Tobermory Vocational Languages

The library was the place to be today where there were language challenges going on all day.  Decorated with our flags from the World Cup and some EU balloons I acquired at SETT pupils were able to win a lollipop in exchange for counting to 10 in a language other than English/French/Gaelic (the 3 languages [...]

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The local Mod hit Tobermory this weekend and so we took the opportunity to speak to a few Gaelic speakers for the website.  It was great to hear Gaelic spoken so widely over the weekend and the interviews carried out by two former pupils Alasdair Whyte and Kirsty MacKinnon sound fantastic.

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We were out and about again today as we caught up with Tanny.  Yet again the girls were impressed with the language skills of our interviewee, Tanny speaks 4 or 5 Indian languages as well as English, French, Italian and German. 
For the connection between cheese, culture and languages watch out for Tanny’s interview on our [...]

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This morning we did a couple more interviews for our website. First stop was Christina, born in Switzerland, she has worked all over the world and speaks several languages.  Her first language is Italian so the girls were able to get in a bit of practice.
Next we went to the Himalyan exhibition which regularly visits [...]

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Our Italian studies were put on hold for an hour as we welcomed Grant, who is a former pupil of Tobermory High.  Grant is currently working in a school in Japan and came into, with his friend to be interviewed about his language learning, for our European Language Day website. 
It was a great chance to [...]

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A bit like Gregory in “Gregory’s Girl” these were my only words of Italian!  Over the summer holidays I started listening to “learn Italian” podcasts which I found quite useful.
 
I have now listened to 5 Italian podcasts and think I’m doing quite well, in fact better than I imagined. When I was learning French and German [...]

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Welcome to the S5/6 Vocational Language Course.
This is a new course where pupils will use technology to try and learn languages which interest them and which we are normally unable to offer in Tobermory. 
 Starting this week with Italian they are setting themselves weekly targets and will record their own progress on their own blogs.  There [...]

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