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🇪🇺 How many languages do you speak?
From everyday expressions to words that capture an idea or feeling in a way your own language doesn’t, languages give us different ways to understand and connect with the world.
Today, we celebrate Europe’s linguistic diversity and the 24 official languages of the EU. 🇪🇺
What’s your favourite one?
@EUCommission
English
Scots
Français
Gàidhlig
日本語
@EUCommission four languages fluently. Understanding of another two.
@EUCommission In order of proficiency:
Nederlands
English
Italiano
Deutsch
Français
Quante lingue parla @EUCommission ?
Una sola, sempre la stessa.
L'immagine contiene diversi colori, ma una sola unica lingua.
Eppure ci sarebbe voluto davvero poco a scrivere anche solo la frase "celebriamo la diversità linguistica" in molteplici lingue, almeno nell'immagine. Neppure questo sforzo.
Questa "celebrazione" è decisamente sterile e suona profondamente ipocrita.
Invece di "celebrarla" un singolo giorno, vorrei vedere la diversità linguistica *praticata* quotidianamente.
@EUCommission
Wir 'zelebrieren' also die Sprachvielfalt indem die EU fast nur noch Englisch spricht?
Eine Sprache, die nach dem Ausscheiden von Großbritannien eigentlich eine Minderheitensprache geworden ist??
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Wie wäre es, endlich KI mal sinnvoll einzusetzen und wirklich in ALLEN Sprachen der EU - auch den großen, nicht-offiziellen wie Katalanisch oder Russisch zu kommunizieren?
Solche KI könnte man auch mal AKTIV fördern!!
Da geht noch was, als MACHEN!
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@EUCommission I like finish just to be able to say Perkele
Finnish is such a wonderful language!
@grb090423 @FreeCaribou @EUCommission I was born in Finland and I still live here. Do you know where "perkele" comes from? It was a storm god
italian, english, a bit of romanian
@EUCommission
I do not have one favourite language.
I agree, the different cultures and languages in the EU are a richness of the social landscape.
To enjoy and use that richness better, it is important to create a smoothly functioning common market for small to medium businesses (looking at excize duties, TVA, legal representation, etc.).
@EUCommission English and Swedish, and also trying to learn German. Esperanto might be my favorite since it's such an interesting language, even though I don't speak it myself.
Catalan: spoken by 10 million people in Europe, more than about half of the 24 languages you list as official in the EU. A scandal.
@EUCommission At one point got up to six, but my fluency in several is eroding. (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Swiss German -Zurich dialect.) Zürichdeutsch is nearly gone, Italian is crumbling, and my German is barely functional and frankly embarrassing.
Each of them has been my favorite at some point, though! And some time in each country would probably restore a lot.
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@EUCommission Noch zu wenige, ich suche auch stets nach guten Lernangeboten 🤔
Vielleicht bemüh ich doch mal wieder klassische Lernbücher und Radio.