Video Reflective Response Paper

00:00 - [Voiceover] Major funding for Speaking in Tongues

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00:32 - (speaks in foreign language)

00:42 - It's about being a good world citizen.

00:46 See what's going on everywhere else within America

00:49 and then even outside of America.

00:52 - (speaks in foreign language)

01:11 - (speaks foreign language)

01:14 - I can speak maybe 10 words of Chinese

01:17 so I really didn't feel qualified to pass on the language

01:20 and I knew by the time they had kids,

01:22 it would be pretty much lost.

01:26 - (speaks in foreign language)

01:29 - It's a way out and also a way in.

01:32 This will introduce him to more things.

01:34 They'll have more options.

01:36 (calm music)

01:41 (speaking in foreign languages)

02:08 - If they don't learn how to read or write

02:10 or even speak English properly,

02:12 they'll never be able to get a good job

02:14 and they'll never be able to go to college,

02:16 and that's not good for our society.

02:18 - For Americans to understand each other

02:20 and to get over the kind of prejudices

02:21 that human beings naturally have,

02:23 We have to be able to understand each other very well.

02:25 We can't do that if we speak several languages.

02:29 ♫ Hey, I can't read that sign out there

02:31 ♫ Please tell what's it saying

02:34 ♫ We have to have subtitles

02:36 ♫ In five languages these days

02:39 ♫ Now we don't ask too much to share

02:41 ♫ This land of liberties

02:44 ♫ But if it's not too much to ask

02:46 ♫ Could you please speak English

02:49 ♫ English is my language

02:50 ♫ It's the language of this land

02:53 ♫ And every time it's posted here

02:56 ♫ I should understand

02:58 ♫ I do not live in China, Mexico, no foreign place

03:03 ♫ And English is the language ♫

03:05 - [Dr. Ling-chi] I think America is a great place.

03:12 You know, you have Chinese Food To Go.

03:15 Spanish explanation of all sorts in there

03:18 and then a Vietnamese Mexican sandwich place.

03:22 There's no country that has more linguistic assets

03:29 but we seem to take pride in being monolingual.

03:32 And we even try to amend our constitutions

03:35 to make sure that we remain monolingual,

03:39 when the rest of the world under globalization,

03:41 everybody is learning second and third languages

03:44 while we are essentially shooting at our own feet.

03:51 It is a national question.

03:55 What does it mean to be an educated person

03:58 in America today?

04:01 (children talking)

04:10 - No, this is not us.

04:13 - [Voiceover] Hey, Skyler, say I love you.

04:17 - (speaks in foreign language)

05:51 (calm music)

06:01 - All right, so group number one,

06:04 we're gonna perform up here.

06:07 - (speaks in foreign language)

06:12 - (speaks in foreign language)

06:15 - (speaks in foreign language)

06:19 - [Voiceover] Can you teach to me or something

06:21 because maybe he wants to learn something?

06:23 - How do you say hello in Mandarin?

06:25 - [Children] Ni hao.

06:27 - What is it?

06:28 - Ni hao.

06:30 - [Man] Xiexie. - [Durrell] Xiexie.

06:33 - [Voiceover] Look over here Durrell.

06:35 Right, oh, right here.

06:36 Good.

06:37 Okay, one, two, three.

06:39 Look right here, don't look away.

06:41 - (speaks in foreign language)

07:11 (speaks in foreign language)

07:29 - [Ms. Chang] Everything is state adopted curriculum

07:31 that we have to cover

07:32 in the same standards and everything.

07:36 Except we can use Chinese as a tool

07:37 to introduce all the concept

07:38 and to teach other subjects

07:40 instead of teaching Chinese as a language art only.

07:47 I only speak Chinese to my own class

07:49 so my kids only associate me with one language only.

07:52 Because if they know I can speak English

07:54 then they will always talk to me in English

07:56 instead of wanting to speak to me in Chinese.

08:01 But sometimes I'll be talking to my peers

08:03 and my kids, their entire class,

08:05 their mission to catch me and speak English.

08:08 They try to teach me how to speak English.

08:10 They say, "Miss Chang, can you say hi?"

08:12 And I go, "Hi."

08:14 And they were like, "Oh, you speak English!"

08:31 The biggest concern amongst the parents

08:33 is that if they're learning Chinese

08:36 they're compromising English.

08:38 The thing is the kids are learning

08:40 beyond our expectations.

