Mother Tongue Other Tongue Competition 2018

This exciting multilingual poetry project celebrates linguistic and cultural diversity through creative writing, and showcases the many languages which are spoken and learned by young people in school and at home.

This year, schools, colleges and universities from across Scotland submitted over 400 entries!

Congratulations to EMILY MCINALLY in S3 who was awarded the winning Other Tongue poem in the S2-S3 category!

Below is Emily's poem in French (with its English translation) and a message from Emily, explaining why she wrote this piece. Enjoy!