European Day of Languages

To celebrate European Day of Languages last week, S2 and S3 spent some time in class to research a few of the more than 225 languages that are spoken on our continent. Some of these languages are spoken by millions of people, others are used only by a handful and are sadly close to dying out.

Everybody in Secondary 2 and 3 got to choose a language and then found out facts about it, for example how many native speakers there are, in what countries the language is spoken and they also learnt how to say a few things like “Hello/How are you?/Thank you” in their language. The pupils created a poster about their language to display and share what they had found out with the rest of the school. Some pupils chose languages like Georgian and Greek and were shocked when they realised that those languages don’t use our Latin alphabet, so making their poster was surprisingly hard. Others noticed that some languages like Spanish and Italian are closely related to French, which we learn in class, so they could understand a lot more than they thought.

Here are a few photos and a video of a few S2 pupils saying “Hello. How are you?” in the languages they researched. Can you guess the languages they’re using? Thank you to Brooke in S3 for putting the video together.