Two hundred pupils in the second year of primary education in Caravaca de la Cruz participated today in the representation of a storyteller in various languages ​​jointly organized by the Presidency and ministries of Education and Universities.
The activity is part of the celebration of the European Day of Languages, which seeks to promote linguistic diversity as a tool for intercultural and celebrate and protect the wealth and linguistic diversity and encourage youngsters to learn other European languages.
The Council of Europe celebrates this festival since 2001 to highlight the importance of language learning and increase multilingualism and intercultural communication and promotion of lifelong learning inside and outside the school for the purpose of studies, exchanges, by professional needs, mobility and leisure.
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The languages ​​of the European Union
The EU has 24 official languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese , Romanian and Swedish.
From the initial four languages ​​1958 (German, French, Italian and Dutch), ie, the languages ​​of the founders (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) member states, their number has gradually increased, as new countries have joined the European Union.
Source: CARM