Презентация к празднику День Европейских языков

Europe is one of the world's seven continents. The others are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica.
It is the second-smallest continent, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometres. But its population is 731,000,000 people. So Europe is the third-most populous continent after Asia and Africa.

Europe is divided from Asia to its east by the Urals. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean and other bodies of water to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea and connected waterways to the southeast.

There are about 50 states in Europe. Russia is the largest by both area and population (although the country has territory in both Europe and Asia), while the Vatican City is the smallest.

Most of the languages of Europe belong to Indo-European language family. These are divided into a number of branches, including Romance, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Greek, and others. The Uralic languages also have a significant presence in Europe, including the national languages Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian. The Turkic and Mongolic families also have several European members, while the North Caucasian and Kartvelian families are important in the southeastern extremity of geographical Europe. The Basque language of the western Pyrenees is an isolate unrelated to any other group, while Maltese is the only Semitic language in Europe with national language status.
In addition to current languages, there are many languages once used in Europe which are now extinct.

…selebrated on 26 September. It is a day which marks the importance of learning foreign languages.
Since old times people have understood that foreign languages are important for any person. So UNESCO declared the XXI century to be the time for polyglots, and its motto is “Learn foreign languages while you live”.
2001 was declared by the European Council and supported by the European Union to be the World’s Year of Languages, and the 26 of September was chosen as European Day of Languages.

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We celebrate European Day of Languages on the 26th of September.

There are 28 countries in the European Union.

FUN EUROPE QUIZ

FUN EUROPE QUIZ

When do we celebrate European Day of Languages?

26 September

How many countries are there in the European Union?

28 countries

What is the capital of the European Union?

Brussels

How many countries are there in Europe?

43
47
50

What are the official languages of the European Union ?

Can you name the countries of these capitals?

What Flag is it?

What is the official currency of Europe?

How many European languages can you name?

What are the most common languages in Europe?

English
French
German

What is the most widely spoken language in Europe?a) Germanb) Englishc) Italian

English

Do you think it’s difficult to learn languages? Can you be a polyglot?
You see, if you know one foreign language, it will be easier to study the second or the third one as different languages have the same roots. And besides, it’s cool to speak a lot of languages.
By the way, do you know that some famous people are polyglots? For example, a famous actor and sportsman Dolph Lundgren knows 9 foreign languages, including Finnish, Japanese and Russian? A well-known singer and actor Paul Robeson spoke more than 20 languages. Anatoly Ovsyannikov, a Russian journalist, knew 40 foreign languages.

Pope Benedict XVI (1927): The Pope (soon former) mastered six languages: German, Italian, French, Spanish, English and Latin. When he was in Brazil he communicated in Portuguese, but he doesn’t speak fluently. Besides that, he can read in Old Greek and Hebrew and knows some Polish.

If you’re going to rule an empire, then you need to be able to master a language or two. The Queen of the Nile was of Greek descent, and, as well as knowing Greek and Eygptian, could also converse in Aramaic, Ethiopic, Latin, Hebrew, Syriac, Parthian, Trogodyte and Median, which must have come in handy during diplomatic (or not so diplomatic) discussions.

Natalie Portman (1981) – The actress has as native languages English and Hebrew. She studied German, French, and Japanese at university. She doesn’t think she has fluency in the Japanese language.

Dolph Lundgren (1956): the Swedish actor became famous for the movies Rocky IV, Masters of the Universe (as He-Man) and the Punisher. He speaks Swedish, German, French, Spanish and English and knows a little bit of Japanese and Italian.

Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993): The actress and model world-famous for the movies My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany’s spoke Spanish, German, Dutch, French, English and Italian.

Colombian songstress Shakira is a native Spanish speaker who is fluent in English and Por-tuguese, as well as some Italian, French, Catalan and Arabic. It has been known that Shaki-ra is interested in world history and frequently studies the history and languages of the countries she visits. She is also determined to teaching her son Milan five languages. Not only can Milan speak some words in Shakira's native Spanish and his dad's Catalan, he is also working on his Russian, German, English, Chinese and French.

Famous russian polyglots

A S Griboedov , the famous Russian diplomat and writer, was a many side personality. He got a profound knowledge in various spheres, learned several foreign languages, became a talented writer and able musician and an outstanding diplomat with instincts of a real politician.

Лев Толстой в совершенстве владел английским, французским и немецким языками, свободно читал на итальянском, польском, чешском и сербском языках. Знал греческий, латинский, украинский, татарский, церковно-славянский, изучал древнееврейский, турецкий, голландский, болгарский и другие языки.

Императрица Екатерина II, кроме родного немецкого и русского, в совершенстве владела еще тремя языками.


Александр Грибоедов с юности владел французским, немецким, английским и итальянским языками, изучал латинский и греческий. Позже овладел персидским, арабским и турецким.

Баснописец Крылов великолепно знал французский, итальянский и немецкий языки. Позднее выучил древнегреческий. Изучал английский язык.