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EU & languages

EU & languages. Elisabetta Gibertini Michela Sgarbi Mirjam Arula Hanna-Liis Karp. 1. Most popular languages in Europe. The Europe Union has 23 official languages.

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EU & languages

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  1. EU & languages Elisabetta Gibertini Michela Sgarbi Mirjam Arula Hanna-Liis Karp 1

  2. Most popular languages in Europe • The Europe Union has 23 official languages. • They are: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish. • The most popular languages are German, French and English • The most spoken language is German. • Europe also has more than 60 indigenous regional and minority languages 2

  3. European Day of Languages • Every year, 26 September is the day we celebrate Europe’s rich linguistic heritage. • The first European day of languages was held in 2001  • Brussels will host International Language Days on 8 and 9 March 2013 at the Square-Brussels Meeting Centre. 3

  4. Lingua show • Lingua Show, one of the biggest international language and education fairs in Europe • This year it takes place in the Czech Republic from 14th to 16th March 2013. • The main theme of this year's Lingua Show is life-long education 4

  5. Communication devices • The most popular is Facebook • Also people use Twitter, Tumblr, Skype etc 5

  6. EU countries • There are 27 countries in EU • EU is an economical and political union • Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany founded the European Coal and Steel Community • Dutch, French, German and Italian were first working and official languages in EU • Estonia joined the EU in 2004 6

  7. Comenius project • Comenius project is European Union educatioanl project • Project was named after John Amos Comenius • The theme of this years Comenius project is Your European Key to the World • In this years Comenius project are Estonia, Italy, Turkey, Finland, Germany and Netherlands • Similar project for University students is Erasmus 7

  8. Jeopardy game • There are 5 categories in which there are 5 questions with different difficulty levels • Contestant chooses 1 question from 1 category • Answer starts with “WHAT IS…” • If the answer is right they get the points for the question, if not they lose the same amount of points • The winner is the person who has the most points in the end • Link to our game: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/eu-languages

  9. Sources • http://ec.europa.eu/languages/languages-of-europe/eu-languages_en.htm • http://ec.europa.eu/languages/languages-of-europe/index_en.htm • http://ec.europa.eu/languages/orphans/european-day-of-languages_en.htm • http://ec.europa.eu/languages/news/20130306_en.htm • http://ec.europa.eu/languages/news/20130305_en.htm • http://Images.google.com • http://Wikipedia.com • http://google.com • http://jeopardylabs.com

  10. Thank you for your attention! 10

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