It is time to remember the annual 26 September European Day of Languages, now into its 10th edition. Language learning is at the heart of the objectives, so become inspired.
The European Day of Languages is arranged jointly by the Council of Europe and the European Union, as well as by a plethora of organisers in the member states.
Why not make a good resolution by starting a daily check of the multilingual aggregator of euroblogs, Bloggingportal.eu, with 853 blogs already listed? A fun and profitable way to learn languages while getting to know Europe from new angles.
Today, 2011 CE could also be your Day of Multilingual Blogging.
Ralf Grahn
Showing posts with label Day of Multilingual Blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Day of Multilingual Blogging. Show all posts
Monday, 26 September 2011
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Blogging in tongues
The bridge between the ‘Biblical’ headline and the Day of Multilingual Blogging is finding the key to a richer life.
Day of Multilingual Blogging
At a deeper level the aims of the Day of Multilingual Blogging are to promote language education and to entice you to learn a foreign language and to explore other cultures. The practical objective is to motivate you to write a blog post this Sunday, 26 September 2010, in another language than your mother tongue.
Facebook
You can find more information on the Facebook page, and there you can link to your blog entry.
Twitter #babel
You can announce your contribution under the Twitter hashtag #babel, or you can post a short message if a full blog post feels too laborious.
Open 26 September 2010
The Day of Multilingual Blogging takes place on the Internet, and it is open to all netizens and languages. In real life, it is arranged by the European Commission representation in the United Kingdom. Therefore, most of the information is in English, so spreading the word in other languages is much appreciated.
Bloggingportal.eu
Bloggingportal.eu, the multilingual aggregator for EU related blogs, has joined the event, as have many bloggers in Europe and beyond. (See the confirmed and possible participants on the Facebook page.)
There are now 668 Euroblogs listed on growing Bloggingportal.eu. You can take a look at the stream of all new posts, or following the entries highlighted by the editors. You can also subscribe to the streams and the newsletters without cost.
By the way, Bloggingportal.eu needs a few more voluntary editors to tag posts according to subjects. Why not keep informed by reading about European affairs, improve your language skills daily and do something useful by joining the team of editors?
Grahnlaw and sister blogs
I have written about the event earlier. My latest Grahnlaw blog post on the subject appeared yesterday: ”Brush up your Shakespeare, Goethe, Molière, Dante, Cervantes or whoever: Day of Multilingual Blogging” (with links to entries with suggestions).
Today I have posted in Finnish on Eurooppaoikeus “Kielillä bloggaamaan” and in Swedish on Grahnblawg “Tungomålsbloggande”, both posts with ‘blogging in tongues’ connotations.
Give it a shot - try blogging in tongues!
Ralf Grahn
P.S. Comments relevant to the topic discussed in each Grahnlaw blog post are most welcome. However, the number of spam comments keeps skyrocketing. This is the sad reason for comment moderation, so it may take a while before your valued comment appears.
It is easier to understand a language than to use it correctly. As Eurobloggers we could and should promote interaction among Europeans across borders and between linguistic communities. We can link to blogs and other sources in foreign languages and share different viewpoints with our readers, perhaps explaining the gist of the arguments.
Another opportunity is to invite comments in different languages, those we are able to read or by using machine translation to understand the essentials.
Grahnlaw has adopted a multilingual comment policy:
I do my best to read comments in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish or Swedish, even if the Grahnlaw blog and my possible replies are in English.
Day of Multilingual Blogging
At a deeper level the aims of the Day of Multilingual Blogging are to promote language education and to entice you to learn a foreign language and to explore other cultures. The practical objective is to motivate you to write a blog post this Sunday, 26 September 2010, in another language than your mother tongue.
You can find more information on the Facebook page, and there you can link to your blog entry.
Twitter #babel
You can announce your contribution under the Twitter hashtag #babel, or you can post a short message if a full blog post feels too laborious.
Open 26 September 2010
The Day of Multilingual Blogging takes place on the Internet, and it is open to all netizens and languages. In real life, it is arranged by the European Commission representation in the United Kingdom. Therefore, most of the information is in English, so spreading the word in other languages is much appreciated.
Bloggingportal.eu
Bloggingportal.eu, the multilingual aggregator for EU related blogs, has joined the event, as have many bloggers in Europe and beyond. (See the confirmed and possible participants on the Facebook page.)
