EDL 2015 celebrated in over 47 countries on 5 continents

The 2015 European Day of Languages offered a showcase for a wide variety of creative initiatives around the globe: A huge number of events celebrating languages and language diversity took place on or around 26 September. Depending on your interests (and transport!) it was possible to attend a series of workshops in Belgrade, a language fair in Strumica ("the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"), express language courses on trains between Clermont-Ferrand and Vichy, a sign language event in Belfast, a language festival to promote the multiple home languages of the children in Luxembourg, literary flashmobs in 13 cities of South America or to try out "surviving shopping in a foreign language" in Sofia or "speak dating" in Hong Kong. Migration this year was a frequent theme with many activities focusing on integration and the teaching methods required to rapidly develop basic communicative skills for new arrivals in the language of the host country. More...