Games, guides and more for the European Day of Languages

If you organise an event you may find some resources useful.

• Europarole (Euro words): The Europarole section of the website of the Department for European Policies analyses terms or expressions, mostly in English, used in the EU sphere that are often taken up, and sometimes misrepresented, by common language and the Italian media.
• Competition for the best design for the European Day of Languages T-shirt: Submit your design/drawing/graphic, win the competition and get your design on the official European Day of Languages 2024 T-shirt! The winner will also receive up to 10 t-shirts for his/her classmates/colleagues/friends!
• The EDL language challenges handbook: Following the success of last year's Language Challenge Handbook, which now exists in 24 languages, the European Centre of Modern Languages has launched a new Language Challenge App that can be downloaded from Apple and Google. The manual and the app offer a wide range of challenges for students but also for parents and teachers. Taking on the role of a 'secret agent', the learner has a mission to complete, which involves successfully completing all 50 possible language challenges. The challenges focus on different basic skills and are set at different levels of difficulty. To add further incentive to the initiative, the 51st challenge is "What are you brave enough to do in a foreign language?" and invites users to create a short video clip, based on one of the existing challenges or on their own invention, and upload it on the EDL website.
• Game "Which language is it?": test your ability to identify individual languages by listening to conversations in an everyday context;
• Game "Where am I?": will show you 20 random pictures from all over Europe, and you will have to find out where the pictures were taken.

• Ideas for organising socially distant events: in these uncertain times it can be difficult to organise safe and attractive events for a large number of people. This feature offers 20 ideas to get the creativity flowing;
• Poll: Why learn a language?: encourages visitors to the home page to indicate what motivated them most to adopt a new language. The results of the survey will be announced on Friday 25 September.
• Poll: “What is the best advice you can give to someone starting to learn a language?”: Combining at least some of the suggested approaches can help learners achieve fluency and enjoy their language-learning journey. But which ones would you recommend most? Or can you suggest others that are equally or even more important?
• Quiz Myth or fact?: on language learning on the home page seeks to dispel some commonly repeated myths about language learning and highlight some of the many benefits in a fun quiz format.
• Guide "You can learn languages, too!": offers practical tips on why and how best to learn languages.
• Certification: The EDL event calendar now offers the functionality to generate certificates for people who organise and enter events in the database (after the completion date of an event).
• "ICT Resource of the Week": on the home page presents some of the best available apps that can be used for language teaching and learning.