Draw your own language portrait.

• Include all the languages you know / are familiar with.
• The languages you speak fluently should take up a larger part of the portrait than the ones where you only know a few words.
• Write a few sentences about your portrait,  which languages you know best, when you use the different languages etc.
• You can use pen and paper and take a picture of your portrait, or you can create a portrait digitally (using software) .

Some examples of things to write on your portrait:

• I live in Norway, so when I’m at school and with my friends, I mostly speak Norwegian.
• I learn French as a foreign language at school.
• I grew up with Swedish children’s TV.
• I often travel to Copenhagen, because I have a friend who lives there.
• This summer I was on holiday in Barcelona with my family, and I managed to order ice cream in Spanish.
• My best friend speaks Arabic with his parents.
• When I speak to my dog, Bibi, I use a mixture of Norwegian, German, English, and French. He responds to all languages.

Below is an example of a language portrait that you can use as inspiration.

Note: This activity is adapted from Targets. 2020. p. 14. Oslo: Aschehoug.