There are now 668 Euroblogs listed on growing Bloggingportal.eu. You can take a look at the stream of all new posts, or following the entries highlighted by the editors. You can also subscribe to the streams and the newsletters without cost.
By the way, Bloggingportal.eu needs a few more voluntary editors to tag posts according to subjects. Why not keep informed by reading about European affairs, improve your language skills daily and do something useful by joining the team of editors?
Grahnlaw and sister blogs
I have written about the event earlier. My latest Grahnlaw blog post on the subject appeared yesterday: ”Brush up your Shakespeare, Goethe, Molière, Dante, Cervantes or whoever: Day of Multilingual Blogging” (with links to entries with suggestions).
Today I have posted in Finnish on Eurooppaoikeus “Kielillä bloggaamaan” and in Swedish on Grahnblawg “Tungomålsbloggande”, both posts with ‘blogging in tongues’ connotations.
Give it a shot - try blogging in tongues!
Ralf Grahn
P.S. Comments relevant to the topic discussed in each Grahnlaw blog post are most welcome. However, the number of spam comments keeps skyrocketing. This is the sad reason for comment moderation, so it may take a while before your valued comment appears.
It is easier to understand a language than to use it correctly. As Eurobloggers we could and should promote interaction among Europeans across borders and between linguistic communities. We can link to blogs and other sources in foreign languages and share different viewpoints with our readers, perhaps explaining the gist of the arguments.
Another opportunity is to invite comments in different languages, those we are able to read or by using machine translation to understand the essentials.
Grahnlaw has adopted a multilingual comment policy:
I do my best to read comments in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish or Swedish, even if the Grahnlaw blog and my possible replies are in English.
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Brush up your Shakespeare, Goethe, Molière, Dante, Cervantes or whoever: Day of Multilingual Blogging
Yes, brush up your Shakespeare, Goethe, Molière, Dante, Cervantes or whoever, or start learning a new language.
Tomorrow, Sunday 26 September 2010, people all over Europe celebrate the European Day of Languages, organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union as an inspiration to language learning.
For bloggers in Europe there is a special event on the Internet tomorrow: the Day of Multilingual Blogging. The blog post behind the link offers some suggestions how you can participate, as well as information about the event, the Facebook page and the Twitter hashtag #babel. Because the event is arranged by the Commission Representation in London, and the information is in English, it is especially important that bloggers spread the word in other languages too.
For a richer life, knock aside a few linguistic or national borders and join the blogging carnival!
Ralf Grahn
Tomorrow, Sunday 26 September 2010, people all over Europe celebrate the European Day of Languages, organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union as an inspiration to language learning.
For bloggers in Europe there is a special event on the Internet tomorrow: the Day of Multilingual Blogging. The blog post behind the link offers some suggestions how you can participate, as well as information about the event, the Facebook page and the Twitter hashtag #babel. Because the event is arranged by the Commission Representation in London, and the information is in English, it is especially important that bloggers spread the word in other languages too.
For a richer life, knock aside a few linguistic or national borders and join the blogging carnival!
Ralf Grahn
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Euroblogs: Online and social media in Spanish
The previous post presented three individual Spanish Euroblogs. We continue with a summary on communication by the EU and by mentioning two different collectives which publish in Spanish.
On blog Bitácora, which is a part of the Spanish version of multilingual Presseurop network, Susana del Río Villar an expert on Team Europa of the EU Commission representation in Spain describes communication challenges from the viewpoint of the EU institutions. In her first post on the subject, she discusses ‘total communication’ in Europe, which is much more than information: Comunicación integral (I) (9 September 2010).
Conceptually the European Parliament made a great leap forward ahead of the 2009 elections, although the debates were hijacked by national politics. Right now the European Commission attempts to project a more centralised and personalised message through its president José Manuel Barroso.
The virtual game Citzalia tries a different tack to engage younger citizens, but it remains to be seen if it succeeds.
What citizens do not seem to realise is that they are present daily in the real world European Parliament, through the directly elected Members of the European Parliament. Tweet your MEP (which starts on 22 September 2010) will certainly connect Europarliamentarians with citizens.
Each Euroblog has its own personality, but they publish, motivate debate and shape European public opinion on a daily basis. The former hierarchies of communication are a thing of the past. They cannot control the responses, but the messages can engage more people. Participation complements representation.
