{"id":497,"date":"2007-09-25T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T15:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/eu-language-learning\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T15:46:43","slug":"eu-language-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Language learning in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU language experts would like to encourge European citizens to learn more languages, especially such languages as Arabic, Chinese and Hindi, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtimes.org\/articles\/show\/113560.html\">report<\/a> I found today. They hope this will &#8221; boost the EU&#8217;s global competitiveness&#8221;. They would also like language teaching to be more enjoyable and entertaining in order to try to increase enthusiasm for learning languages.<\/p>\n<p>These proposals will presented tomorrow during the European Day of Languages, which is designed &#8220;to celebrate the rich heritage of cultures and traditions embodied in all the languages of Europe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know who these language experts are, what they do, and who to get a job as one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU language experts would like to encourge European citizens to learn more languages, especially such languages as Arabic, Chinese and Hindi, according to a report I found today. They hope this will &#8221; boost the EU&#8217;s global competitiveness&#8221;. They would also like language teaching to be more enjoyable and entertaining in order to try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}