Name: 這些多語言學校的孩子為什麼要學習更多語言？ (Why these multilingual school kids want to learn more languages)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T11:19:20.000Z
Duration: 3 min 37 s
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Hello, I'm Lucian, and I'm age seven in Year three.

I'm 32 years old, and I'm the MFL leader at Reay Primary School.

I can speak Portuguese and Spanish and English.

At home I speak a language called Amharic because I'm Ethiopian.

[Amharic] I can communicate in English, French and Spanish.

My favourite word is wŏ [我] because it means 'I' and it doesn't sound like 'I' because it has two letters when you do pinyin.

I would like to speak, probably Spanish, because Spanish is known halfway around the world, and it's the most spoken language in different countries around the world.

I would like to learn Arabic because our neighbours speak a lot of Arabic, and I wonder what they're saying sometimes.

Our teacher's Spanish and sometimes, erm we play Spanish games sometimes we do the piña dance and piña means pineapple.

Being from Ireland, I studied Irish at school until I was 16, but unfortunately I am nowhere near fluent, and I would love to be able to go home, go to the Gaeltacht and be able to order a pint in Irish.

All the languages are quite, are extremely useful, because on the summer holidays I visit new countries and English isn't the most important language because we all have different opinions on what the most important language is.

Having worked in London for so many years, it's heartbreaking that some children never cross the River Thames never mind leave the country or speak another language.

So for me, for children to understand another language, a culture, to gain experience, to have teachers that are passionate about teaching those languages as well really opens those eyes and really opens those opportunities for children that they may not think are necessarily available to them.