Learn to say 'Hello' in 50 languages

Happy International Mother Language Day!

International Mother Language Day was started ‘to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism’, in February 2000. 18 years later, it is a chance to celebrate your own language and culture, as well as other languages and cultures.

The aim of International Mother Language Day is to encourage all the languages in the world to be kept alive and taught and the cultures from which the languages have come from to be understood and embraced.

Languages in the world

Languages are very important for society, because they allow people to communicate and express themselves.

In the world, it is thought that there are currently 6909 living languages, which is maybe not an exact number because some ‘linguists sometimes disagree what are distinct languages and what are dialects of the same language.’

Only a few hundred languages are taught in the educational system and to the public, with even less of those languages used in the digital world. As a result, it is thought that more than 50% of the 6909 languages will no longer exist in a few generations. 

Ways to celebrate International Mother Language Day

• Come and learn English at one of our English schools, either in London, Eastbourne or Dublin! 
• Learn a new word in a different language
• Teach someone in your class a new word in your own language
• Ask someone who speaks a different language how to pronounce a word correctly
  
  

Or why not celebrate today by learning how to say hello in a different language?