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Posted on December 5th 2018
What Languages Do You Speak?
Our new Linguists Club celebrates the wealth of languages spoken by girls at Harris Academy Bermondsey. Girls come to the club to teach each other the languages they know and learn new ones too.
“Last session we learned the numbers in Kurdish, Italian, Turkish, Dari, Arabic and Yoruba,” says Ms Maqueria, one of our language teachers. “The girls love that other students are learning their language and valuing it too. It’s also a great opportunity to practise speaking their language, as it is not something they always do that much. We also discover surprising things such as that the numbers in, Kurdish, Turkish and Dari are all very similar.”
The club is a great place to share cultures and languages. We’re #ProudToBeHAB of our lingusts, as we can now say in Dari, a variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan (see below).
Top picture. Learning the numbers in Dari, a variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, at our Linguists Club.