Throughout Europe, 800 million Europeans are represented in the Council of Europe’s 47 member states and all are encouraged to discover more languages at any age, as part of or alongside their studies. This stems from the Council of Europe’s conviction that linguistic diversity is a tool for achieving greater intercultural understanding and a key element in the rich cultural heritage of our continent. Therefore, the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, promotes plurilingualism in the whole of Europe.
At the Council of Europe’s initiative, the European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on 26 September.
Mother Tongues will mark European Day of Languages with a week-long celebration of multilingualism, with events in Dún Laoghaire, Clones, Lucan, Dublin and Brussels.

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In this storytelling session, we’ll take your child through a rich journey of sound, movement and imagery, listening to award-winning children stories performed in several languages. The language of story is universal and young children instinctively follow narrative through gesture, intonation and visual cues from the illustrations. After reading the stories, our storytellers will engage the children in play-based activities to re-live and extend the narrative, learn new words and make connections with different languages, meanings and sounds.

Why do some bilingual children prefer one language over the other? Is it true that bilingual children start speaking late? How can I help my child to develop two languages at the same time? How long will it take for my child to learn the school language? Is it too late to start speaking my mother tongue to my child? These and other questions will be addressed in this informative talk for parents who are raising bilingual or multilingual children. Parents will learn about bilingual language development and about some of the most common strategies to support their child’s linguistic development throughout childhood.

In this storytelling session, we’ll take your child through a rich journey of sound, movement and imagery, listening to award-winning children stories performed in several languages. The language of story is universal and young children instinctively follow narrative through gesture, intonation and visual cues from the illustrations. After reading the stories, our storytellers will engage the children in play-based activities to re-live and extend the narrative, learn new words and make connections with different languages, meanings and sounds.
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