Michael and Winnie Ward are settled travellers from Tuam Co.Galway,  The Irish traveller community is also sometimes known as Rilantu Mincéirí and Shelta is recognised as their language. It’s widely known as Cant but fewer and fewer people within the traveller community speak it. But it hasn’t stopped them giving it a go.

Cant and Traveller Culture

We visited Presentation Primary School in Tralee who recently hosted an international day, to celebrate their multicultural school. A school where 36 languages are spoken by students from around the world!

International Day at Presentation School Tralee

Language expert Rose Bridle returns to Mothertongues to answer our students' questions about how different languages work!

Ask an Expert, Part 3

On this weeks episode of Mother Tongues we are joined by a family who speak the native language of Mauritius - Creole!

Creole

On this week's episode of Mother Tongues, we meet Liane and her mother who speak Shona, the official language of Zimbabwe!

Shona

On this weeks episode we meet Niko, Mia and their Irish Finnish family who live in Dublin. Listen back to learn Finnish phrases and songs

Finnish

How are languages invented? Why are there so many alphabets? We return with part 2 of 'Ask an Expert', where we asked linguist Rose Bridle to answer your language questions. Listen back now!

Ask an Expert, Part 2

On this weeks episode of Mother Tongues, we meet Laura and her sister Clare - a musical, Brazilian Irish family who love to sing in different languages!

Brazilian Portugese

Weekend heritage language schools (also called Saturday schools) are community-based settings where children work on their family language or minority language. On this weeks episodes we meet students, teachers and parents from Swedish, Mandarin, Greek, Dutch and Czech Saturday schools.

Heritage Language Schools

This week we meet Neven and his mum Vicky - a Bulgarian-Ukrainian family that live in Ireland. If you would like to learn some Bulgarian phrases, or are interested in learning about life and culture in Bulgaria, listen back to this episode!

Bulgarian

So many kids in Irish schools speak more than one language every day.They might use English in school but when they’re at home, families communicate in a way that feels natural and for some, that’s in their Mothertongue. This podcast from RTÉjr Radio is for kids, teachers and families to start sharing all the wonderful things that make us, Us!

Mothertongues

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