The languages we speak

  • Lucía, Laura and Valeria tell us about the languages spoken in Spain. There is one official language spoken in the whole of the country (español, Spanish) and there are three co-official languages spoken in some regions. In Galicia, our region, we speak galego  (Galician) and español .

     

    These are some of our older students broadcasting their own news program. They are speaking galego  (Galician):

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    Galician is a language that comes from Latin, like Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian or Romanian. It is very close to Portuguese, to the point that some scholars consider both languages to be actually two varieties of the same language. You can see its evolution in the following map (Source: es.wikipedia.org):

    In the following video, recorded a few years ago, students and teachers say one sentence in the languages spoken and/or studied at our school: