Les objectifs en matière d'apprentissage des langues
L'Europe se caractérise par sa diversité culturelle et linguistique. Les citoyens européens sont de plus en plus amenés à échanger, travailler et vivre ensemble, et doivent être en mesure de communiquer. Développer les compétences linguistiques de chacun apparaît de plus en plus comme une nécessité.
La Commission européenne encourage la diversité linguistique, contribue à l'amélioration de la qualité de l'enseignement des langues au sein des différents systèmes éducatifs et crée pour les citoyens européens un environnement favorable à l'apprentissage des langues.
Consulter le site Europa de la Commission européenne sur les langues en Europe, la politique des langues, l'enseignement et l'apprentissage des langues.
    Les textes de référence
    Les sites pour apprendre les langues
    L'intercompréhension entre les langues
Le Label européen des langues
Ce label fait partie des programmes transversaux mis en place par la Commission européenne dans le cadre de la promotion de l'apprentissage des langues et de la diversité linguistique dans les Etats membres.
Un appel à propositions est lancé chaque année.
Un des critères de sélection des candidatures est le caractère transférable des projets: "les initiatives doivent représenter une source potentielle d'inspiration pour d'autres groupes ou personnes dans des pays et des contextes différents. Elles doivent être adaptables à l'apprentissage d'autres langues ou à un apprentissage linguistique par des groupes d'âges différents".
Pour tout savoir sur le label et les organismes lauréats.
La radio pour écouter les langues et les parler!
Radio France Internationale a conçu « Mission Europe » comme un feuilleton radiophonique et multimédia pour apprendre les langues et les cultures. Par la voix de la radio, ce projet européen Lingua 1 propose une méthode d’apprentissage originale et interactive, propice à l’immersion dans un bain culturel et linguistique authentique.
Le multilinguisme d'après Leonard Orban, commissaire européen
Leonard Orban, membre roumain de la Commission européenne, a reçu en octobre 2006, du président José manuel Barroso, le portefeuille du multilinguisme. Rencontre avec le Commissaire qui fut le négociateur de la Roumanie pour son entrée dans l’Union européenne.
Οι στόχοι της εκμάθησης γλωσσών
Η Ευρώπη χαρακτηρίζεται από την πολιτιστική και γλωσσική πολυμορφία της. Οι ευρωπαίοι πολίτες έχουν όλο και περισσότερο καλούνται να μοιραστείτε, να εργαστούν και να ζήσουν μαζί, και πρέπει να είναι σε θέση να επικοινωνήσει. Ανάπτυξη των γλωσσικών δεξιοτήτων του καθενός φαίνεται περισσότερο ως μια αναγκαιότητα. Περισσότερα...

By Anne Merritt. The English language is closely related to many Germanic and Romance dialects, so when it comes to language study English speakers aren’t starting from scratch. Anne Merritt lists the 10 easiest to pick up.
We English speakers have a bad reputation in the world of language. According to a European Commission survey in 2012, 61 per cent of British respondents could not speak a second language. However, with growing foreign economies and more global communication than ever before, languages are becoming a crucial skill for professionals.
Ten easiest languages for native English speakers to learn.
The English language is closely related to many Germanic and Romance dialects, so when it comes to language study English speakers aren’t starting from scratch. Anne Merritt lists the 10 easiest to pick up.
Afrikaans
Like English, Afrikaans is in the West Germanic language family. Unlike English, its structure won’t make your head spin. A great feature of Afrikaans, especially for grammar-phobes, is its logical and non-inflective structure. Unlike English, there is no verb conjugation (swim, swam, swum). Unlike Romance languages, there is no gender (un homme, une femme in French)...
French
We can thank William the Conqueror for excellent, colour, identity, and about 8000 other French-derived English words left over from the Norman occupation. Linguists estimate that French has influenced up to a third of the modern English language, from the language of the courts in the 11th century to modern terms like je ne sais quoi, après-ski, and bourgeois...
Spanish
For language learners, a great feature of Spanish is its shallow orthographic depth – that is, in most cases, words are written as pronounced. This means that reading and writing in Spanish is a straightforward task...
Dutch
Another West Germanic cousin of the English language, Dutch is both structurally and syntactically familiar for English speakers. In terms of pronunciation and vocabulary, it parallels English in many ways, such as groen (green) or de oude man (the old man)...
Norwegian
This North Germanic language has consistent pronunciation and, for English speakers, some pretty breezy grammar. Norwegian and English have very similar syntax and word order. Verbs are an especially simple feature, with no conjugation according to number or person. The rules of conjugation are particularly straightforward, with a simple –e suffix for past tense, and –s for passive verbs...
Portuguese
Portuguese is grammatically similar to other Romance languages. One attractively simple feature is its interrogative form, which is expressed by intonation alone, not through rearranging phrases. We’re leaving now can become a question just by raising one’s voice at the end (“We’re leaving now?”) which is a natural linguistic habit of English speakers anyway. In Brazilian Portuguese, questions can also be posed through one catchall question tag: não é?
Swedish
Another Germanic language, Swedish shares many cognate words with English, such as konferens (conference), midnatt (midnight), and telefon (telephone). The syntax is also familiar to English speakers, with a Subject-Verb-Object structure, and verb conjugations which follow the same patterns and rules as in English grammar...
Italian
The most romantic of Romance language, Italian has a Latin-rooted vocabulary which allows for many Italian/English cognates, including foresta (forest), calendario (calendar), and ambizioso (ambitious)...
Esperanto
Esperanto advocate Leo Tolstoy claimed to have learned it in four hours. Most linguists class it among the easiest languages to learn, especially for Indo-European language speakers...
Frisian
This language is native to Friesland in the Netherlands, and is spoken by fewer than half a million people. Still, it is English’s closest sibling, uniquely connected in the tiny linguistic category of North Sea Germanic languages. The two parted ways, so to speak, when Old English and Old Frisian started evolving independently around the 8th century... Read more...

Overview: Growth of English-taught programmes and courses in East Asia, ACA Newsletter guest article by Prof. Futao Huang, Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan.
There has seen a rapid increase in the numbers of English-taught programmes and courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels in China, Japan and South Korea in the past decade. Rationales and motivations driving the emergence and development of English-taught programmes and courses vary considerably among the three countries, but it is generally acknowledged that economic globalisation and internationalisation of higher education are common factors facilitating the internationalisation of university curriculum, including the development of English-taught programmes and courses.
Besides, in the case of East Asia, the decisive role of national governments should not be overlooked. For example, a document issued by the Ministry of Education of P. R. China in 2001 indicates that in the three years that followed, the percentage of courses taught in English among all the courses in the leading universities should go up from 5% to 10%, especially in such areas as Biology, Information Science, New Materials, International Trade, Law, and at the undergraduate level. At a policy level, though later than China and Korea, in 2008, Japan’s Government also launched the Global 30 programme as one of initiatives aiming to triple the number of foreign students by 2020. In order to achieve the goal, 13 universities, including 7 national and 6 private, were selected to play a central role in implementing the programme. These Global 30 universities were required to provide at least two English-taught degree programmes and accept more international students. Similar to China, since early 2000s, the South Korean Government has allocated additional budget for colleges and universities to increase the provision of English-medium teaching through various national programmes or projects, e.g., BK 21 project. Read more...