08:48 I think it taps into areas of the brain

08:51 that usually aren't working at this young age.

08:54 - (speaks in foreign language)

08:56 - [Angelica] That brings to do extra work

08:58 and go the extra mile.

09:01 This definitely translates into

09:02 higher academic

09:04 and it works for all my kids.

09:06 The ones that speak English at home

09:08 and the ones that speak Chinese, Spanish

09:10 or whatever language they have in school.

09:12 - (speaks in foreign language)

09:16 - (speaks in foreign language)

09:33 - [Man] Durrell, can you come on up

09:34 and write the word ant for me?

09:42 (lively music)

10:12 (speaking in foreign language)

10:18 - [Man] (speaking foreign language)

10:19 Okay, one, two, smile.

10:22 (speaks in foreign language)

10:25 There you go, thank you.

10:28 (slow tempo music)

10:36 - [Julian] I've been studying in Chinese Immersion program

10:39 for nine years.

10:43 Probably the understanding started to set in

10:45 halfway through first grade.

10:47 We got our Chinese names.

10:50 We started to actually converse in Chinese in the class.

10:54 We took all our math classes up to seventh grade

10:58 wherein Chinese and science,

11:00 they taught us some Chinese up to fifth grade.

11:03 - Orange juice for you guys?

11:05 We needed constant reassurance from

11:07 you know, the early teachers and administrators

11:10 that we wouldn't have to help him with homework

11:13 or you know, there would be problems at home

11:15 because we couldn't speak it.

11:17 - Julian came home one day and he said,

11:20 "Mom, I'm Chinese, aren't I?" (laughs)

11:23 And I didn't quite know how to respond to that.

11:25 I didn't want to burst his bubble

11:26 and say that he wasn't Chinese.

11:28 But, you know, I thought that was really great

11:30 that he thought he was part of this

11:32 and he didn't sort of see himself as any different

11:34 than any of the other children there

11:36 who are obviously Chinese.

11:38 - (speaks in foreign language)

11:41 - [Julian] It's fun to just be part of the language,

11:43 be part of the culture.

11:46 I personally want to go to China.

11:48 I'm definitely looking forward to just go there

11:51 and see if my language skills are,

11:53 you know, worth a hood.

11:56 - [Woman] Your nose forward just a little bit, sit back.

11:59 There you go, Jason.

12:01 Look at the top circle, smile!

12:04 Okay, say yes.

12:05 - Yes.

12:06 - [Woman] Thank you.

12:07 (lively music)

12:17 - [Jason] I think I'm a typical normal kid.

12:20 My family speaks Spanish

12:22 but I can speak two languages.

12:25 I like rock, the Beatles, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple.

12:30 (children talking)

12:37 (bell rings)

12:41 (lively music)

13:27 - [Esthela] I think his Spanish is getting a little weaker.

13:31 He tends to be speaking more and more English

13:33 and that's concerning me because I asked him,

13:36 "Jason, what language do you speak at home?"

13:37 He said Spanish.

13:39 I said, "So, why are you always speaking English

13:40 "in the classroom now?"

13:44 - No.

13:45 I'm just joking.

13:46 - [Esthela] I think part of it's a social thing.

13:47 As kids get stronger and stronger in English

13:50 their social alliances and ties sometimes change.

13:54 If Jason did not attend this kind of school

13:57 he would definitely lose the Spanish.

13:59 All of his writing and reading

14:00 in Spanish skills would be gone definitely.

14:04 - (speaks in foreign language)

14:10 - [Esthela] You guys all have to participate.

14:13 Okay.

14:17 - In the Wood River Valley

14:19 which is in Southern Eastern Idaho,

14:21 we have 700 Latino students.

14:24 And that percentage has gone up 30%

14:27 in the last 10 years.

14:28 - In Milwaukee we have monk students,

14:30 we have Laotian students,

14:32 we have Chinese students,

14:34 we have students from Somalia

14:36 and we have students from Serbia

14:38 and that's probably--

14:39 - In Boston our eight majority languages are

14:41 Spanish Portuguese, Chinese, Vietnamese--

14:45 - In Central Texas our--

14:47 (speaking simultaneously)

14:56 - Have five languages in Illinois.

14:58 (uptempo music)

15:20 - Houston is our largest research site.

15:23 It's the sixth largest urban school system in the country.

