2016-2017 PCA Press Issue 20 | Page 13

Pineywoods Academy's different languages:

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Angelica Santander, Spanish

PCA has a lot of different Spanish speaking students attending the school. One of them is Angelica whose relatives are Spanish, and she only spoke Spanish before she started school. She today is both fluent in English and Spanish and has no problem switching between them. Since she already knows two languages fluently, she is working on learning Vietnamese now.

Elizabeth Eng, Chinese

When Elizabeth grew up, her family spoke both Chinese and English to her. This was because their hope was that she was going to be able to speak both languages, which she does today. When Elizabeth gets out of school she intends to travel where she will benefit from being bilingual.

Lennart Engel, German

Lennart is also an exchange student at PCA. He arrived in the US a little over three months ago and can already see how his language has changed. Lennart or Lenny as most of y'all know him as has been here for just over three months now! Just like Daniel, Lenny speaks three different languages. German, English and Latin.

Daniel Rohden, Swedish

Daniel is an exhange student here at PCA. He says that being in the US improves his ability to speak English, but at the same time makes him forget words in Swedish. " I love to make myself understood and be able to communicate with people"was his words when I asked how it felt like knowing more than 1 language.

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