If you plan to be in Poland this September, you may want to swing through Warsaw for a week-long language event that will be taking place from September 24 – 29 at locations around the city.
Here is the announcement as seen on the European Commission website -
EDJ 2012 will be held under the motto “Learn languages! – Be active ” and will run from 24 to 29 September 2012.
‘Be active – learn languages!’ That is the motto for this year’s European Day of Languages in Warsaw. In fact, an entire festival starting on 24 September is organised.
There will be language lessons and language teaching workshops in dozens of languages for teachers. Also on the agenda are an international conference, theatre classes, storytelling, street games in many languages, quizzes and a film festival.
Sports fans will find plenty to interest them. The festival is linked with Euro 2012 for football fans, and the Olympic Games are featured too.
The European Year of Active Ageing is another link that will be highlighted. Learning another language is a wonderful way for seniors to socialise and travel. There is something for everyone in the programme.
The international conference, entitled ‘New Technologies and Social Media in Language Education’ will kick off the festival on 24 September, and the European Language Label Gala Awards will take place during its proceedings.
Cinema lovers can enjoy a week-long festival of films with subtitles, in Greek, Danish or Irish.
For children, there will be story-telling and music classes: ‘Sur le pont d’Avignon — music connects generations’.
Football fans will be able to practise their language and football skills at a workshop entitled: ‘Dribble with the experts — in German’.
Small children and grandparents can try theatre workshops — a great opportunity to learn languages through music and movement.
Japanese, Chinese and Armenian are among the 70 languages in which there will be sample lessons. Foreigners living in Warsaw will be able to check their level in Polish. Sign language too will be showcased. Language teachers can attend methodology workshops at which they can pick up tips to enhance their teaching methods. Need information on European educational programmes? Go to the festival to find out what is available.
Grand contest: Win a free semester of language lessons at one of the language and culture institutes in Warsaw
Enter the contest, in which teams will become ‘travel agents’. To win the game, they will have to make international contacts, organise a trip, help a lost tourist, and overcome all kinds of language barriers and other obstacles.
For more information about the festival, go to the webpage www.edj.waw.pl.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Here is a schedule of highlighted events from the Europejski Dzień Języków 2012 website -
(NOTE: On the top of the page is a drop down list that looks like this - Program na dzien 24 1X 25 1X 26 1X 27 1X 28 1X 29 1X - each of these is a link to detailed events happening on the respective days. If you don’t read Polish, you can highlight the text and put it in too Google Translate.)
EDJ Program 2012
Monday September 24, 2012
Storytelling from different parts of Europe – an event for children
(Bracka Street 5)
Monday September 24, 2012 (9:00 – 18:00)
Conference: “Information and communication technologies and social media for language learning” (University Library)
(Good Street 56/66)
Tuesday September 25, 2012 (9:00 – 14:00)
Demonstration lessons in foreign languages at the University of Warsaw
(Street Cracow Faubourg 26)
Wednesday September 26, 2012 (9:00 – 14:00)
Demonstration lessons in foreign languages in the library book in Ochota stop
(Street Grójecka 42)
Wednesday September 26, 2012 (9:00 – 14:00)
Methodological Workshops for teachers of foreign languages at the Centre for the Development of Education
(Ujazdowskie 28)
Thursday September 27, 2012 (9:00 – 14:00)
Demonstration lessons in foreign languages at Prague Public Library South.
(Street Meissner 5)
Friday September 28, 2012 (Morning hours)
Language theater workshops in Ochota
(report from last year’s workshop)
Saturday September 29, 2012 11:00 – 15:00)
The language of the Powiśle city game
(the ratio of urban EDJ game in 2010)
Monday 24 – Thursday 27 September 2012 (Morning hours)
Screenings of European films in the cinema the Russian Centre of Science and Culture
(Street Belwederska 25)
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