European Day of Languages 20 Years : Celebrate at school or at home ! New resources & activities

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European Day of Languages

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European Day of Languages 2021: 20 years celebrating linguistic and cultural diversity.

Throughout Europe, 800 million Europeans are represented in the Council of Europe's 47 member states and all are encouraged to discover more languages at any age, as part of or alongside their studies. This stems from the Council of Europe’s conviction that linguistic diversity is a tool for achieving greater intercultural understanding and a key element in the rich cultural heritage of our continent. Therefore, the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, promotes plurilingualism in the whole of Europe. 

At the Council of Europe’s initiative, the European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on 26 September - together with the European Commission.

European Day of Languages
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“The European Day of Languages gives us an opportunity to value and promote all languages and cultures in Europe. This year we are putting a special focus on inclusive language education, which supports all learners to reach their potential and play an active part in diverse and democratic societies”

It is estimated that there are over 225 indigenous languages in Europe, without even including languages which have arrived on the continent through migration.

Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić

The specific aims of the EDL are to:

• raise awareness of the importance of language learning in order to increase plurilinguism and intercultural understanding;

• promote the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe;

• encourage lifelong language learning in and out of school.

European Day of Languages

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• Education:

A dedicated website, which is available in 41 languages (some partly), provides details of the hundreds of events taking place in celebration of the Day, as well as a wide variety of resources and activities for everyone interested in languages and language learning.

New! Activities :

 https://edl.ecml.at/Portals/

Poster :  "20 things you might not know about Europe's languages"

In 10 languages. 

https://edl.ecml.at/Activities/

• App: The secret agent’s language challenges app

The challenges and quizzes contained within this app encourage learners – future international agents – to take advantage of the plentiful opportunities available to practice or learn more about a language beyond a classroom context. 

By passing through a series of levels you can rise from a lowly agent in training to become a master secret agent. 

Students can compete with friends and schoolmates in achieving challenges, identifying countries and languages and completing quizzes. 

The challenges go from the easy, such as, “count from 1-10 in 3 different languages within one minute” to ones that are a bit more demanding, “together with a friend, write the words to a song/rap in a foreign language.

Join EDL's 20th Anniversary Great Bake-Off 

This year, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its inauguration, the European Centre for Modern Languages invites all of you to participate in our EDL's Great Bake-Off.

The goal is to collect birthday recipes from different parts of the world and in different languages to then include the 20 most original (and tasty!) desserts in a special 20th-anniversary-edition recipe book. 

If you would like your birthday dessert to be included (after a rigorous selection process!), please read the instructions and get ready to bring out the chef in you!

Submission deadline: 30 September 2021

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Lara's language journey across Europe:

During this short journey, students will discover lots of similarities. European languages largely fall into three main categories: Slavic, Romance and Germanic, the languages within each group have the same roots – however, over centuries they have developed in their own distinct directions. You will also find out about their differences: the variety of alphabets (such as Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian and Georgian), often using artistic scripts; how they deal with creating words for new inventions and their sometimes mysterious origins. All have a unique identity and their own story to tell! 

Download book here

hybrid learning cartoon
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Struggling to find ideas for a ‘socially-distanced’ event for this year’s European Day of Languages? In these uncertain times, it can be challenging to organize events which are both safe and are attractive to a large number of people. 

Here 7 ideas to get the creativity flowing:

Suggestions involving social distance

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Materials:

Posters, flyers, figures, wrist bands, stickers, logos, handbook & so.

Teachers and students can download here and here

screenshot Languages Challenges app

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App: The Secret Agent's Language Challenges app

An app, created specifically for the EDL, encourages users to carry out a series of language challenges, thereby developing further competence and confidence in using different languages.

The app offers a wide range of challenges to keep language learners motivated – in particular during a prolonged period away from the ‘physical’ language classroom. 

The app can easily be used by students/children independently or together with teachers and parents. Lots of fun and in more than 15 languages!

iOS: https://apple.co/3mq7qfz
Android: https://bit.ly/3hFp2QG

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Facts & fun:

"According to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn’t matter in what order letters in a word are written; the only important factor is that the first and last letters should be in the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without any problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole."

• Languages facts
• Language games
• Languages fun

Here the page to learn, gaming and having fun.

Well, if you couldn't include the European Day of Languages into your school curriculum, you can do it next week. 

We are living different times, you are teaching in different times. Difficult times. So, be cool! Teachers can use the activities in different ways and propose them to students in the classroom when they think it will be important.

Be safe! Don't forget your mask and ask your students to use their masks as well. And out of school, always respect the social distance.

We will be all right!

G-Souto

25.09.2020

update 26.09.2024

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European Day of Languages

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"This year's European Day of Languages celebrates innovation in language learning and teaching.  This provides us with the perfect opportunity to highlight the huge value of Europe's cultural diversity."

Thorbjørn Jagland, Council of Europe Secretary General 

The European Day of Languages (EDL) was first celebrated in 2001 during the European Year of Languages. 

