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USC on the tip of 120 tongues
From bonjour and ciao to halo and konichiwa, four global languages will outdo English when more than 120 high schoolers attend the University of the Sunshine Coast today, Friday 24 July.
The Year 12 students from high schools as far afield as Ipswich will enjoy the expertise of USC academics and International students speaking in their native dialects as part of the Language Immersion Day.
Languages will include French, Italian, Indonesian and Japanese. The academics are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
USC School of Language Facilitator Sue Chamberlin said the increasingly popular program aimed to excite students’ interest in learning other languages at university.
“The Immersion Day is about culture as well as talking, such as our Indonesian teacher bringing his guitar to play and sing,” Ms Chamberlin said.
“The highlight is when the teenagers get to practise their second languages with people from those countries.”
– Julie Gatehouse