15:27 The red line is the kids whose parents said,

15:29 "No special program for my child.

15:32 "I don't want my kid to be in (mumbles).

15:34 "I don't want my kid to be in ESL.

15:35 "I want him to be in the main stream

15:37 "where they can learn English as fast as possible."

15:40 Most of these kids are gone by seventh or eighth grade.

15:43 This line, biggest dropouts of any we've ever seen

15:46 in any program at all.

15:49 (bell rings)

15:57 - Thank you Grandma.

16:06 - [Voiceover] One, two, smile.

16:08 (speaks in foreign language)

16:14 Thank you.

16:16 (traditional music)

16:23 - [Voiceover] Look at the audience.

16:31 - [Kelly] There's 30 kids in my class

16:35 and about 20 of them are Asian.

16:41 Most of the Asian kids like me

16:43 don't speak Chinese at home.

16:48 - (speaking in foreign language)

17:20 - [Kelly] I had to translate it a little bit

17:21 because she taught us part of it using English words.

17:27 She taught us like circumference

17:29 and the area and pi

17:33 then she would make sure that

17:35 we said pi right in Cantonese

17:37 and not like the eating kind of pie.

17:43 - (speaks in foreign language)

17:46 - (speaks in foreign language)

18:18 - [Kelly] I think my parents wouldn't be able to do

18:21 Math in Cantonese.

18:26 - What does this one say?

18:28 - (speaks in foreign language)

18:30 - Well, this one?

18:32 - Like more like--

18:33 - Something about peace right?

18:34 - Yeah, almost like wherever you are there'll be peace.

18:37 - I think a lot of times as I was growing up

18:39 I had a hard time communicating with my grandmother

18:41 because of the language barrier.

18:43 I mean she can't speak two words of English

18:45 and I can speak maybe 10 words of Chinese.

18:47 So, when I see her it's very simplistic

18:50 in terms of my conversation with her.

18:51 You know, "Hi grandma, how's it going?"

18:53 And you know, "Here's your grand kids,"

18:55 and that's about it.

18:56 But I can't really talk to her about

18:57 what it was like when she was young growing up

19:00 or what her experience was.

19:02 - Put these ones up mommy.

19:04 - Yeah, I forgot how I hung them last year.

19:07 Do you remember?

19:09 - Maybe hang them right over here.

19:10 - Okay, but you got to--

19:11 - Today, I can't read or write Chinese.

19:14 I know some of the characters on the mahjong tiles

19:17 because I used to watch my parents play.

19:22 But those are probably the only characters I know.

19:31 I grew up in the early '60s in Redwood City.

19:34 I would not speak Chinese

19:36 in front of my friends back then.

19:40 My grandmother would go in the backyard

19:42 and she would scream out our names in Chinese

19:45 and tell us it's time to go home.

19:48 I would feel embarrassed.

19:50 I thought, you know, why was I...

19:52 Why do I have to be Asian

19:53 or why do I have to be Chinese?

19:55 Why can't I just fit right in?

19:57 (calm music)

21:15 (uptempo music)

21:25 - [Jason] I like school

21:27 but sometimes teachers are annoying

21:31 but I got lucky

21:33 because my parents couldn't go to school.

21:36 (uptempo music)

22:06 - [Jose] They speak Spanish with us all the time.

22:36 - Good day, fellow Americans.

22:38 One of the greatest dangers we face

22:40 in keeping our republic unified

22:45 is the fact that America is rapidly becoming

22:49 a Tower of Babel.

22:51 Don't you remember the bible?

22:53 When they were building this big, big tower.

22:56 - [Voiceover] Five years after 9/11,

22:58 only 33 of 12,000 FBI agents

23:02 have even limited proficiency in Arabic.

23:06 - After the September 11 happened,

23:08 we realized that the FBI was totally paralyzed,

23:12 unable to understand all the communication in Arabic.

23:18 And then now we're saying that,

23:19 "Oh my goodness, you know,

23:20 "the Chinese are really competing with us

23:22 "in the economic sphere and what should we do?"

23:26 - [Voiceover] I pledge allegiance.

23:28 - To the flag of the United States of America

23:31 and to the Republic which it stands,

23:34 one nation, one God, indivisible,

23:38 with liberty and justice for all.

23:41 - Item 610-24A1,

23:44 preparing all students for a multilingual,

23:47 multicultural world.

