{"id":403,"date":"2009-09-26T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=403"},"modified":"2009-09-27T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T13:13:24","slug":"european-day-of-languages-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/26\/european-day-of-languages-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"European Day of Languages 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EuropeanFirst celebrated in 2001, the European Day of Languages<\/a> has grown to encompass a whole week of events! <\/p>\n

The first EDL was organised jointly by the Council of Europe<\/a> and the European Union<\/a>, who chose 26th September as the designated day. The aims of the day are:<\/p>\n

To alert the general public to the importance of language learning
\nTo promote linguistic and cultural diversity and increase intercultural understanding
\nTo encourage lifelong learning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watch<\/a> Pedro Chavez from the European Commission talking about the day.<\/p>\n

I recently posted<\/a> about the proposed idea to adopt Latin as the official language of the European Union, but as I concluded then, the EU is committed to multilingualism<\/a>, so it\u2019s unlikely to happen. Europe is incredibly diverse, with around 225 indigenous languages as well as non-European languages such as Arabic, Hindi and Chinese.<\/p>\n

So, get involved and become one of the many Europeans who are multilingual! Try here<\/a> to find out what activities are happening near you \u2013 there are events all over Europe. And if you can\u2019t make it to any of them, try some of these<\/a> online activities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First celebrated in 2001, the European Day of Languages has grown to encompass a whole week of events! The first EDL was organised jointly by the Council of Europe and the European Union, who chose 26th September as the designated day. The aims of the day are: To alert the general public to the importance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,100,3,35,247,40,90],"tags":[249,250,248,222,99,123,25,251,225],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-culture","category-english","category-events","category-hindi","category-language-acquisition","category-mandarin","tag-council-of-europe","tag-european-commission","tag-european-day-of-languages","tag-european-union","tag-indigenous-languages","tag-language-learning","tag-languages","tag-linguistic-diversity","tag-multilingualism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}