今日行った学校のトイレで見かけた掲示物に感動したのでご紹介。「複数言語を学ぶとどんないいことがあるか」を説明し
3番の”Kaikkialla ei puhuta englantia.”(English is not spoken everywhere.)などは、小学校で扱うべき外国語について「原則として英語」
用を足しながら、こういうポスターを見ているフィンランドの子どもたちはすごい。
参考までに、すべての項目の英訳を添えておきます。
- Wider worldview.
- The more languages you know, the easier they are to learn.
- English is not spoken everywhere.
- It helps in job application (I have good IT knowledge and am a good person – I have good IT knowledge, am a good person, and I know three languages fluently and a couple others competently)
- You understand people.
- You understand your surroundings/environment.
- You understand tubers in different languages.
- You learn new things.
- You prevent dementia.
- You value other cultures.
- You will profit in business.
- You will break the ice.
- You will learn something about your native language.
- You find info more easily, and can shop online more easily.
- You will be able to read literature in the original language.
- You deepen friendship.
- You understand something minor and majority.
- You will be able to play with tongues.
- There is no harm doing it.
- Artificial intelligence is not (quite yet) the fish of Babel.