23:49 - The resolution before you offers an opportunity

23:52 for the district to do something visionary and bold.

23:55 We now know that children acquire second

23:58 and even third language more effectively at an early age

24:02 and most importantly their knowledge of a second language

24:05 also stimulates and enhances their learning

24:09 of other subjects as well.

24:12 This is why the resolution calls for

24:14 a sweeping new approach

24:16 to teaching and learning foreign languages

24:18 (mumbles) well

24:19 and giving parents the choice of a different language.

24:23 - Good evening, commissioners.

24:24 The State Department has designated Chinese

24:26 as a critical language yet within the US,

24:28 only 24,000 high school students study Mandarin,

24:31 a language spoken by over 1.3 billion people worldwide.

24:35 - My work takes me to Asia, to Russia

24:37 and to places around the world.

24:39 And I have to say nothing to speak

24:41 anything but English (mumbles) not very well

24:43 is a real limitation in doing business.

24:45 So we have to recognize the global workforce

24:47 that we're preparing the kids to this phase then.

24:49 I think it's critical from an education perspective.

24:52 (uptempo music)

25:02 - [Woman] This is the performance point.

25:03 - Have this answered question.

25:05 - Learn a little more from a Spanish program.

25:08 - And have tongue for the past five years.

25:11 - Through immersion.

25:12 - And be instrumental.

25:13 - (speaking in foreign language)

26:06 - Yes sir.

26:07 - In the cafeteria there was great art on the wall.

26:10 Everyone from Latin America.

26:13 Do they learn about American heroes?

26:16 I didn't see Martin Luther King for example

26:18 on the cafeteria wall.

26:20 Is that a part of...

26:23 Are the teachers aware

26:27 that they're in the US?

26:32 - I have children attend the Chinese immersion school.

26:37 With any program or any school

26:39 there are challenges

26:40 and for us, we're no different.

26:44 Being African American kids in a Chinese culture

26:46 there are some adjustments

26:47 and situations that one have to deal with.

26:51 (uptempo music)

26:57 - (speaks in foreign language)

27:27 (uptempo music)

27:32 - Those fifth graders are scoring

27:36 at or above the level of their peers

27:38 on a state-wide test.

27:40 And they're able to demonstrate that in both languages.

27:43 - My god, then where do we get the teachers?

27:45 And where do we get the money for the teachers

27:47 that speak the languages

27:48 that would be able to provide all the services?

27:50 (speaking simultaneously)

27:56 (singing Happy Birthday in foreign language)

28:14 (cheering)

28:16 - Who wants chocolate?

28:17 - Me!

28:19 - You want a strawberry one now?

28:20 - Strawberry!

28:20 - Okay, sure.

28:21 Whatever he enjoys, you know,

28:23 I want to help him enjoy, you know?

28:25 He does show that he enjoys his class

28:28 and he does love school.

28:38 - (speaks in foreign language)

28:41 - Do you need your paper with your song on it?

28:43 Do you need to practice more?

28:44 No.

28:45 You know all the words English and Spanish

28:47 and Chinese as well?

28:51 There, it doesn't feel like it's gonna, oh-oh.

28:53 It doesn't feel like it's gonna come off.

28:56 No?

29:02 I don't know why there aren't any

29:04 children from the neighborhood in the program.

29:09 No one in his class is from the neighborhood.

29:13 No one.

29:20 - (speaks in foreign language)

29:22 - [Children] English!

29:24 - (speaks in foreign language)

29:29 - [Ijnanya] I think people are a little skeptical

29:30 about how it works.

29:34 People say that you know,

29:35 if their children are learning 90% in Chinese

29:39 how are they gonna learn English?

29:41 Who's gonna talk to them?

29:43 But I'd rather Durrell

29:45 who have something different in his background

29:47 rather than just regular kindergarten.

29:51 (sings in foreign language)

30:09 - This afternoon these students from China

30:11 will be coming and we're hosting a barbeque, you know?

30:14 Get together, you know?

30:16 Make sure everybody knows each other.

30:20 We're gonna host a Chinese student.

30:23 I wrote him the letter in Chinese.

30:27 A little bit about my family and my house

30:29 and what to bring and what to expect.

30:33 His name is Yang Bo.

30:36 He likes basketball definitely,

30:37 he plays the piano.

30:42 It's all here.

30:43 He also likes watching movies.

