Can knowledge societies afford not to be multilingual?
Linguamón - House of Languages and Maaya, the World Network for Linguistic Diversity, are pleased to announce that the International Symposium on Multilingualism and Cyberspace is to be staged in Barcelona.
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17/09/2009
26 September: European Day of Languages
A day for celebrating linguistic diversity, plurilingualism and lifelong language learning. more ...
22/09/2009
Education amid linguistic diversity: reinforcing students' mother tongues
Linguamón organises the 4th International Day on Best Practices in Managing Multilingualism. more ...
17/09/2009
Linguamón-House of Languages in The Triplets' new magazine
The new monthly publication features a regular section on languages and their worth. more ...
An extremely useful audiovisual teaching resource. Students who have recently arrived in Barcelona explain, in their mother tongue and in Catalan, what has surprised them about the city and its inhabitants.
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Meirion Prys Jones is the Chief Executive of the Welsh Language Board
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02/10/2009
Seminar on Immigration and Linguistic Diversity in Catalonia. Organised by Linguamón-House of Languages and the Catalan Government's Immigration Department. Tarragona, , 5, 9, 16, 23 &30
01/10/2009
Linguamón organises the 4th International Day on Best Practices in Managing Multilingualism. Education amid linguistic diversity: reinforcing students' mother tongues
29/09/2009
International Symposium on Multilingualism in Cyberspace. Organised by Linguamón-House of Languages and the World Network for Linguistic Diversity. September 29 & 30 2009
Festa Means Party is an annual event held as part of a campaign geared to the integration of exchange students attending Catalan universities.The campaign is designed to enable students new to Catalonia to begin to find out about the Catalan culture and includes concerts and cultural and gastronomic activities. The goal is to encourage newly arrived students to learn Catalan and to foster their respect and appreciation for the Catalan culture.
An inter-university introduction to Catalonia's language and culture for students from outside the area in which Catalan is spoken
Institution(s) involved: Platform for the Language (Plataforma per la Llengua - website in Catalan), a civic non-profit institution that promotes the Catalan tongue.
Platform for the Language is assisted in the organisation of the Festa Means Party events by:
the Commissioner for Universities and Research attached to the Government of Catalonia's,
Barcelona University Centre , the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Ramon Llull University, the University of Vic, the University of Girona and the University of Lleida
Bilingual Children's Mother Tongue: Why Is It Important for Education?
A consequence of population mobility is linguistic, cultural, 'racial', and religious diversity within schools.
Did you know that there are no languages which are older than others?
Basque is not the oldest language in Europe. Nor can you say that Hebrew is older than Catalan.