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Press release
Faithe d’eune pièrre trais coups – To make of a
stone three blows
To kill three birds with one stone
This year, European Day of
Languages (26th September) is just two days earlier than National
Poetry Day. To mark both occasions
L’Office du Jèrriais is encouraging hundreds of the Island’s children to enjoy
a Jèrriais poem written especially for them.
At the same time a brand-new website www.learnjerriais.org.je with
details of classes available for children and adults and learning material will
be launched.
All children in Year 4 in
primary schools, together with those in Year 7 of selected secondary schools, will
receive postcards bearing poems in Jèrriais (with English translations) on Freedom, the theme of
National Poetry Day. The poems, composed
by Jèrriais teacher and poet Geraint Jennings, are available together with
audio versions on the learnjerriais website, along with explanatory notes for
teachers.
Anyone who is not a recipient
of the poems and who would like copies can contact L’Office du Jèrriais, or
alternatively visit the website at www.learnjerriais.org.je to download
or listen to the words. Why not liberate
your Jèrriais tongue?
For immediate release.
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