>The European Day of Languages (EDL) was first celebrated in 2001 during the European Year of Languages. 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 people in the Council’s member states and elsewhere organise or take part in activities to promote linguistic diversity and the ability to speak other languages.
>The general aim is to draw attention to Europe’s rich linguistic and cultural diversity, which has to be encouraged and maintained, but also to extend the range of languages that people learn throughout their lives in order to develop their plurilingual skills and reinforce intercultural understanding. EDL is an opportunity to celebrate all of Europe’s languages, including those that are less widely spoken and the languages of migrants.
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>The European Day of Languages (EDL) was first celebrated in 2001 during the European Year of Languages. 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 people in the Council’s member states and elsewhere organise or take part in activities to promote linguistic diversity and the ability to speak other languages.
>The general aim is to draw attention to Europe’s rich linguistic and cultural diversity, which has to be encouraged and maintained, but also to extend the range of languages that people learn throughout their lives in order to develop their plurilingual skills and reinforce intercultural understanding. EDL is an opportunity to celebrate all of Europe’s languages, including those that are less widely spoken and the languages of migrants.
[source](https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/26-september-european-day-of-languages)
That infinite bond is the English language. 🎩🧐
EU Day of Languages. I don’t see non EU flags on the poster.
I don’t see arab in there.
Nice that they’ve included Côte d’Ivoire
Here is the reality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_speakers_in_Europe
Feliç dia dels idiomes!
Feliz día de los idiomas!
Happy language day!
What’s the Belgian flag doing there? 🙂
Written in English and yet no English/British being flag present, hmm.
Felicidades del Día Europeo de las Lenguas
Soy Vietnamita y hablo inglés, también yo he aprendido español durante 3 años, y me encanta el idioma
Germans go : syncro plez
So other Balkan nations aren’t Europe? No more kebabs for you guys.