VMU celebrated the International Mother Language Day
On 21 February, the Institute of Foreign Languages organised a Mother Language Day celebration. The day was designated by UNESCO in 1999 and aims to promote multilingualism as well as highlight the diversity of languages and cultures.
International VMU lecturers and students joined the event, organising various language games in their mother tongues: Albanian, Bulgarian, Esperanto, Japanese, Yoruba, Cantonese, Kartvelian, Montenegrin and Bosnian, Turkish and Ukrainian. The event attracted a large number of participants who were learning words and phrases in these languages, singing and writing in Kartvelian.
Of course, the Lithuanian language was also presented: international students tried to recognise Lithuanian words, and Lithuanians had the opportunity to recall the things that they might have already forgotten: fairy tales, songs, legends, tongue-twisters, etc…. Perhaps they had a chance to think about how beautiful and rich the Lithuanian language is.
