For future polyglots.

Here is a site I'd like to recommend for those of you who are considering learning some more foreign languages. When you have some free time, check it out to find essential information about learning strategies, useful resources, teaching yourself and much more.
 After visiting this HOW TO LEARN ANY LANGUAGE website, let me know what you think about it. Have you changed your mind or have you become more enthusiastic about it?

Combining celebration and learning can be useful!

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What is Your NEXT Language to Study?

❝One language sets you in a corridor for life. 

Two languages open every door along the way.❞

‒Frank Smith

Have you started thinking about studying more foreign languages? Have you chosen one? What factors do you take into consideration when making your choice? Of course, all learners are different, they have individual preferences and specific reasons for studying this or that language.  Are some languages more difficult than other? What does it depend on? What are the hardest and the easiest languages? If you want to know more on this topic, have a look at the infographic HERE

European Day of Languages

Language skills are a necessity and a right for EVERYONE - that is one of the main messages of the European Day of Languages which is celebrated on September, 26.
What is more normal for the human condition - monolingualism or plurilingualism? Why could the value of English decline in a globalised world?
If you want to answer these questions and find much more useful information,
visit the official site of the European Day of Languages
Would you like to find out your
level of language skills? Take this self-evaluation!



Have you changed your mind concerning language learning after our dicussion of the post about English mania?
What other languages
and how many would you like to learn? And why?

WHY DO PEOPLE LEARN ENGLISH?

Watch this short video and try to answer Jay Walker's question: "Is English mania good or bad?" Why do people need a common language? Why has English become so popular? What is YOUR reason for learning English?

Ready to change the World... but don't know how to start?

Here is another kid who wants to be a part of the process transforming the world around us, making it a better place to live. Hope this speech can set an example for those who would like to make improvements in the life of their class, school or community.

9/11

PATRIOT DAY                                       is observed in the United States on September, 11. But this date is remembered by people all over the world. No matter who we are and where we live, we should bare in minds the simple truth that people need cooperation to prevent such tragic events.

Children and Grown-ups should learn from each other

We are so used to the model when kids learn from their parents and teachers. But can adults be taught by kids? Can teenagers show that they care and try to make a difference? Watch this inspirational video and share your impressions. I'm sure you can't be indifferent to these ideas.

INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY

Most of us take  it for granted that we have the right to get education. And it seldom occurs to us that not all people in the world are so lucky.

  International Literacy Day was established by UNESCO in 1965 and was first celebrated on September 8, 1966. 

Why should we care about equal chances for everybody to get free access to education? Why is it so important in the 21st century? Watch the video and learn about the efforts that are made by the world community to promote literacy.

LABOR DAY

On the first Monday in September there is a Federal holiday in the USA - Labor Day. Watch the video and find out more facts about the history of this holiday, the events and personalities that made a great contribution to the movement of the working class. If you watch carefully, you can easily answer the questions:
What was the first state that officially recognized this holiday? When did it happen?