Mothertongues

By RTÉ KidsKids & Family Education for Kids

Mothertongues episodes

June 30, 2022 Cant and Traveller Culture
Michael and Winnie Ward are settled travellers from Tuam Co.Galway, The Irish traveller community is also sometimes known as Rilantu Mincéirí and Shelta is recognised as their language. It’s widely known as Cant but fewer and fewer people within the traveller community speak it. But it hasn’t stopped them giving it a go.
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9 min
June 16, 2022 International Day at Presentation School Tralee
We visited Presentation Primary School in Tralee who recently hosted an international day, to celebrate their multicultural school. A school where 36 languages are spoken by students from around the world!
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11 min
May 19, 2022 Ask an Expert, Part 3
Language expert Rose Bridle returns to Mothertongues to answer our students' questions about how different languages work!
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6 min
May 11, 2022 Creole
On this weeks episode of Mother Tongues we are joined by a family who speak the native language of Mauritius - Creole!
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6 min
May 05, 2022 Shona
On this week's episode of Mother Tongues, we meet Liane and her mother who speak Shona, the official language of Zimbabwe!
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5 min
April 28, 2022 Finnish
On this weeks episode we meet Niko, Mia and their Irish Finnish family who live in Dublin. Listen back to learn Finnish phrases and songs
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5 min
April 21, 2022 Ask an Expert, Part 2
How are languages invented? Why are there so many alphabets? We return with part 2 of 'Ask an Expert', where we asked linguist Rose Bridle to answer your language questions. Listen back now!
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6 min
April 14, 2022 Brazilian Portugese
On this weeks episode of Mother Tongues, we meet Laura and her sister Clare - a musical, Brazilian Irish family who love to sing in different languages!
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5 min
April 05, 2022 Heritage Language Schools
Weekend heritage language schools (also called Saturday schools) are community-based settings where children work on their family language or minority language. On this weeks episodes we meet students, teachers and parents from Swedish, Mandarin, Greek, Dutch and Czech Saturday schools.
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15 min
March 31, 2022 Bulgarian
This week we meet Neven and his mum Vicky - a Bulgarian-Ukrainian family that live in Ireland. If you would like to learn some Bulgarian phrases, or are interested in learning about life and culture in Bulgaria, listen back to this episode!
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11 min

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So many kids in Irish schools speak more than one language every day.They might use English in school but when they’re at home, families communicate in a way that feels natural and for some, that’s in…