William visits Estonia’s Freedom School for Ukrainians

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Prince William visits Estonia’s Freedom School, a project launched three years ago for Ukrainian children fleeing war. The school, which serves over 500 students, teaches 40% of its curriculum in Ukrainian and 60% in Estonian.  Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00SOUND OF FOOTBALL

00:04What's good to see you again.

00:06Olga.

00:07Nice to meet you.

00:08Nice to meet you.

00:09You're welcome.

00:10We haven't seen you in a while.

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01:57I was hearing that the Estonian and Ukrainian language is very different, not the same at

02:16all.

02:48Let's go.

02:51Relax, relax, relax, relax, relax.

02:59It's done.

03:01Hit number three.

03:02Eliminated.

03:04Hallelujah.

03:09Nice.

03:10Let's go.

03:13That's it.

03:17Hallelujah.

03:25Hello.

03:26Hello.

03:28Good quality, a little basketball downstairs.

03:31Now it's Ukrainian language.

03:32Okay.

03:33So let me introduce, this is Yulia Zaleta.

03:36A lot of subjects of Ukrainian language, but also we have one more main language in our

03:42school, it is Estonian language.

03:44And actually lots of subjects we have in Estonian language in order to learn this language.

03:51Lots of lessons of English, even speaking club with native speakers.

04:05What was that?

04:07The best.

04:08The best.

04:09The best.

04:10The best.

04:11The best.

04:12Yeah.

04:13The best.

04:14Maybe you can like...

04:15We write the same in Ukrainian language, but they have different meanings.

04:18So actually these three words are difficult even for us.

04:22Okay.

04:23Yeah.

04:24So that would mean three different things.

04:25So it means medical, and what does it mean here?

04:28It's like healthy.

04:30For example, plants are healthy.

04:33Herbs.

04:34Herbs.

04:35This one is about continue learning our native language.

04:40And the school gave us lots of new opportunities of how to live in a new country, how to adapt.

04:49Yeah, so we have very active school life here.

04:54I'm sure.

04:55Has it been difficult settling in here over the years?

04:58Have you found it hard knowing what's going on at home?

05:02Very good.

05:03It's looking forward to the future in a positive way, isn't it?

05:07It's very good.

05:08Even Ukrainians are better in the UK like that.

05:10They're very resilient and very strong about things.

05:13You don't mind if I pop it over?

05:15Yeah.

05:16Okay.

05:17Yeah, go for it.

05:19So this is made by our students in our school.

05:22Yeah.

05:23On the lessons of NCOT.

05:25So I think that you can make it for yourself.

05:28My daughter will try and probably post it later.

05:31Thank you very much.

05:32I like the Ukrainian colors.

05:34Hello.

05:35Thank you very much. I like the Ukrainian colours, so I do. Thank you.

05:42Hello, teachers.

05:43Teachers, hello.

05:44I'm afraid I'm doing your professional disservice by trying to speak Ukrainian in the studio.

06:02We exchange our experience and we support our children altogether, so it's really a good experience for all of us, I'm sure.

06:10So, the main point was to make Ukrainian students correlate with us.

06:17What sort of conversations are you having with the students now?

06:22It's a very difficult conversation because he saw that it's very difficult.

06:33Some of my students, they sat in the basement and they felt very scared.

06:53I'm sorry.

06:54Don't do it, please don't.

06:55I'm very nervous.

06:56I've got all the language people in mind, so it's no problem.

06:58I more study Estonian language and sometimes in my head it's like mixed from Estonian and English, Ukrainian, Russian.

07:10Have you noticed a lot of them come out of their shells since they've been here?

07:13Have they blocked you, some of the students have blocked them since they've come here?

07:17Absolutely, yes. And how I can tell is that they helped me.

07:21Learning math in your native language is hard enough.

07:25Trying to learn math as a Ukrainian in Estonia must be quite tricky, isn't it?

07:29Yes. Well, luckily math is universal, so I get some help from actually math, but again, the vocabulary is there, so we can't miss that.

07:40It's very nice to chat to you.

07:43Thank you very much.

07:44It's very good to talk to you.

07:47Thank you very much.

07:50Estonian language, I'll remember it.

07:52I'll remember it as well.

07:53I'll find more Ukrainian as well.

07:54Thank you very much.

07:55Thank you very much.

07:56Bye-bye.

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