2025-09-20 –, Space 2
A third of London's population is foreign-born. The children of immigrants often learn English as an additional language. It can be challenging for non-native speakers to practice English spelling with their children. This talk will show how Python can support them in effectively practising British English spelling.
This talk will illustrate how my 8-year-old daughter and I used Python to:
1. Identify the words listed in her weekly spelling assignment given by the teacher on a piece of paper;
2. Use publically available data to convert those words to British pronunciation;
3. Make the audio available for her to practice for her spelling test.
4. How did this help in her tests
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Tatiana is a Principal Software Engineer at Astronomer and builds open-source tools to improve Apache Airflow. Since graduating in Computer Engineering at Unicamp, Brazil, she has worked on multiple projects and contributed to various open-source projects. Before working at Astronomer, she worked for the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, Globo, Education First, and the BBC.
Amanda is an 8-year-old in Year 3 at the Anglo-Portuguese School of London. She has supported her mum since she was less than one year old in conferences in Brazil, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. She loves cycling, music and maths.