In February, LAE took part in the British Council's festival of language through their 'Celebrate Speaking' Campaign.

Throughout the month, staff and students shared their love of language through the recitation or performance of either their own or a native author's creative writing, songs and recitations.  This project helped LAE celebrate the skill of speaking a modern foreign language confidently and coherently. Speaking is an important part of the MFL curriculum across the United Kingdom and a significant part of linguistic and cultural development for all learners of languages.  At LAE, language study is seen as a transformative journey that can reshape brains, enrich personal lives, and open doors to a world you never knew existed.

As with all participants in the festival of language, we published many of our endeavours online under the #celebratespeaking hashtag. We share some of these videos below: 

Year 12 student, Obed recites his own poem written and performed in French, ''Ce qu'ils disent"

Irini, year 12 student, sings a short extract from "I Balada Tou Kir Mediou" by Nikos Xilouris 

In this video Profesore Iafelice discusses studying Italian with LAE students.