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Mother Tongue Other Tongue - 2023

by Crista Hazell
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Introduction
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Express Yourself North East Festival of Languages launched in March 2021 as a virtual celebration of the languages and cultures across the region and our connections to the world. As part of this, Mother Tongue Other Tongue, was reintroduced to enable children and young people aged 7-18 to express and share poetry in their home language (Mother Tongue) or languages they are learning (Other Tongue).

Throughout the following pages you will be able to read some of the beautiful submissions in our Mother Tongue Other Tongue celebration.

We received 106 submissions across 35 languages all of which are spoken across the North East. Each submission will receive a digital certificate.

Well done everyone and thank you for celebrating with us.
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We are again extremely grateful to the teachers, families, teaching assistants, homework clubs, schools, colleges and community groups, who through the first three months of 2023 encouraged learners of all ages to engage in creativity, to be poetic and reflective, to create, or to re-create some of the pieces you will be able to read across the following pages.

For 2023 Mother Tongue Other Tongue has been hosted by International Newcastle and the coordination of this Mother Tongue Other Tongue project has been funded by Association of Language Learning North East in memory of Stella Marsh, who steered the original regional language festivals in the 1980s and 1990s.

We would like to extend our thanks to the Routes into Languages team at Manchester Metropolitan University who allowed us develop a version of their Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition for the Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages, and also the staff and students at the Learning Resource Centre at Newcastle University who have read and reviewed each and every piece.

Crista Hazell
MTOT Project Coordinator
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