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  • Hello, I'm Lucian, and I'm age seven in Year three.

  • My name is Gabby, and I'm six.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • [[Amharic] Greetings! I am 10 years old.

  • [Amharic] 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?

  • [Spanish] Thank you very much!

  • [Spanish] And...

  • [Spanish] I like...

  • [Spanish] my...

  • [Spanish] hands!

  • If you're hungry you say [Czech].

  • [Spanish] Manos?

  • [Spanish] 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.

  • [Spanish] 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.

Hello, I'm Lucian, and I'm age seven in Year three.

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