{"id":13335,"date":"2019-09-26T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stage.westend61.com\/blog\/?p=13335"},"modified":"2022-01-11T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T11:59:18","slug":"speak-dating-for-a-common-europe-we-celebrate-the-european-day-of-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westend61.de\/blog\/en\/speak-dating-for-a-common-europe-we-celebrate-the-european-day-of-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak-Dating for a common Europe: we celebrate the European Day of Languages!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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513 people are living in the EU (status quo with twenty-eight member states). After China and India, the third most significant population of the earth. As Europeans, we are living together like in a big family. Sometimes things are getting a little confusing. There are the model students, those who march to a different drummer, the weird uncle we only have to see at the big family meetings, and the favorite Grandma that always gives us some extra pocket money. Twenty-eight member states mean twenty-four languages united under one roof of the European Union – and that does not count the many dialects and geographical differences in languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes the variety of languages turns communication and understanding into a Hercules task. To be honest, from time to time, we ask ourselves how it was possible to align languages in the first place and how many misunderstandings happened in the process? We can not answer this question, but we can point out that the EU, besides having some family disputes, is a symbol of international understanding. It was decorated with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012. A fact, that all Europeans can be proud of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While discussing topics like languages and international understanding, we can not only focus on one political institution as Europe is much more than just the EU. When you talk about the family, you have to include the whole clan. Twenty-four languages are then joined by over 100 minority languages that would cause welding beads on the foreheads of many \u201ewho wants to be a millionaire\u201c-participants: Sorbian, Frisian, Breton, Sami – how many of these did you know? <\/p>\n\n\n\n