my name is Adnan and I've been learning Mandarin inside school.
I want to be into banking
because there's lots of money.
maybe I can get lots of deals by talking to Chinese people.
We're not learning something that we're used to and it's not like anything
we've ever done before.
We're just used to doing like English and maths but now
we're going to learn a completely new language.
It's actually really unique,
it's really interesting, and it's fun to do.
You become more confident as a person
being able to communicate with others.
I think Spanish is really useful because
40-plus countries speak Spanish so I think business wise it's gonna be helpful in the future.
Maths and English, it's more like write in your books and look at the board,
but here we get to interact.
I've been teaching my parents.
My teacher Miss Smith started to teach us French
From learning French I learned German,
From being in Germany I found out about Hamilton theatre, and here I am today
talking to you about learning languages, having had a career that's gone on for
40 years now.
languages for me are about opening the world up.
It gives you another soul, it gives you another person,
and, you know, the world became more mine
When you go on a holiday people just talk in languages that you can't even
understand a word of, but since I'm learning Mandarin,
hopefully I can actually understand what they're saying.
If I can meet people at this age and be able to
talk to him in a different language, then what can I do when I may be a couple
years older?
Merci beaucoup Mademoiselle Smith!
thank you Miss Lee Oh.
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Merci beaucoup miss Babur!
Gracias Professor Raskoschnitzka.
Xièxiè Fan lao shi.