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Conclusions of the latest general assembly of the civil society platform
Multilingualism is essential to go further on European Integration This is one of the main conclusions of the latest general assembly of the civil society platform to promote multilingualism held in Brussels on June 29th 2012. The civil society platform for the promotion of multilingualism held its latest General Assembly with a renewed spirit to continue its efforts to promote multilingualism in Europe as one of the key elements to foster European Integration and contributing to the promotion of intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding, cultural diversity, but also mobility, employment and economic growth in Europe. The meeting was chaired by Uwe Mohr, President of the Platform, and Belen Bernaldo de Quiros, Head of the Unit of Multilingualism at the DG EAC of the European Commission. They both highlighted the strategic developments in multilingualism policy and the Council conclusions on language competences to enhance mobility.
5 - 6 October 2012: LLLC 2012
Learner Language, Learner Corpora - LLLC 2012 - an international conference addressing learner language and language corpora, University of Oulu, Finland
22 - 24 August 2012: 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium
Theme: Language and the City, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
17-19 August 2012: Urban Language Seminar 10
The seminar is organised by the network on Industrialization, Language Contact and Identity Formation in China and Europe (ILCI), Utrecht, the Netherlands
New blog:learn Aragonese
"Mal de Lenguas. Recursos para aprender aragónes". The goal of the blog is to teach short lessons of Aragonese, an endangered language mainly spoken in the northern valleys of Aragon. The blog is written in Spanish and is one of the few resources available on the Net to learn some Aragonese.
Welsh: a statistical overview of the Welsh language (February 2012)
The Welsh Language Board has published a report which looks at a wide range of statistics relating to the Welsh language, concentrating on the number and percentage of Welsh speakers, their literacy skills and the active use they make of the language. The report, which has been written by Hywel M. Jones, is the most comprehensive statistical overview of the Welsh language to date. To view the report, please click on the link below.
For the first time in the history of the Internet, non-Latin characters are being used for top-level domains
