Excalibur – Sydney Ewert
“Growing up in a monolingual family within a monolingual community, I wasn’t offered many opportunities to learn another language. My school curriculum required French, however, these classes mainly consisted of colouring — in upper years, class outcomes were the same for grades 10 to 12. Despite my monolingual upbringing, many people across the globe speak more than one language. The Washington Post explains that at least half of the global population speaks more than one language.” (more)