L earning other languages is an important part of our school.
We like learning to speak and listen to other languages, because it gives us another little piece of the world to understand. In our school we learn M aori, F rench, and J apanese. It's funny when people who speak these languages come to our school, because they get a surprise when we can talk to them in their own language. Japanese Teacher F irst we learn easy things like numbers, greetings, and colours. Then we start to do harder sentences like questions and commands.