22 Languages Spoken at School ; Exclusive Pupils Among Best in the Country Arabic Bengali Bosnian Cantonese Chinese Dutch English French German Hindi Kurdish Mirpuri Punjabi 1 Punjabi 2 Portuguese Pushto Russian Shona Somalian Swahili Sylheti Urdu

Sunday Mercury › June 24, 2007

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IT is the Midland school where pupils are top of the class in foreign languages.

Because a staggering TWENTY-TWO different dialects are spoken by students at St Alban's in Highgate, Birmingham.

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22 Languages Spoken at School ; Exclusive Pupils Among Best in the Country Arabic Bengali Bosnian Cantonese Chinese Dutch English French German Hindi Kurdish Mirpuri Punjabi 1 Punjabi 2 Portuguese Pushto Russian Shona Somalian Swahili Sylheti Urdu

The Church of England school is so multi-cultural that less than a third of pupils now have English as their first language.

Yet speaking in dif...

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