EYL 2001

At the end of this campaign the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers decided to make EDL an annual event, to be celebrated each 26 September. 

Every year, millions of teachers and students organise or take part in activities to promote linguistic diversity and the ability to speak other languages.

"By pausing to celebrate the dozens of languages spoken across our communities we can send a powerful message: that Europe is a truly multilingual place where all backgrounds are welcome and where everyone can have an equal voice."

Hundreds of events are organised by schools, universities and cultural establishments to mark the day. 

http://edl.ecml.at/

At the initiative of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, the European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on 26 September

On the occasion of the day, a range of events are organised across Europe: activities for and with children, television and radio programmes, language classes and conferences. 

To coordinate the activities organised at national level, the Council of Europe asks participating countries to nominate National Relay Persons for the day.

European Day of Languages

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Education:

Throughout Europe, 800 million Europeans represented in the Council of Europe's 47 member  states are encouraged to learn more languages, at any age, in and out of school. Being convinced that linguistic diversity is a tool for achieving greater intercultural understanding and a key element in the rich cultural heritage of our continent, the Council of Europe promotes plurilingualism in the whole of Europe.

Studies have been showing that speaking several languages is one of the best exercises your brain can get. See?

On the occasion of the European Day of Languages, a range of events are organised across European schools.

26 September must be about having some fun together in different languages. Everything is permitted to motivate students to learn languages. There are so many languages in Europe!

In order to learn more about language diversity, students can take part in different activities proposed by their teachers or following a school project. 

Tongue Twisters

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• Activities:

Excited? Only some hours left until the European Day of Languages! Are you ready to twist tomorrow? 

Tongue Twisters:

• Portuguese: "Três Tristes Tigres"

• Swedish: ”Father, do sheep have sheep? No, sheep don't have sheep, sheep have lambs”.

From ‘Around the rugged rock, the ragged rascal ran’ to ‘red leather, yellow leather’, one aspect of mastering a language is being able to master its tongue twisters. They are always decidedly odd sentences. 

Invite your students to visit the web site and to inclue a tongue twister.

Play mode:

Play a game and test your knowledge: students may choose a sticker. And they will be asked to answer a Quiz about the language/sticker they have chosen.

They can choose a sticker only once. 

EDL world record attempt

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Participate in the EDL world record attempt!

To add a little extra spice to the European Day of Languages this year, we are aiming to establish a EDL world record.

Encourage your classes or students to create a short video clip based on the phrase:

“I love [a language] because…”.

• The video, using the above phrase, can be:

• Recorded in any language and can be about any language(s). 

• The clips may involve an individual, group or class 

• It should be no longer than 10-20 seconds in length and filmed in landscape format. The more creative the video, the better!

• Do not forget to turn on subtitles.

BE Active! BE Cre@tive!

Closing date : 30 September

Upload school or students videos here

• News 2019: Resources: Schools/ students 

HandBook of Languages Challenges

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This year EDL is inviting everyone to participate in a language challenge around the European Day of Languages! 

The 51 challenges contained within the handbook encourage learners to go a little outside their comfort zone and take advantage of the plentiful opportunities available to practice or learn more about a language beyond a classroom context.

Students can choose easy challenges that don’t involve much time – such as “count from 1-10 in 3 different languages within one minute” to ones that are a bit more demanding “ together with a friend, write the words to a song/rap in a foreign language”. 

There should be something for everyone and you may discover that you actually know more than you think about languages!

Download the HandBook in English here

Which Language It Is?

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Which Language It Is?

We all know this situation: on a bus, in a café, on the street we hear two people talking in a foreign language. And we wonder what language it is. Let's do some training here and next time this happens to you you will easily recognise it!

EDL T-Shirt Contest 2019

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EDL T-Shirt Contest Winner 2019

The winner of the 2019 EDL T-shirt contest is Emilė Žandauskaitė from Vilnius Abraomas Kulvietis Classical Gymnasium/ Lithuania. Congratulations!

EDL T-Shirt Contest 2020:

Send EDL your design/image/graphic and have your layout on the official 2020 EDL T-Shirt!


Resources+

• Sign language game:

Country names in international sign language. Do you know the European country names in international sign language? 

Invite students to learn by selecting and clicking on a country on the map and then test themselves to see how many they can get right!

Whether large or small, don't forget: 

• Have a good idea (an event, party, tournament, breakfast, flashmob at school;

• Organise creative events with your students and promote on the EDL website here ;

• Create promotional texts/flyers and distribute them at the school, at home;

• Tell your school library about the event about the European Day of Languages and ask to make a presentation in different languages with students; 

• Tell your national relay about your events. They may promote your initiative;
• Enter the event into EDL database

Make it happen! 

There are so many activities! Teachers will find some teaching materials here

My Dream Job 2017:

Apply for your dream job in our 2017 European Day of Languages Competition and you could win a trip for your class! Reece Sheridan heard about the competition through Stein Study and made this video with their Erasmus+ intern Patrick Stegar to spread the word.

G-Souto

25.09.2014

updated : 25.09.2019
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