This years' celebration of the European Day of Languages in Dubrovnik took place in the heart of the Old City of Dubrovnik in front of the church of St. Blaise and featured over 100 participants and countless languages.

The program was prepared by Europe House Dubrovnik, a Dubrovnik based association, in cooperation with a number of educational institutions, associations and honorary consulates. Participants read, recited, sung and performed short plays – all in different languages. Even tourist joined in the celebration with a tourist from Canada playing a French classic on a harmonica and an American tourist reciting a poem in Namibian.

The celebration of European linguistic diversity is the first activity in this year's program of Europe House Dubrovnik within the Time to Move campaign, a Europe wide collection of events for young people, organized every October by the Eurodesk platform, aiming to inform young people about various mobility opportunities. As the knowledge of foreign languages enormously contributes to professional opportunities of young people in tourism, Europe House Dubrovnik and its partners mark with this program also the World Tourism Day (September 27).

About the European Day of Languages

European Day of Languages (September 26) was launched by the Council of Europe in 2001 aiming at fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism in Europe. Various events are aimed to draw attention of European citizens of the importance of learning foreign languages, at every age, through formal and informal education, and for a better intercultural understanding.