During the International Languages week, 55 Year 9 Language students drew International Languages posters with the aim of being selected to have their poster submitted into the New Zealand Association of Language Teachers’ International Languages Week National Poster competition.
Amy Cho 9ACS, Lily Glasgow 9WHM and Afaaf Farrukh 9WHM were selected from WGHS to enter the competition. Best of all, Amy won first prize with her poster – pictured below!
“I speak both English and Korean at home,” says Amy. “I learnt French at intermediate school and also this semester. Learning French was fun, and I can speak some French now. Making the poster was fun too.”
Afaaf (poster pictured right) says, “I speak English at home but my family communicates with me in Urdu. I can also read Arabic and Korean. I learnt Spanish and French at Intermediate and I have learnt Japanese at Westlake Girls so far.
I really enjoy the culture and language. I like the Studio Ghibli movies that we get to watch in Japanese. I feel really privileged to learn the Japanese language.”
This from Lily (poster below): I learnt some Japanese at primary school and Intermediate school. I took Japanese first semester and it was fun. I am going to take French next term and I am very looking forward to it! My dad told me if I learnt Language properly, he could take me to that country!
