This is one of my favourite comments on language learning.

Over the next few days I’ll be posting some ‘posters’ featuring quotations responding to the question Why learn languages?

Here’s the first, featuring a quotation from Wittgenstein.

Had a little play around again with Wallwisher and made a wall of Christmas songs in Spanish and Catalan.

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A lovely Christmas song, written by José Luis Perales and performed here by Los Toribianitos, and today brought to my attention by one of my online friends, Francisco Meza in Perú.

NAVIDAD NAVIDAD EN LA NIEVE Y LA ARENA 

NAVIDAD NAVIDAD EN LA TIERRA Y EL MAR (BIS)

Mientras haya en la tierra un niño feliz 

mientras haya una hoguera para compartir 

mientras haya unas manos que trabajen en paz 

mientras haya una estrella, habrá Navidad.  

Mientras haya unos labios que hablen de amor 

mientras haya unas manos cuidando una flor 

mientras haya un futuro hacia donde ir, 

mientras haya ternura, habrá Navidad  

Mientras haya un vencido, dispuesto a olvidar 

mientras haya un caído a quien levantar 

mientras haya una guerra y se duerma un cañón 

mientras cure un herido, habrá Navidad

Given my love of Pocoyo and the imminent festivities, I just had to share this clip with you.

Here’s a lovely Spanish carol I’ve found on Teachertube. it’s originally from the LCF site Babelzone which is a (very reasonably priced I have to say) subscription site, but there are a number of their resources shared on Teachertube too.

and for the French teachers amongst you, here’s an alternative version of the Twelve Days of Christmas in French.

I’m helping the producers of the BBC schools website a bit this week, giving them some suggestions about their Primary French and Spanish pages.