Saturday, April 13, 2013

Our Mother Tongue Language, Use it, aaaaaaaaaaaaaannndd Love it! :D

Dear MCS girls,

I hope everyone's enjoying the mother tongue fortnight events as much as us mother tongue (MT) teachers have enjoyed preparing them for you! Really, in addition to your own MT language, I think it would be even more wonderful and exciting to learn one another's MT languages!

Here are the lyrics for the song "The More We Get Together" in three different languages to get everyone started. If anyone can contribute the Hindi version, please let me know!
(You can email me at lin_yingying@moe.edu.sg OR put a handwritten note in my locker, no.85)



2H girls giving their thumbs up!
Tamil:

Naam Ondru Koodi Yerunthaal
Koodi Yerunthaal, Koodi Yerunthaal

Naam Ondru Koodi Yerunthaal
Magilchi Adaivoom

Yen Nanban Unn Nanban
Unn Nanban Yen Nanban

Naam Ondru Koodi Yerunthaal
Magilchi Adaivoom

Malay: 

Bila kita berkumpul, berkumpul, berkumpul
Bila kita berkumpul, bersuka ria

Kawanmu, kawanku, kawanku, kawanmu
Bila kita berkumpul, bersuka ria

Chinese:

dang wo men tong zai yi qi, zai yi qi , zai yi qi
dang wo men tong zai yi qi, qi kuai le wu bi

ni dui zhe wo xiao xi xi, wo dui ni xiao haha
dang wo men tong zai yi qi, qi kuai le wu bi

The links to the videos can be found here:
http://emedia.moe.edu.sg/cos/o.x?ptid=566&c=/emedia/evideo&func=qsearch&needle=Values
(You may want to ask your teachers to play the videos for you in class because they would have the passwords!)





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