Mothertongues

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Language expert Rose Bridle returns to Mothertongues to answer our students' questions about how different languages work!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this weeks episode of Mother Tongues we are joined by a family who speak the native language of Mauritius - Creole!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of Mother Tongues, we meet Liane and her mother who speak Shona, the official language of Zimbabwe!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this weeks episode we meet Niko, Mia and their Irish Finnish family who live in Dublin. Listen back to learn Finnish phrases and songsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Language can sometimes feel like a mystery! Children, in every school we visited for this series of Mothertongues, had their own language questions, so we thought, why not let them ask an expert? We met linguist, Rose Bridle to help us answer their questionsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week’s episode of Mother Tongues we meet two families who speak Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, which is also spoken in parts of India. Listen back to this episode to learn more about Pakistani and Indian culture including food, wedding celebrations and of course the language!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s episode is for teachers who want to make their classroom a place where language is shared and used easily. Discover how teachers and their students build diversity of language into each and every daySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tagolog is the second most spoken language in the Philippines with about 14 million speaking it there on a daily basis. On this episode we meet Cara and her mum, who speak a mix of Tagolog and English.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Back in Our Mother of Divine Grace and fourth class stack them high but are prepared to see it fall! And everyone learns words along the way.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Roll call! And then the students become the teacher at Ballygall, in a fun take on Simon Says.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the first in a games miniseries, Fourth Class at Our Mother of Divine Grace, Ballygall show you how anyone can play a fun matching game in the yard.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of Mother Tongues, we visit St Mary’s Primary School off Dorset Street in Dublin 1. Listen back to discover how students explore language through drama and play, with theatre maker, Mark Ball.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of Mother Tongues, we meet Petra and her Irish-Slovak family. From food and culture, to family and past times, this episode is jam packed with useful phrases and stories of life in Slovakia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The first day at school is challenging for everyone. But imagine you didn’t share a language with your teacher. We visit two schools; St.Marys Primary School and Our Mother of Divine Grace school, to ask the children who’ve been through it, what advice they have for other kids in the same situation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.