LOTE (Indonesian)

Indonesian - with Ms Whelan

Students across the school learn Bahasa Indonesian weekly, developing language skills and building cultural awareness. Students are encouraged to be curious and have fun while they learn, to build their confidence and encourage engagement. LCS students enjoy learning in a variety of ways including singing, role-plays, meeting Indonesian people, incursions, cooking, art, dance, writing, reading, watching videos and online learning and games. Apart from being lots of fun, learning another language has many benefits such as: 

• Learning a language is great training for your brain.
• Language skills can open new doors for travel, work and communicating with others.
• Language learning really does support literacy! 
• Indonesian is very accessible – it uses the same alphabet as English and there are no tones.
• Indonesian is a form of Malay so you can communicate with around 250 million people.