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Don't worry about mistakes, feel free to experiment! The most important thing is to get your message across!
Take every opportunity to talk to foreigners. Remember, language in intself is human communication!
Set realistic goals! As a starting point, look at this self-assessment table to see where you stand on the scale of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Use every opportunity to learn as often and in as many different ways as possible.
Use all the possible tools, if you have to, use your hands and feet to be understood!
Use your downtime on the bus or while queuing - download language learning apps or podcasts to your mobile and use them regularly.
USEFUL TIPS AND INFORMATION
You yourself can work on improveing your language skills! Professional language education
can go hand in hand with independent activities gained outside the classroom. Become an
efficient student!
It's useful to choose a language of a culture you are particularly interested in. It can help you
keeping a strong motivation throughout the learning proces.
Don't worry about your mistakes.
Make learning fun! Try online or mobile play activities!
Practice regularly – store all you have learned in your long-term memory.
Learning goes better if you fill it with personal content and deal with topics in a foreign language that interest you in Hungarian as well! You like music? Download lyrics!
Watch films in original version, with or without subtitles. You can now rewind digital broadcasts so you can listen again to the parts you didn't understand the first time.
15.30 and 17.30
Raffle: win a language course, a language book, a free language test!
14.30
Language miniclasses – try a foreign language or improve your language skills
14.00–17.30
Games, tests, interactive sessions amd more – find us at the stands of cultural institutions
Schedule
September 13, 2024
Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest
1088 Bródy Sándor utca 8.
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EUROPEAN LANGUAGE COCKTAIL BAR
The languages of the Neo-Latin language group (Italian, French, Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese) are derived from the so-called Vulgar Latin, which was the actual spoken language of Rome. This may be the reason why it is usually easier for their native speakers to learn a language of this group, than it is for, let´s say, a native Hungarian speaker.
The largest non-territorial languages are Catalan and Occitan.
Finland has two official languages: Finnish and Swedish.
Maltese mixes elements of Arabic, Italian and English.
The European Day og Languages is being held every year on September 26. Our event aims to direct public attention to the international variety of languages and the importance of language education in the spirit of tolerance and curiosity.
German is the most common mother tongue in the European Union, with approximately 105 million native speakers, or 21% of the EU population.
According to most sources, the Basque language is the oldest spoken language in Europe.
According to one of studies of the European Comission it takes at least 300k language users for a language not to get on a verge of extinction.
Luxembourgish speakers understand each other well with Transylvanian Saxons.
The Bible is the book translated into the most languages. The entire Bible text has been translated into a total of 694 languages. Among the books written in Hungarian, Imre Madách's The Tragedy of Man has been translated into the most languages (40).
According to the estimated data, English is spoken by 48% of EU citizens as their first foreign language, so it is far ahead of German and other languages as the most widely used EU language.
The European Union has 24 official languages. Altogether, this makes 552 language combinations, if you count every single direction of interpretation.
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