{"id":28685,"date":"2018-09-20T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=28685"},"modified":"2018-11-15T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T21:36:00","slug":"28685","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=28685","title":{"rendered":"Learning Languages for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students aim to make the most of their time in Graduate Program classes with some students taking the opportunity to give back to their community through volunteering or organising a fundraiser for a community organisation. For Year 10 student Zoe Freeman it was taking on the challenge of learning how to speak German.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28686\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_9975_web-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_9975_web-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_9975_web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_9975_web-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Year 10 student Zoe Freeman with German exchange student Marie-Anne Tran pictured<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learning this language would allow Zoe to communicate better with her family living overseas, aiming to visit them later this year.\u00a0Zoe has been working with German exchange student Marie-Anne during the Thursday Graduate Program sessions over the past few months, taking the opportunity to learn simple phrases and how to say helpful words such as colours and every-day words that are use in conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great opportunity to meet someone new and learn a new skill&#8221; Said Zoe, the experience proving to be very valuable for both students, with German mentor Marie-Anne also taking the time to further develop her English speaking skills during her stay in Wodonga.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was more than happy to share my language and culture and with Zoe&#8221; said Marie-Anne. The girls aim to meet regularly for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students aim to make the most of their time in Graduate Program classes with some students taking the opportunity to give back to their community&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28690,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28685\/revisions\/28690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}