Michael and Winnie Ward are settled travellers from Tuam Co.Galway, The Irish traveller community is also sometimes known as Rilantu Mincéirí and Shelta is recognised as their language. It’s widely known as Cant but fewer and fewer people within the traveller community speak it. But it hasn’t stopped them giving it a go.

We visited Presentation Primary School in Tralee who recently hosted an international day, to celebrate their multicultural school. A school where 36 languages are spoken by students from around the world!

Language expert Rose Bridle returns to Mothertongues to answer our students' questions about how different languages work!

On this weeks episode of Mother Tongues we are joined by a family who speak the native language of Mauritius - Creole!

On this week's episode of Mother Tongues, we meet Liane and her mother who speak Shona, the official language of Zimbabwe!

On this weeks episode we meet Niko, Mia and their Irish Finnish family who live in Dublin. Listen back to learn Finnish phrases and songs

How are languages invented? Why are there so many alphabets? We return with part 2 of 'Ask an Expert', where we asked linguist Rose Bridle to answer your language questions. Listen back now!

On this weeks episode of Mother Tongues, we meet Laura and her sister Clare - a musical, Brazilian Irish family who love to sing in different languages!

Weekend heritage language schools (also called Saturday schools) are community-based settings where children work on their family language or minority language. On this weeks episodes we meet students, teachers and parents from Swedish, Mandarin, Greek, Dutch and Czech Saturday schools.

This week we meet Neven and his mum Vicky - a Bulgarian-Ukrainian family that live in Ireland. If you would like to learn some Bulgarian phrases, or are interested in learning about life and culture in Bulgaria, listen back to this episode!

Language can sometimes feel like a mystery! Children, in every school we visited for this series of Mothertongues, had their own language questions, so we thought, why not let them ask an expert? We met linguist, Rose Bridle to help us answer their questions

On this week’s episode of Mother Tongues we meet two families who speak Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, which is also spoken in parts of India. Listen back to this episode to learn more about Pakistani and Indian culture including food, wedding celebrations and of course the language!

This week’s episode is for teachers who want to make their classroom a place where language is shared and used easily. Discover how teachers and their students build diversity of language into each and every day

Tagolog is the second most spoken language in the Philippines with about 14 million speaking it there on a daily basis. On this episode we meet Cara and her mum, who speak a mix of Tagolog and English.

Back in Our Mother of Divine Grace and fourth class stack them high but are prepared to see it fall! And everyone learns words along the way.

Roll call! And then the students become the teacher at Ballygall, in a fun take on Simon Says.

In the first in a games miniseries, Fourth Class at Our Mother of Divine Grace, Ballygall show you how anyone can play a fun matching game in the yard.

On this episode of Mother Tongues, we visit St Mary’s Primary School off Dorset Street in Dublin 1. Listen back to discover how students explore language through drama and play, with theatre maker, Mark Ball.

On this week's episode of Mother Tongues, we meet Petra and her Irish-Slovak family. From food and culture, to family and past times, this episode is jam packed with useful phrases and stories of life in Slovakia.

The first day at school is challenging for everyone. But imagine you didn’t share a language with your teacher. We visit two schools; St.Marys Primary School and Our Mother of Divine Grace school, to ask the children who’ve been through it, what advice they have for other kids in the same situation.

The podcast is back! And this year we’ve teamed up with teachers and pupils, as well as families. Two exemplary schools, St Mary’s on Dorset St and Our Mother of Divine Grace in Ballygall, let us spend time seeing what they do to help our listeners find an easier path to sharing their love of a parent language. Plus, a lot more.

The Interactive Museum of Languages for Young Audiences is a touring interactive exhibition for primary school children. Made by artist Tomasz Madajczak for Cruinniú na nÓg 2021 the exhibition enables teachers to help young people learn and apply creative skills and capacities. And it visited Riverview Educate Together.

Mothertongues Festival 2021 is mainly online this year, celebrating language and culture in all its forms. So we thought we’d join in. Dance, comics and computer games, all in the one episode.

Giorgia, Gaia and Marica are 3 sisters who speak Italian at home, as well as many other languages. Their mum is an Italian teacher and so she never lets them forget how important language is! Their dad is Irish, but his parents came to Ireland from Italy in the 1960s and set up a Fish and Chip Shop.