Bonjour, hola everyone!

Senor Silva and myself, Madame Daire, wish to share with you a bit of what our 7th grade world language students are up to!

For the past month, the students in each class have been working on their individual ‘voyage’ ‘viaje’ projects in which they each created a slideshow and spoke about where they went, what they did, saw, ate, etc.

Those initial presentations were done in each class, individually.

Today, we brought the two classes together so that the students from each language class could present their trips to each other.

The idea of exposing the students in a full language immersion experience, to hear a presentation in a language that they do not know and are not familiar with, creates an environment where language is celebrated and recognized by both the specific language learners and those that are entirely new to the language.

The students can see the similarities between the two foreign languages, and the English language. Seeing the cognates, the context and expressions used help them to understand the ‘jist’ of what is being said.

The connection between images and the spoken word are also important tools in any language learning experience.

They also have a taste of what it is like to teach their classmates a language!

We will continue our dual presentations which will hopefully start to build excitement for our 9th grade trip to France and Spain in 2020, which is the cherry on top of the Word Language program at Berkshire Country Day School.

Cordialement / Sinceramente ,

Madame Daire & Senor Silva