Modern Foreign Languages

Everyone is doing a mini-topic on Celebrations. Shall we do this in MFL too?

(East African) Swahili time runs from dawn to dusk, rather than midnight to midday. 7am and 7pm are therefore both one o’clock while midnight and midday are six o’clock. Words such as asubuhi ‘morning’, jioni ‘evening’ and usiku ‘night’ can be used to demarcate periods of the day, for example:
saa moja asubuhi (’hour one morning’) 7:00 a.m.
saa tisa usiku (’hour nine night’) 3:00 a.m.
saa mbili usiku (’hour two night’) 8:00 p.m.
More specific time demarcations include adhuhuri ‘early afternoon’, alasiri ‘late afternoon’, usiku wa manane ‘late night/past midnight’, ’sunrise’ macheo and ’sunset’ machweo.
At certain times there is some overlap of terms used to demarcate day and night, e.g. 7:00 p.m. can be either saa moja jioni or saa moja usiku.
Other relevant phrases include na robo ‘and a quarter’, na nusu ‘and a half’, kasarobo/kasorobo ‘less a quarter’, and dakika ‘minute(s)’:
saa nne na nusu (’hour four and a half’) 10:30
saa tatu na dakika tano (’hour three and minutes five’) five past nine
saa mbili kasorobo (’hour two less a quarter’) 7:45
saa tatu kasoro (’a few minutes to nine’)
Swahili time derives from the fact that the sun rises at around 6am and sets at around 6pm everyday in most of the equatorial areas where Swahili speakers live.

Now you can impress your friends and family with your amazing general knowledge
BJ

Well done Abdullah for qualifying for the National Final

Abdullah will be learning Swahili so if anyone wants to have a go and see if they can learn some too, there are some games here

BJ

Congratulations to all our North of England Regional Finalists in the Junior Language Challenge.
They are Abdullah and Zain in Year 5, Muskaan, Tulsi, Ayesha and Matten in Year 4. Well Done
They will now be learning Korean. If you want to support them and help them along the way, you can learn some phrases here

And you can learn some interesting facts about South Korea here

We will also be hosting the final in September so it would be could if we could all learn to say Welcome in Korean to our visitors.
BJ

Year 3 are learning this song

Here are the words – see if you can join in
Cabeza, hombros, rodilla, pie

ojos, orejas, boca y nariz

The disks have arrived! I can sign 30 children up now to take part and learn Greek. See Mrs J if you are in years 4 or 5 and want to take part

Right Lidget Green, I have told you I am visiting a Spanish school in the holidays, what do you want to find out about schools in Spain. You all know what my memory is like so post your questions here so I can’t possibly forget.
BJ

Yes it’s that time of year again.
The time when Lidget Green shows off to world how brilliant they are at languages.
I have signed us up for 30 places on the Challenge but we can have more.
So come on Year 5, come on Year 4 make this the year that a Lidget Green Pupil gets to take their family to Africa.
The first language is Greek
Good Luck
Find out more about it here and the charity it supports here

Tasbiha asked me to post the link to the BBC Spanish site on here so she can find the games easily. So here it is BBC Spanish

Lidget Green has subscribed to a new website with lots of games to help you learn French, Spanish, German, Italian or even English.

You need the username and password to get into it but if you ask Mrs J she will tell you the secret.

The website is Linguascope Try it and see how good you can get.