30:58 - My buddy's name is Fiona.

30:59 Her Chinese name is Wang Tsing Yang.

31:02 She likes to play the flute

31:03 and she likes to play basketball and different sports.

31:07 - I don't really know much.

31:09 His name is Sylvester, he's from Beijing.

31:15 Apparently his interests are math, science and computers.

31:19 - They're pretty interested about the sibling thing

31:23 because they're not used to that.

31:24 - They're interested about having siblings

31:26 because you can't have a sibling in China.

31:28 So, I guess they're really excited to

31:31 be able to be with two kids at once

31:33 like that are related.

31:39 (crowd clapping)

31:52 - [Julian] Julian Enis. - [Yang Bo] Hi.

31:55 - [Julian] Nice to me you.

31:57 (upbeat Chinese music)

32:29 - Who's your favorite NBA star?

32:32 - NBA.

32:33 - Yeah.

32:35 - Hard to say.

32:37 - Why?

32:39 My favorite is Kobe.

32:41 - [Julian] Kobe Bryant? - [Yang Bo] Yeah.

32:42 - [Julian] I think like Baron Davis

32:44 over across the bay with the Warriors.

32:48 - How about Michael Jordan? Retired.

32:50 - Great player though.

32:52 Still a great player.

32:54 - A legend.

33:03 - So can we play together?

33:05 - I guess so.

33:06 - Thanks.

33:17 (screaming)

33:21 - [Voiceover] Dude, that guy's just like a

33:22 go with rhythm or something.

33:26 (laughs)

33:36 - Wearing this then my cousin's gonna wear this dress.

33:44 Then I also have all these other kinds

33:47 but since it's the new year I bought a new one

33:50 that I'm gonna wear.

33:53 I like it because it's like what

33:57 Chinese people would wear I guess.

34:00 And I like how they look.

34:13 Good.

34:14 - Can you make it?

34:16 - Kung hei fat choi.

34:21 - [Man] At least nine. - [Girl] Yeah, at least 10.

34:23 - [Man] 10 seconds I think.

34:25 - It's a point.

34:26 - Look at them get set.

34:28 - We learned Chinese but being that we live in an

34:32 English speaking area,

34:35 we just started speaking English.

34:38 - So we're not bilingual.

34:39 We can understand a little bit.

34:42 I used to be fluent when I was little

34:44 but I kind of lost it.

34:47 Especially since my grandma only speaks more Chinese

34:50 like I can't talk to her like Kelly can.

34:54 There's kind of like barrier of communication.

34:57 Like I only can tell her certain things.

35:01 It's kind of a shame that I don't know and they do

35:05 and they get to see her a lot more than I do.

35:11 - I mean, we talked about having children

35:13 and where we want our kids to go.

35:14 We wouldn't mind them being in a school that learns.

35:16 Just because our kids are gonna be biracial

35:19 and I never learned Chinese and I wish I did.

35:22 - This country, so much is offered to the children

35:27 to speak other languages.

35:30 We don't have to teach it in school.

35:33 We really don't.

35:35 It's taken away from their other curriculum.

35:39 In America we should speak in English.

35:42 This is America.

35:43 I don't think I should be paying my taxes

35:46 for someone else to learn the language.

35:49 My son's giving me the evil eye.

35:52 - Yeah, you've got a global economy.

35:53 You're able to travel to different countries.

35:57 You got to be able to communicate with someone

35:59 in their language.

36:00 Not everyone's gonna be how we were.

36:02 Starting here, staying here,

36:04 not having much contact outside of what we have.

36:09 They've got to have more tools.

36:11 - My mom was born here, my dad was born in Italy

36:13 so we only spoke to her in Italian

36:16 but we had to speak to him in English.

36:19 And when he died he could read and write English

36:21 without ever going to school.

36:26 - [Dr. Ling-chi] I think it's really kind of ironic

36:28 that in America in the past,

36:31 we try everything that we could possibly do

36:33 through our educational process

36:36 to push the linguistic ability

36:38 of the children of different language background

36:41 as they enter into the school district.

36:44 And then succeeded in time imparting

36:47 whether it be Chinese, Spanish or French

36:49 or whatever language.

36:50 And then when they get to college level

36:53 then we spend millions in college education

36:55 to try to teach some college students

36:58 the same languages that we succeeded

37:00 imparting out of these children.