El País and La Comunidad
El País online presents itself as a global newspaper in Spanish. (Remember more than 400 million native Spanish speakers worldwide, second most globally.) It has quality reporting and opinion pieces on its pages for Europe.
La Comunidad of El País houses Euroblog, a collective European blog, where different citizen bloggers (cross)post their entries.
Europa451
Europa451 is a slightly different collective, because it is thebrainchild of five young professional journalists: Fernando Navarro, Jean Sébastien Lefebvre, Julie Gonce, Francesca Barca and Cédric Audinot.
They work together to produce articles in Spanish (Europa451.es), French (Europa451.fr) and Italian (Europa451.it).
By the way, this reminds me of the Day of Multilingual Blogging, 26 September 2010. There are many different ways to participate, but already 131 are attending and 119 may be attending.
Is crossing linguistic and national borders more useful than fun, or vice versa?
Ralf Grahn
On blog Bitácora, which is a part of the Spanish version of multilingual Presseurop network, Susana del Río Villar an expert on Team Europa of the EU Commission representation in Spain describes communication challenges from the viewpoint of the EU institutions. In her first post on the subject, she discusses ‘total communication’ in Europe, which is much more than information: Comunicación integral (I) (9 September 2010).
Conceptually the European Parliament made a great leap forward ahead of the 2009 elections, although the debates were hijacked by national politics. Right now the European Commission attempts to project a more centralised and personalised message through its president José Manuel Barroso.
The virtual game Citzalia tries a different tack to engage younger citizens, but it remains to be seen if it succeeds.
What citizens do not seem to realise is that they are present daily in the real world European Parliament, through the directly elected Members of the European Parliament. Tweet your MEP (which starts on 22 September 2010) will certainly connect Europarliamentarians with citizens.
Each Euroblog has its own personality, but they publish, motivate debate and shape European public opinion on a daily basis. The former hierarchies of communication are a thing of the past. They cannot control the responses, but the messages can engage more people. Participation complements representation.
El País and La Comunidad
El País online presents itself as a global newspaper in Spanish. (Remember more than 400 million native Spanish speakers worldwide, second most globally.) It has quality reporting and opinion pieces on its pages for Europe.
La Comunidad of El País houses Euroblog, a collective European blog, where different citizen bloggers (cross)post their entries.
Europa451
Europa451 is a slightly different collective, because it is thebrainchild of five young professional journalists: Fernando Navarro, Jean Sébastien Lefebvre, Julie Gonce, Francesca Barca and Cédric Audinot.
They work together to produce articles in Spanish (Europa451.es), French (Europa451.fr) and Italian (Europa451.it).
By the way, this reminds me of the Day of Multilingual Blogging, 26 September 2010. There are many different ways to participate, but already 131 are attending and 119 may be attending.
Is crossing linguistic and national borders more useful than fun, or vice versa?
Ralf Grahn
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Bloggers in Europe: Join Day of Multilingual Blogging on 26 September 2010
The previous blog post mentioned the European Day of Languages, which is celebrated each 26 September.
Officially organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union, the purpose of the EDL is to inspire you to learn a foreign language.
Day of Multilingual Blogging
In this context the European Commission in the UK arranges a Day of Multilingual Blogging on 26 September 2010, as described by Antonia Mochan on the Euonym blog (Talking about the EU). The UK Representation is joined by the multilingual aggregator Bloggingportal.eu and individual Eurobloggers.
Languages for and as business
Besides being fun and enriching for your soul, languages are an important business, an advantage when you trade and crucial for landing EU jobs, Antonia Mochan tells her British compatriots. (The same goes for other EU countries.)
Facebook event page
On the event page on Facebook, 122 European bloggers have already signed up to participate in the pan-European Day of Multilingual Blogging, and 106 may be attending.
Join the event.
Here are a few suggestions:
Write a blog post in a foreign language, exchange entries with another blogger, invite a guest blogger, or write about the importance of learning languages and getting to know the history and culture of another country.
Why not tell about your experiences studying abroad (Erasmus) or as an intern?
Do you have other ideas? If so, you can post a comment.
Twitter
The Twitter hashtag is #babel.
Besides tweeting about our blog entries, we can try to write a short message in another language (easier than a full blog post).
