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Language Festivals was a two-year Lingua 1 project that was designed to raise interest in the learning of foreign languages by members of the general public. The project was a direct result of a Contact Seminar hosted by the British Council in London in June 2004. The project was funded from October 2005 until September 2007.

The partners in the project represented six key European languages - Czech, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish – and also a wide range of teaching institutions. The Czech partner was a private adult education school, the English partners public sector colleges, the French partner an NGO (non-governmental organisation), the Austrian partner an adult folk high school, the Italian partner a public sector vocational school and the Spanish partner a public sector specialist language school.

Find out more and read the results on the Language Festivals website.

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