Hello, I'm Lucian
and I'm age 7 in Year 3.
My name is Gabby...
and I'm 6.
I'm Mr. Marley
I'm 32 years old
and I'm the MFL leader at Reay Primary School.
Except I'm not 32 I'm 31!
You start.
I can speak Portuguese and Spanish and English.
At home I speak a language called Amharic
because I'm Ethiopian.
I speak Spanish
and a bit of French.
Irish!
English.
German.
Arabic.
Portuguese.
Czech.
Chinese.
Swedish.
and maybe a little bit of gibberish...
[Amharic] My name is Mahder.
Greetings! I am 10 years old.
I can communicate in English, French and Spanish.
I've got quite a lot to say
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
[Spanish] Hello! How are you?
Thank you very much!
and...
I like...
my...
hands!
If you're hungry
you say
[Czech] I'm hungry
Manos?
Manos, yes, these are hands.
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
So I would like to learn Spanish.
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.
piña, piña, piña!
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.
...and that's the end.