37:03 Imagine if we are able to capture these assets

37:06 and retain them and then use them,

37:08 you know, America is really linguistically

37:10 the richest country in the world.

37:14 ♫ Figaro, figaro, figaro

37:18 ♫ Figaro, figaro, figaro, figaro

37:20 ♫ Figaro, figaro, figaro, figaro, figaro

37:22 ♫ Figaro, figaro, figaro, figaro ♫

37:27 - Ah Basilio!

37:29 You've come to give Priscella her music lesson.

37:32 - I'm in no mood for a lesson.

37:34 (lively piano music)

37:40 - [Jason] I learned English in Spanish Immersion program.

37:45 (crowd screaming)

37:49 I watch TV shows and look up things in English

37:53 but if I have to do a report for my Spanish teacher

37:56 I go to Spanish websites.

37:59 ♫ Here you will find me waiting ♫

38:02 You rotten scoundrels, you traitors!

38:05 (lively music)

38:38 - (speaks in foreign language)

38:48 - [Esthela] People don't mind

38:49 if kids like Jason learn Spanish

38:51 as long as they're not learning it at school.

38:54 If Jason learns Spanish only at home

38:56 he wouldn't have the academic Spanish.

38:58 He wouldn't be able to read or write

39:00 Spanish in the professional level.

39:02 But if he keeps up both Spanish and English

39:04 Jason will have that same higher level of learning

39:07 in both languages.

39:18 - (speaks in foreign language)

39:41 - We were at Nordstrom Rack downtown.

39:43 Durrell came to me and he let me know that

39:46 there were some people in the store

39:48 and they all spoke Chinese

39:49 but no one would speak to him.

39:51 And he initiated the conversation in Chinese.

39:54 What color was the jacket she had?

39:56 - [Durrell] Black.

39:57 - How do you say black in Chinese?

39:58 - Hei se.

40:00 - [Ijnanya] He asked her what was her favorite color.

40:02 And how do you say what's your favorite color?

40:05 - (speaks in foreign language)

40:07 - [Ijnanya] And what did she say to you?

40:09 - Lan se.

40:10 - [Ijnanya] Which is?

40:11 - [Durrell] Blue. - [Ijnanya] Blue.

40:12 She told Durrell that he can be the Ambassador of China

40:15 because he spoke Chinese

40:16 better than her grand kids.

40:17 None of her grand kids spoke Chinese

40:19 and she was really proud of him

40:20 and to continue to go to school

40:22 and one day he can be rich. (laughs)

40:24 - [Durrell] I'm already rich.

40:26 - You are already rich.

40:29 Yeah.

40:30 (calm music)

40:42 - [Voiceover] English is part of our national identity,

40:45 it's part of our blood.

40:47 - [Voiceover] Instead of worrying about

40:48 whether immigrants can learn English,

40:50 they'll learn English.

40:51 You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.

40:55 - [Voiceover] A vote late yesterday in the senate

40:57 to make English the national language of the United States

41:01 touched off passionate debate on capital ill

41:04 and across this country...

41:07 (speaking in foreign language)

41:39 (traditional Chinese music)

41:49 (speaks in foreign language)

41:54 (traditional Chinese music)

42:26 (traditional Chinese music)

42:55 (crowd cheering)

43:18 (children screaming)

43:22 - [Kelly] My Chinese name is Wong Hang Yi

43:26 and it means a lucky child.

43:30 My grandma gave it to me.

43:37 - (speaks in foreign language)

43:43 (speaks in foreign language)

44:00 (traditional Chinese music)

44:19 - (speaks in foreign language)

44:23 (lively traditional music)

44:46 - She came up with it herself.

44:59 It's kind of harder to say stuff in Chinese

45:02 because I usually speak English

45:04 and some things I don't know how to say in Chinese

45:07 and she doesn't understand me.

45:09 But I also like speaking to her in Chinese

45:11 because I can practice my language with her.

45:16 And she always tells me if I say something wrong

45:19 so she can help me fix it.

45:58 (crowd clapping)

46:01 (Chinese pop music)

47:36 - [Julian] What's this?

47:37 - [Yang Bo] Dragon fish.

47:39 - [Julian] Dragon fish?

47:43 - [Voiceover] But you could say you did it once.

47:45 You could take a slight nibble, that would be all.

47:49 - [Voiceover] Yes, eat it.

