European Day of Languages in Georgia
By Mariam Chanishvili
Monday, September 16
Since 2012, EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture with 90 member organizations across Europe) has been inviting schoolchildren at the European Day of Languages for celebration.
To celebrate this year, the French Institute of Georgia is inviting students to the French School of the Caucasus (76b Chavchavadze Ave, Vake Park) from 10 am to 4 pm.
The program includes physical and cognitive games and activities presented by funny bus / Fun Bus, Foreign Language Workshops: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Polish, Finnish, Greek, reading and art workshops, quizzes about Europe, karaoke, art therapy workshops, entertainment Quiz "One Word One Flag," etc.
Activities planned for the event include fun contests and games, cognitive or entertaining exercises, music or digital animations. Students have the opportunity to become better acquainted with the cultural and linguistic characteristics of different peoples of Europe and receive prizes at the end of the event.
The European Day of Languages is 26 September, as proclaimed by the Council of Europe on 6 December 2001, at the end of the European Year of Languages, which had been jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union. It aims to encourage language learning across Europe.
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
The overall objectives are to raise awareness of: Europe’s rich linguistic diversity, which must be preserved and enhanced, the need to diversify the range of languages people learn (to include less widely used languages), which results in plurilingualism, the need for people to develop some degree of proficiency in two languages or more to be able to play their full part in democratic citizenship in Europe.
