Mrs MacFarlane, a communications officer came in to tell us all about her job. Mrs MacFarlane began with an interesting fact – around one quarter of the worlds population can speak English. This made us think, what languages do the rest of the world speak? Well, we found out that there are lots and lots! Our research in the ICT suite today suggests that there are around 7000 languages spoken in the world today. We were amazed with this fact!
Mrs MacFarlane’s job consists of lots of writing and the stories she writes are published on newspapers, leaflets and on the internet.
At university, Mrs McFarlane learned russian. We sang the alphabet in russian and learned different words in russian too.
At the end, we were given a writsband and a sticker which said ‘talk to me’ in a different language.
A big thank you to Mrs McFarlane for taking your time out and sharing your knowledge with us. We learned lots!
