BEAMING with pride, Maia, Sansa and Natalia hold up their first-ever report cards to the camera.

The young girls are just three of a handful of first-graders who do not have any German language background and yet are enrolled in the German-speaking branch of the German European School Manila (GESM). All of them speak German in school. Otherwise, no one in their purely Filipino households speaks the language at home.

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