47:50 - [Voiceover] Only half of it.

47:51 - You eat the tail?

47:53 - [Voiceover] Yes.

47:54 - [Voiceover] You eat the whole thing.

47:54 - Oh my god.

47:55 - [Voiceover] Just hurry up. - [Julian] What am I doing?

47:57 - Come on, come on, here.

47:58 - [Voiceover] Wait, wait.

47:59 There he goes.

48:01 - [Voiceover] See, it's good.

48:05 - It's really good.

48:15 - Now let's welcome (mumbles) to our school

48:19 to give us hip-hop dancing.

48:21 (hip-hop music)

48:41 - [Julian] We took a bicycle tour of the Hutongs.

48:44 They're the little alleys between these

48:47 like courtyard houses called quadrangles.

48:50 Some of them date back a couple thousand years.

48:52 It's amazing.

48:53 - It's pretty cool.

48:54 - Yeah, I told you about the history and stuff.

48:57 This was Guilin.

48:58 - Guilin's an awesome mountain.

49:00 - It's the you know, the...

49:04 How do you say it?

49:05 Almost like typical Chinese like...

49:10 (mumbles)

49:11 What do you say for that?

49:12 - (mumbles) like.

49:14 - Landscape, that's right.

49:15 It's a landscape.

49:18 - [Boy in red] Does it make you sad that you left

49:21 and you had so much fun?

49:23 - [Julian] Yeah, I wanted to stay longer.

49:26 (Chinese pop music)

49:37 Chinese has become one of those irreversible things

49:41 that is engrained in your head, your personality.

49:46 It definitely has become a part of who I am.

50:06 - Okay.

50:31 - Good evening and welcome

50:32 to our fifth grade graduation ceremony.

50:35 As you know, Buena Vista has a

50:37 Spanish English Immersion Program.

50:39 It teaches kids like me who usually speaks Spanish at home

50:43 how to speak perfect English,

50:45 and it also teaches kids who usually speak English at home

50:49 how to speak perfect Spanish.

50:59 - I would like to thank Ms. Margaret

51:01 for encouraging me to be a strong girl

51:03 and also helping me like more sports.

51:12 - I would like to thank Mr. William Shakespeare

51:16 for inspiring us in English.

51:18 (crowd clapping)

51:31 - Juliet Padilla.

51:32 (crowd clapping)

51:36 Jason Patino.

51:38 (crowd clapping)

51:42 Eduardo Sanchez.

51:46 (lively Spanish music)

52:15 (lighthearted music)

52:27 - Marcelo come on.

52:35 Marcelo!

52:37 Marcelo!

52:38 Where's Marcelo?

52:42 - (speaks in foreign language)

53:23 - [Jose] Everywhere he went is not gonna be hard for him.

53:28 It is gonna be easy for him to communicate.

53:31 - I can't. Wait.

53:32 What happened to the tickets?

53:33 I don't want to buy tickets.

53:37 - (speaks in foreign language)

53:43 - (speaks in foreign language)

53:58 - (speaks in foreign language)

54:06 (lighthearted music)

54:13 - (speaks in foreign language)

54:21 (lighthearted music)

54:35 - Now we're voting one resolution (mumbles).

54:37 - [Woman] Dr. Kelly. - [Voiceover] Aye.

54:39 - [Woman] Ms. Lipson. - [Voiceover] Aye.

54:40 - [Woman] Mr. Mur. - [Voiceover] Yes.

54:41 - [Woman] Mr. Sanchez. - [Voiceover] Yes.

54:42 - [Woman] Mr Wins. - [Voiceover] Aye.

54:44 - [Woman] (mumbles). - [Voiceover] Aye.

54:45 - [Woman] It's unanimous.

54:47 (lighthearted music)

54:59 - [Voiceover] To learn more about Speaking in Tongues,

55:01 visit ITVS online at itvs.org.

55:06 (lighthearted music)

55:11 (traditional music)

56:08 Major funding for Speaking in Tongues

56:10 was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

56:14 Additional funding was provided by

56:16 the Center for Asian American Media,

56:19 Latino Public Broadcasting,

56:21 the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation,

56:24 the Lawrence Choy Lowe Memorial Fund,

56:27 the Lenore and Howard Klein Foundation,

56:29 Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund,

56:32 the Film Arts Foundation and others.

56:35 A complete list available from ITVS.