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So, do you see, how few languages we meet in our everyday life? And do you see as well, that as the number of those languges shrinks, there shrinks as well the scope of our knowledge and notions of other cultures, countries, the whole world! But it may be the ground to such things as shovinism, nacism etc,
There are still a lot of ways to get more knowledge of the world. And one of them is Language Festivals!
What is a Language Festival?
LF is a real feast of languages feast of international communication, where all the languages and nations are equal and equally respected.
The main goal of LF is to make the participants tenter the unique world of languages, how them the variety and uniqueness of all the world languages and in such a way to stimulate interest to language learning.
LF-places
As far as we know Language Festivals under various names are held:
in France: Toulouse (1987-2001),Tours (1995-2001)
in Russia: Cheboksari (1996-2001),Ivanovo (1999-2001)
in Finland: Juvaskula (1997)
in Luksembourg: Luxembourg (1998-1999)
in the USA: Illinois (1999)
in Belgium: Brussels
in Ireland: Dublin.
in Sweden: Västerås (2000-2001)
Language Festivals are planned
in Belgium: Antwerpen,
in Russia: Moskva, Sankt-Peterburg,
in the Ukraine: Berdyansk, Odessa.