The Day has a wide variety of aims that we could summarize as follows:
# Increasing plurilingualism and intercultural understanding.
# Promoting -preserving and fostering- the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe.
# Encouraging lifelong language learning in and out of school for all kind of puposes (study, professional, mobility and pleasure.
The European Day of Languages is addressed to all citizens, but I think that we, as teachers, have to feel especially concerned about the Day and its message.
Let's all spread the slogan in our schools:
Celebrating linguistic diversity,
plurilingualism, lifelong language learning
plurilingualism, lifelong language learning
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I hope that the "European Day of Languages" will encourage many people to learn a new language. Especially in the United Kingdom where the interest in learning languages seems to be declining.
You may know that four schools in Britain have introduced Esperanto, the neutral international language, in order to test its propaedeutic values?
The pilot project is being monitored by the University of Manchester, and I believe the project deserves academic appraisal.
An interesting video can be seen at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670
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