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Awareness Raising Collaborations - Culture Night
21 Languages
Action: 3.A.2
3.A.5
3.A.8
337 participants
Overview:
PPLI and the European Commission Representation in Ireland hosted a joint event in Europe House for
Culture Night and to celebrate European Day of Languages. Language taster classes in 21 different languages
were offered at this event.
Main Aims:
•
Make taster classes in a wide variety of languages available through a nationwide event
•
Promote the importance of foreign languages and ensure that there is visibility for languages on Culture
Night
•
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 2004 EU enlargement by offering the languages of the countries
that joined in 2004
•
Host a combined event and bring together Culture Night and the European Day of Languages
Activity:
In 2024, two evening events were held – one in Europe House in Dublin to celebrate Culture Night on Friday
20 September, and an online event for European Day of Languages on Thursday 26 September. On Culture
Night, participants took part in language taster classes in ten languages: Chinese, Czech, German, Japanese,
Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish and Spanish. Participants could pre-register or drop into Europe
House. The event was part of a European Cultural Trail (organised in conjunction with European Union
National Institutes for Culture), and participants could get a stamp on their ‘passport’ at Europe House.
On European Day of Languages, online taster classes were
Comments included:
provided in a further eleven languages - Arabic, Estonian,
“This event was outstanding
French, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Portuguese,
All the instructors, sessions and activities
Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian.
in which I participated were stellar. I felt genuinely
welcome, appreciated and valued, and each instructor
Impact:
•
Languages had visibility on Culture Night,
which is a large-scale event with attendance of
was kind, personable and affable. It was a true honour to attend
each session, with each one furthering my interest in languages,
1.2 million
•
Over 300 people availed of language taster
"Overall event was exceptionally good, and well organised.
Estonian teacher was by far the most interesting
classes over the two evenings
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and I hope to be able to do so again the future.”
Attendees were asked to complete a survey. The
average star rating for the two events was 4.6 out of 5
personality /character - provided insight
into the Estonian people as well as
stars, and 45% of Culture Night attendees reported
feeling inspired to learn a language.
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their language."
