The European Day of Languages: 26th September 2006 is a day to celebrate linguistic diversity and the benefits of being able to communicate in another language.  This is the 6th day of its kind and a whole range of events are taking place across Europe in celebration.

From Austria, where they are holding a Fair of Linguistic Diversity in Vienna, to Warsaw in Poland where one school is hosting a language based Eurovision style contest – the whole of Europe is involved.  Answer English is marking the occasion by investigating what the European Day of Languages means to Londoners.
 
We will ask what foreign languages Londoners speak, the importance they place on communicating in another language and what motivates them to use languages other than their mother tongue.  We will be posting up on our Blog the results and putting some footage up of the responses to our questions.  Answer English will also keep a resume of what is going on around Europe to mark this day.

We would be interested to hear about what languages you speak, whether you feel that being able to speak other languages is important, and why & for what purpose you speak the languages you do speak.  Please let us know by Contacting Us we are all ears!  For additional information about The European Day of Languages you may wish to visit www.ecml.at/edl where there is a full list of activities around Europe.