Last week me and my sudents had the chance to talk about the European Day of languages. We explored the following site European Day of Languages and found out some really interesting information about different languages as well as many quite entertaining activities.Since I teach in multicultural class ,some of my students, who come from different countries ,shared with us words and phrases from the country that they themselves or their parents were born.So we learned some Bulgarian ,Albanian ,Russian and German words.
Some students are also learning a second lnguage (besides English,that is),so they shared with the rest of us French ,Italian and even Spanish words. Some of them had also relatives in foreign countries and were able to find words from those countries too. All of my students participated and enjoyed the experience as much as I did.
Although we spent only two hours on this project , I ‘m sure they realised the importance of learning a new language and most of them will do so in the future. They also associated each language with the people and the culture of the countries that every language is spoken.Finally they tried to find differences and similarities between various languages as well as words which are unique in each language.
We laughed a lot trying to pronounce numerous words in different languages and finally decided to create a poster that included projects they created in groups in order to celebrate the European Day of Languages on 26th of September!
Alors voila!
Amazing! I just saw this 🙂
It was the first time I actually devoted one week to the European Day of Languages! The activities were really amusing! I hope I can repeat it next year.