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| Huliganov Octoglot Senior Member Poland huliganov.tvRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5356 days ago 91 posts - 304 votes  Speaks: English*, Polish, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Esperanto, Czech Studies: Romanian, Turkish, Mandarin, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 1 of 2 21 February 2011 at 11:57am | IP Logged |
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Yes, indeedy, people! It's that time of year again, that comes around once a year, that special day for celebrating multilingualism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Language_D ay So how will you be celebrating this today? I'll probably be going to the Tandem Evening in Warsaw http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168340029880268 This has been a UNESCO event since 1999. but Bengali people have celebrated it since the 1950s, since 21/2/1952 to be precise, the day when some students in Bangladesh were shot for protesting that Bangla, and not Urdu, should be the language of the then East Pakistan. Four years later, the Bengali Language movement won. It has now become a day in which we celebrate multilingualism in communities, and polyglots get asked to get up on stage and recite poems from memory in 15 different languages, and that. What will you be doing to celebrate our multilinguists' special day? Edited by Huliganov on 21 February 2011 at 11:59am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 2 22 February 2011 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
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I'm going to whip out my Spanish grammar book!
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