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  • Language is the best mediator for establishment of friendship and accord (Erasmus of Rotterdam).

  • Language is the environment where the world and " I " join together (H.G.Gadamer).

  • People seek to unite, and language is a peculiar catalyst for unification processes (V. Rusu).

  • The existence of people is tightly bound by their language (G. Bataille).

  • Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order (A. France).

  • The world of language is as deep and infinite as the world of nature (V.L.Ibragimova).

  • Languages of different nations are just the facets of one diamond (V.D.Osipov).

  • Knowing many languages means to have a lot of keys to one lock (Voltaire).

  • To learn a language a desire is more important than necessity (St.Augustine).

  • The study of a foreign language is widening the scope of all we can learn in general (H.G.Gadamer).

  • The more languages you know the more of a person you are (A.P. Chechov).

  • Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own (I. Goethe).

  • The greatest treasure of every nation is its language (M.A.Sholokhov).

  • To get some knowledge of a nation’s morals you should first learn its language (Pythagoras of Samos).

  • The language of a nation is the best, never fading and always blossoming flower of its spiritual life (K.D.Ushinsky).

  • Language is the vessel where national ideas and beliefs are cast, preserved and passed on (I.Gerder).

  • Language is an eternal stream, holding the new on the wave of the old (A.S.Sobolev).

  • The word is the greatest instrument of life (V.G. Korolenko).

  • Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it (L. Wittgenstein).

  • Language is the ford of the river of time (V.M.Illich-Svitych).

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15.06.2022

Dear Friends! We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Festival of Languages of the Peoples of Russia and Belarus, which will be held on December 20, 2022 at the Southwest State University (Russian Federation) and Polotsk State University (Republic of Belarus). We are waiting for your applications until December 12, 2022. Welcome!

 

21.04.2021

Dear friends! We invite you to the II International Linguistic Festival in Kursk that will be held on April 23-24, 2021.

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A Linguistic Festival is a mass educational event dedicated to languages and linguistics which is organized within the framework of the humanistic-oriented international project of the name "Language Festival". The idea of this project appeared due to the initiative of Dennis Keefe,a Franco-American Esperantist and public figure. He organized the first Language Festival (in Esperanto: Lingva Festivalo) in Tours, France in 1995.

In contrast to frequent commercial fairs of training courses organized in various countries, the festival was aimed at the discovery of the diversity of the language world through open presentations of languages in the form of informative lessons. The first language festival drew the attention of about 800 students, whereas two years later it was attended by 3,600 people. A report about the first festival was published in the international Esperanto magazine "Kontakto". The event was highly appreciated by the readers, and in 1996 Russia also organized a Language Festival.

The first Language Festival in Russia held in Cheboksary was similar to Tours festival. Over the past 26 years the geography of the festival movement has expanded significantly. A number of countries of the near and far abroad (including Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Georgia, Moldova, Venezuela, China, the USA, Finland, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Sweden) grew interested in the ideas of the Language Festival. 2008 Language Festival with 13 500 participants held by one of the leading universities in the Chinese city of Nanjing is recognized as the largest event in the history of the festival movement.

About 15 Russian cities, namely Cheboksary, Ulyanovsk, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Kemerovo, Ufa, Izhevsk, Kaluga, Yakutsk, Velikiy Novgorod, are currently engaged in Language Festivals' organization on the territory of Russia. Among Russian as well as foreign cities Cheboksary is the absolute leader. Since 1996 it has been a host for 17 traditional Language Festivals attracting up to 2-3 thousand people (website of the Language Festival in Cheboksary: http://www.lingvafestivalo.org).

The organizers of the festival compare the acquaintance with the wealth of the language world with a journey during which a discoverer meets a lot of doors to the “neighbor” linguistic worlds outside the native language. The most common structure of language festivals has developed over the past years in Russia and abroad. It includes an inauguration and a day or several days of presentations crowned with a closing ceremony where participants receive diplomas and souvenirs. An integral and pleasant part of an inauguration is "a presentation of presentations" during which participants come to the stage and make an announcement of their presentations. Today more or less traditional format of Language Festival has the form of presentations (mini-lessons), 30-50 minutes each.

As a rule, presentations are held in parallel blocks, which means that every visitor has the opportunity to choose where to go. It is interesting to note that in recent years the format of the event is being enriched as well as the range of  languages is being enlarged. This adds up to the festival's greater appeal and reliability of  a real international celebration. Today in addition to usual language presentations, festivals include informative lectures on linguistics, so called linguistic “drawing rooms” organized for communication in a particular language, linguistic contests, as well as literary contests devoted to languages, book exhibitions where one can get acquainted with a wide variety of sources in different languages of the world. Besides, festivals may include unique language concerts which arouse much interest of the audience.

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