Elementary school teaching 41 kinds of foreign languages

In Japan, foreign languages ​​taught in compulsory education are only English, but in the UK there are 41 elementary schools that teach foreign languages, elementary school students going there can speak fluent foreign languages.

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It is the Newberry Park Elementary School in the UK that teaches 41 kinds of foreign languages. Elementary school students seem to be able to talk using Afrikaans, Hebrew, Norwegian, Japanese, etc.

Foreign languages ​​taught by Newbury Park primary school. Additional Latin additions to this list are also considered.


Pupils from France, Germany, Norway and others have gone to a position to teach in their native language classes, now seven years old students from Nepal are teaching. Teacher Joe Debono says, "To speak a lot of languages ​​gives pride to their children and they are proud of that."

Newly-valley park primary school building.


The British government seems to be planning to learn foreign languages ​​at all elementary school from 7 years in 2010.