anna3101 Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 Hello,Do you celebrate or have ever celebrated one of the language-related festive days?I found quite a lot of them browsing UN's site and some other resources on the web.If you know of some other days, please let me know!Here's the list:February, 14 - International Book Giving DayFebruary, 21 - International Mother Language DayMarch, 4 - National Grammar Day in the USAMarch, 20 - International Francophonie DayMarch, 21 - World Poetry DayApril, 20 - Chinese Language DayApril, 23 - World Book and Copyright Day + World English Language DayJune, 6 - Russian Language Day2nd Saturday in September - German Language DaySeptember, 26 - European Day of LanguagesSeptember, 30 - International Translation DayOctober, 9 - Hangul Day in South KoreaOctober, 12 - Spanish Language DayDecember, 18 - World Arabic Language DayPersonally, I've only ever had some "celebration" of a kind for Francophonie Day because French authorities always prepare some interesting contests and events for this day. I also celebrate my very own "holiday" in February - a particular day when, some long time ago when I was a schoolgirl, I decided to seriously study languages and use them in my future work.What about you? Do you have some special days of your own? Do you ever celebrate the ones I've mentioned above?Also, do you have any ideas how one could spend such a day best? I'd like to commemorate some of these days next year and I'm looking for ideas Thank you all in advance. Can't wait to hear your thoughts!Ania linguaholic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrell Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 I didn't even know there were language holidays! I mean I knew that every day is literally a holiday according to Google, but I didn't think that there would be holidays based on languages. Makes me wonder if people do actually celebrate these. World Poetry Day sounds fun though! I'd dig that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
宇崎ちゃん Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 I didn't know of any of these neither.Although I would really like to visit a polyglot event, but they're all far away from me (Berlin, New York, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanda Kaishin Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 Nice list. I might have to take note of these next time around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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