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Mother Tongues promotes bilingualism
Posted by Free Word on 16/8/11
Mother Tongues is a new project from the Arvon Foundation, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation, which encourages young people to write in both English and their mother tongue.
Over 300 languages are spoken in London. In Lambeth, the most widely spoken language after English is Portuguese. This short film, taken at Totleigh Barton, one of Arvon's centres, shows 16 Portuguese-speaking young people from Norwood School in Lambeth.
For more information and to read examples of the young people's work on the course, in both English and Portuguese see the Arvon Foundation website
Filmed by the Arvon Foundation
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