, the Chamoru language remains the most enduring, living, breat