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Cima Schools, 236 students are foreigners. Notices on the site also in Chinese and Arabic

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The manager Liviana Da Re: «Many families do not understand Italian well, it is a welcoming gesture. We try to make everyone feel at ease, even parents often find it difficult to communicate “

CONEGLIANO. At the school of multiculturalism and integration with the site in Chinese and Arabic. The novelty comes from the comprehensive 2 Cima institute which has activated the institutional site by expanding the possibilities of navigating in different languages, in addition to Italian and “classic” English. And alongside the French, Chinese and Arabic appeared.

“We could choose 4 languages ​​in addition to Italian and considering the real and potential users we opted, in addition to English, for French, Chinese and Arabic – says the school director of the institute, Liviana Da Re.

“A lot of energy, even internal, is spent to understand each other, it seemed a good thing to be able to facilitate the retrieval of information even for those parents who struggle with Italian and English. It is also a welcoming gesture, to make those parents of foreign origin feel at ease ».

Among the 1078 pupils of the 2 Cima comprehensive school, made up of the La Nostra Famiglia and Zandonai preschools, the primary schools La Nostra Famiglia, Maset di Scomigo, San Francesco, Mazzini, Dante Alighieri and Kennedy and the first grade Cima secondary school, 236 are of foreign origin.

NATIONALITIES’

Among the most numerous nationalities, the Chinese one with 32 pupils, then the Romanian one with 24, the Macedonian one with 21, the Ukrainian and the Albanian one with 19 students in both cases, the Moldovan one with 18, the Moroccan one with 17, followed, with 10 children each, from Senegalese, Filipino and Ghanaian.

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“There are several parents who do not speak Italian well and therefore a lot of energy, also on the part of the administrative staff, as well as by the interested parties themselves, are spent on the level of understanding – adds the principal Da Re – some standard organizational aspects can be conveyed. through the website and there was the possibility of adding four languages ​​».

“In addition to English, we thought that French could also be useful for people from African countries. With the Chinese obviously the difficulties are immense, parents often have to be accompanied by another adult or perhaps by one of the older children. The same goes for the Arabic language. We have instead noticed that parents who come from Eastern countries already speak a little Italian ».

On the website www.icconegliano2cima. edu. it is thus active the drop-down menu that allows you to choose the navigation language. “Obviously the process is not completed, it will be necessary to take further steps – underlines the manager – all the attached documentation is still in Italian and it will therefore be necessary to make progress in this too”.

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