ACT Bilingual Educational Group
Multilingual Picnic
Sunday 7 December 2008 11am-2 pm
Black Mountain Peninsula, off Lady Denman Drive, Acton, ACT
(near the Children’s Playground)
Come and
- Help celebrate our multilingual community and the International Year of Languages
- Talk to parents raising their children to speak more than one language
- Hear some of the many languages spoken in the Canberra region
- Find out more about learning languages
Bring family and friends, your picnic, and something to sit on
ALL WELCOME!
For more details, please email Marina or phone Mandy on 0408 089 235 (mobile)
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November 16th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I write concerning language learning and the International Year of Languages. Hope you don’t mind?
President-elect Obama’s education policy is for everyone to learn a foreign language, but which one should it be?
The British learn French, the Australians study Japanese, and the Americans prefer Spanish.
Yet this leaves Mandarin Chinese out of the equation. The time is well overdue for Esperanto to demand consideration.
Apparently UNESCO will meet in Paris, on 15th December, to acknowlege Esperanto, as a living language, in conjunction with the International Year of Languages
The great thing about Esperanto is that, as a non-national language, it places all ethnic languages on an equal footing and therefore avoids discrimination against minority languages.An interesting video can be seen at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670. A glimpse of the language can be seen at http://www.lernu.net