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October 5th, 2009The European Day of Languages took place last week, and an article in The Scotsman reported on developments such as the Confucius Classrooms programme (supporting Mandarin), the growth of Gaelic learning, and the provision of Latin.
The European Commission’s Translation department (Directorate-General for Translation, DGT) has developed an animated game for young people to increase interest in European languages, and LinguaGo is now on the EuropaGo website at http://europa.eu/linguago/ . The aim of the game is to navigate a language maze and collect parcels. To get through the maze, players need to guess the names of the European languages and steer clear of mischievous spiders. As they progress, they will also have to play the game in languages other than their own.