001if we have to do it good morning and welcome it is my pleasure uh as mr belinda the principal of brookfield high school to be here for the first ceremony like this of its kind very excited for the spanish and french national honor society induction this morning i was slated in the program to say the pledge of allegiance uh which was already taken care of so i don't have to do that mrs holly suggested i sing the star spangled banner nobody would want that so i'm just i would like to express my gratitude and congratulations the students both the current members and the soon to be inductees will be members very shortly uh and to mrs mack and mr davia for all the work they put in to make this a little more special occasion
002uh then typically was done at an awards ceremony i think this is an important opportunity uh and a great honor and so we're giving it to time in importance today so with that i'll turn it over to dr helen hey good morning my name is dr holly and i'm the curriculum specialist for the world language and english to speakers of other languages departments and welcome to our first french and spanish honor society induction ceremony congratulations to all the inductees and their families and it is with tremendous gratitude that i would like to acknowledge the following people for making this ceremony possible mr melanda mr labia and mrs mack mrs colavito miss whiting mrs dark angelo mrs hofkroff the entire world language team current fhs and shs student members and last and certainly not least our
003families thank you all for your acknowledgement support of the immense value of linguistic and cultural diversity it is now my pleasure to introduce rachel tang who will be the first student leading the student-led induction activities for the french honor society thank you [Applause] so the aim of the brookfield high school chapter of the french honor society shall be to stimulate interest in the study of french to promote high standards of scholarship to reward scholastic achievements to create enthusiasm for and an understanding of francophone cultures and to promote international function and now we'll have samia for the shs [Applause] hi so the mission of brookfield high school spanish honors society is to support the study of the spanish language spread the love for the spanish language and culture to the entire bhs community and help our
004spanish-speaking english learners integrate into our community and next catherine will be saying some french quotes [Applause] okay so i was just supposed to pick a french quote that meant something and just like explain it [Music] the english translation is other things can change us but we start an end like family we all started in the same class together and we've all moved on to fhs and maybe we all end up in different places but we all start together so it's like we're family now julia's going to do the spanish quote [Applause] hi i'll be reading a poem it's called [Music] is thank you [Applause] hi so um this year we have a centaurus survey to all members of fhs and shs society members and 18 percent of our french under society members and so we
005learned that out of the spanish students there are uh sorry guys and students have uh sales and a total of five languages so there are many different languages that our students speak we have french spanish portuguese mandarin asl german and russian so our members responded we've traveled to more than 20 countries including brazil spanish or croatia and italy and outside of the classroom eighty percent of the members plan to use their language at work sixty percent in education ninety percent when traveling um fifty percent 15 in sports um and 15 with friends [Applause] okay so in that same survey students responded that they hope to use their languages in education medicine field of science law government art finance and accounting engineering psychology and social work business and international relations so that what that really is
006showing is the why applicability of this stuff this is not just a niche thing for people to say this could this can change the prospects or someone's future both on a personal level um and also on a level of getting income you know for example there's a lot of organizations if you're going through um you know for international cooperation the pan-american societies is spanish is the legal franc region so we also had a section where people were allowed to talk about their favorite phrase or word language in that translation um so someone said which in englishman's early hands that's uh thanks to cinderella for um you know that's the kind of the the model of the language lab you know as in you know have your hands without your phone or anything like that um
007and then this word that doesn't exist vocabulary it's simplified to missing someone but it encompasses a deep longing for the personal place that's an interesting concept of talking about um how language can also increase your vocabulary not just giving you a synonym but also in creating concepts that you've never had in your culture or language um and the final one in spanish is used to say what a small world but the literal translation is the world is a hatred so although you know that sounds strange to us but you know um it's the same thing you know it's iranian cats and dogs it's just an arbitrary wave that we speak we're all accustomed to as being the dorm and so through studying other cultures and other languages we can expand our horizons of what is
008culturally normal and you know realize how much of our culture is very interesting you know arbitrary titles [Applause] [Music] so hi i'm amy mack and i'm a french teacher and the french honor society advisor and it is my pleasure to pronounce to invite the new members of the fhs app to receive a certificate of associated francaise brookfield [Music] [Applause] alexa gattner alyssa eaton shyly kosaraju olivia montalto rion patel [Applause] bob saraj [Applause] [Music] hello hi everybody i'm mr davida i'm a science teacher here at the high school and uh the advice of the spanish on our society so i want to congratulate congratulations and i want to present you now with your certificate so i'm going to call you up here and present you with a certificate of induction fatima abdullah [Applause] if [Applause] me
009honey foreign now [Music] chloe morales [Applause] adam leaves [Applause] sean [Applause] isabella ortiz [Music] cassidy money gotham [Applause] yes [Applause] thank you very much everybody congratulations to all the new members and thank you for participating in this ceremony [Applause] okay that concludes our honors uh language society's induction ceremony thank you all for coming [Applause]