Yes, you can …
There are other things you can do as well. You can spread the news through social media and personal contacts, begin preparing your blog posts and start learning a new language.
Bloggingportal.eu
Have you noticed that there is a multilingual blog aggregator, where you can find the posts from blogs related to EU affairs?
It is called Bloggingportal.eu, and it has grown to collect the entries by 662 Euroblogs. You can access the page with all the new posts or the front page selection, subscribe to RSS feeds for all posts or editors’ choices (front page), and subscribe to the daily or weekly newsletter.
Reading foreign language blogs offers you two benefits:
You become better informed about European affairs and you have fun learning languages.
In an integrating Europe, EU affairs become increasingly important, but most EU citizens admit that they should know more about the European Union. The Euroblogosphere covers a growing number of subjects and viewpoints, with increasing variety and depth.
Bloggingportal.eu is a good place to start crossing national and linguistic borders without leaving your desk.
Ralf Grahn
P.S. Comments relevant to the topic discussed in each Grahnlaw blog post are most welcome. However, the number of spam comments has skyrocketed. This is the sad reason for comment moderation, so it may take a while before your valued comment appears.
It is easier to read and understand a language than to use it correctly. As Eurobloggers we could and should promote interaction among Europeans across borders and between linguistic communities. Grahnlaw has adopted a multilingual comment policy:
In addition to Grahnlaw (in English), although in a lazy manner, I practice multilingual blogging by occasional posts on my Finnish blog Eurooppaoikeus and my Swedish blog Grahnblawg.
Officially organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union, the purpose of the EDL is to inspire you to learn a foreign language.
Day of Multilingual Blogging
In this context the European Commission in the UK arranges a Day of Multilingual Blogging on 26 September 2010, as described by Antonia Mochan on the Euonym blog (Talking about the EU). The UK Representation is joined by the multilingual aggregator Bloggingportal.eu and individual Eurobloggers.
Languages for and as business
Besides being fun and enriching for your soul, languages are an important business, an advantage when you trade and crucial for landing EU jobs, Antonia Mochan tells her British compatriots. (The same goes for other EU countries.)
Facebook event page
On the event page on Facebook, 122 European bloggers have already signed up to participate in the pan-European Day of Multilingual Blogging, and 106 may be attending.
Join the event.
Here are a few suggestions:
Write a blog post in a foreign language, exchange entries with another blogger, invite a guest blogger, or write about the importance of learning languages and getting to know the history and culture of another country.
Why not tell about your experiences studying abroad (Erasmus) or as an intern?
Do you have other ideas? If so, you can post a comment.
The Twitter hashtag is #babel.
Besides tweeting about our blog entries, we can try to write a short message in another language (easier than a full blog post).
Yes, you can …
There are other things you can do as well. You can spread the news through social media and personal contacts, begin preparing your blog posts and start learning a new language.
Bloggingportal.eu
Have you noticed that there is a multilingual blog aggregator, where you can find the posts from blogs related to EU affairs?
It is called Bloggingportal.eu, and it has grown to collect the entries by 662 Euroblogs. You can access the page with all the new posts or the front page selection, subscribe to RSS feeds for all posts or editors’ choices (front page), and subscribe to the daily or weekly newsletter.
Reading foreign language blogs offers you two benefits:
You become better informed about European affairs and you have fun learning languages.
In an integrating Europe, EU affairs become increasingly important, but most EU citizens admit that they should know more about the European Union. The Euroblogosphere covers a growing number of subjects and viewpoints, with increasing variety and depth.
Bloggingportal.eu is a good place to start crossing national and linguistic borders without leaving your desk.
Ralf Grahn
P.S. Comments relevant to the topic discussed in each Grahnlaw blog post are most welcome. However, the number of spam comments has skyrocketed. This is the sad reason for comment moderation, so it may take a while before your valued comment appears.
It is easier to read and understand a language than to use it correctly. As Eurobloggers we could and should promote interaction among Europeans across borders and between linguistic communities. Grahnlaw has adopted a multilingual comment policy:
I do my best to read comments in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish or Swedish, even if the Grahnlaw blog and my possible replies are in English.
In addition to Grahnlaw (in English), although in a lazy manner, I practice multilingual blogging by occasional posts on my Finnish blog Eurooppaoikeus and my Swedish blog Grahnblawg.
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