I’m often called the “moral cop of the debate”, and one of the reasons for that is that I tend to nag to people, that we should do more debate in Slovenian.

I have several reasons for that, but at the end, I believe that it helps to develop the language, it helps begginers to start enjoying debate and it helps your debate in English as well.

There are a lot of people, that say that if you would like to go on international debate tournaments, and perform well there, you should practice more or less only in english. I do agree, that there is a problem, if you don’t debate in English at all, and then when you come to an international tournament, you have problems getting used to English again.

I just had a workshop, that also involved a section about specific debate terminology, in English and Slovenian. There are still some words, that we are not sure how to translate… And I believe we should translate them and use them, when we debate in Slovenian.

How often do you debate in your native language and have you developed the whole terminology or are you still using some English words?