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The European Day of Languages

The European Day of Languages. 10 most popular languages :

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The European Day of Languages

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  1. The European Day of Languages

  2. 10mostpopularlanguages: 1. MandarinChinese - 882 million2. Spanish - 325 million3. English - 312-380 million4. Arabic - 206-422 million5. Hindi - 181 million6. Portuguese - 178 million7. Bengali - 173 million8. Russian - 146 million9. Japanese - 128 million10. German - 96 million

  3. The European Day of Languages is celebrated • annually on 26 September. • 2. It is a Europe-wide celebration of language and • culture involving 47 countries. • 3. It is an initiative organised by the Council of Europe . • 4. It is coordinated in the UK by CILT, the National Centre for Languages . • 5. 2011 is the 10th European Day of Languages. • 6. The first European Day of Languages was held in • the European Year of Languages in 2001. • 7. It has a European website - http://edl.ecml.at/ • 8. It's a celebration of all languages, • not justEuropean ones. • 9. Everyone can get involved! • 10. It’s brilliant fun!

  4. Non-European Union Countries Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, Switzerland

  5. Portugal What countries do these flags belong to? 2 1 3 Belgium Bulgaria 4 Austria

  6. Malta 1 2 Cyprus 3 4 Italy France

  7. Netherlands 1 2 3 Greece Spain Ireland 5 4 Finland

  8. Check your answers

  9. Sort the following Russian words into the correct column referring to the languages they came from: English, French, German, Italian Кроссворд, банк, шляпа, журнал, сквер, лимузин, айсберг, ракета, бумеранг, бандит, бутерброд, одеколон, интернет, фортепиано, волан, шлягер, мемуары, трамвай, газета, фейерверк, суп, джинсы, режиссер, помидор, календарь, спортсмен, галстук.

  10. English: Кроссворд, сквер, бумеранг, интернет, трамвай, джинсы, спортсмен French: Журнал, лимузин, одеколон, волан, мемуары, суп, режиссер German: Шляпа, айсберг, бутерброд, шлягер, фейерверк, календарь, галстук Italian: Банк, ракета, бандит, фортепиано, газета, помидор

  11. Language Quiz • What is the origin of the greeting ‘Ciao’? • Caius, a common Latin name. • It was the call of Venetian gondoliers to avoid hitting other boat in the fog. • From the Venetian phrase ‘sciaovostro’ literally translated as ‘I’m your slave’ or ‘at your service’. • Which is the only European language that always places the family name first and the given name second, e.g. SMITH John rather than John SMITH? • Hungarian • Icelandic • Bulgarian

  12. 3. Which of the following is a Romance language? Romanian Romany Latin 4. Who said ‘A country without a language is a country without a soul’? Victor Hugo PatricPearse Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Which of the statements about the Greek alphabet is true? Unlike the Latin alphabet, its letters never represent numerals. It only contains consonants. It gave rise to the Gothic, Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.

  13. 6. Which language does the word ‘robot’ come from? • Polish • Latin • Czech • To which language does the quotation refer: ‘The language is the instrument of the Empire’? • Spanish • English • German • Which of these dances originates in Poland? • the Polka • the Polonaise • the Polska

  14. Answers to the quiz: C (this Venetian phrase means a polite promise from one to another, much like ‘count on me’ any time.) A (Family names were descriptive phrases used to identify people’s characteristics or their jobs.) A (Romance languages include French, Spanish, Italian & Romanian as they descended from Latin.) B C C (The Czech ‘robota’ literally means hard work.) A (The Spanish used their language as a tool to unify the empire, consolidate political power & spread the Catholic faith.) B (The Polonaise means Polish in French. The Polka is a Czech dance & the Polska is a Nordic folk one.)

  15. Enjoy studying languages and remember: ‘He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  16. Used resourses: http://edl.ecml.at/Home/tabid/1455/language/en-GB/Default.aspx http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/10languages.htm http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/eu.html http://www.google.ru/search http://www.allcountries.org/maps/world_language_maps.html http://classtools.net/widgets/dustbin_2/gQs8Z.htm http://edl.ecml.at/LanguageFun/LanguageQuiz/tabid/1873/language/en-GB/Default.aspx http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/quiz/index_en.htm

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