This week is packed: Vietnamese language and the Moon Lantern Assembly!

Watch this space for more info!

This week we are learning Tagalog. Tagalog is one of the 120+ languages spoken in The Philippines. Tagalog is spoken by not less than 26 million people in The Philippines alone.  At Holy Family, we have over 35 students who speak Tagalog. Other Filipino students at our school speak Cebuano/Visayan and Ilokano. We’ll look at those languages later.

Here are some of our students speaking Tagalog.

Ishi, yr 2

Roan Vadda Librea, yr 7

Ishi greeting us

Chelo Rivera, Kiara Baniqued and Roan Librea in a Tagalog conversation

This week’s focus is Arabic. Arabic is spoken in 22 countries by over 200 million people. As a liturgical language is used by 1 billion people!

Arabic is not just one language! There is the Liturgical Arabic which all Muslims should know because is the language used in the Qur’an.  Then, there’s the Modern Arabic used in writing that many Arabs know. The Egyptian Arabic is the most widely spoken because there are 80 million of them and because they lead in terms of music and media in general.And then, there is a variety of dialects spoken across the 22 country and 2 continents.

Here are some of our students who speak Arabic:

Jasmine and Jibran Zebian

Karlos Bou Karroum

Lilian Chehayeb

Lynn Hassan

Omid and Amin Hussani

Lara and Olivia Richani

Jad Jamarkani

Feryal Faizan

Mrs Rita Giannakakis

Kem-chho!

In week 7, we learnt about Gujarati and the beautiful state of Gujarat. We learnt about the beautiful temples, great food and dance and about the prevalence of the name Patel.

Here are some of our Gujarati speakers:

Week 6’s language of the week was Dinka. Dinka is spoken in Southern Sudan along with other languages.

At Holy Family,  we are lucky to have a number of Dinka speakers.

Matthew and Ayok Mel

Tina Deng

Nguet Deng

Emmanuel Deng

Anyuat, Atong, Awur and Akur Deng.

Also, Francis Deng and Deng Maliul.

What’s happening in R/1 CM and R/1 MC ?

The students have been writing their own diary books based on the text “Diary of a Wombat” by Jackie French

Open the link below to see  Tauya’s creation ! Great imagination everyone! Well done!

Mr Wallace

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