Moving Languages – English application launch
Friday 8th June 2018, 18:00 – 20:00
Esmée Fairbairn building Lecture theatre – EF26
Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus
Edinburgh
The Moving Languages application constitutes an EU-funded project designed to help new migrants learn the host language(s) and familiarise themselves with culture-specific vocabulary. A user-friendly, versatile and comprehensive app, it also aims to encourage people to learn other languages and promote understanding between cultures. Our mission is to help combat linguistic and cultural isolation, which is proven to be one of the key barriers to the successful integration of migrants. The project is led by Finnish organisation Learnmera Oy.
This free application provides a gamified language and culture-learning solution. It contains 4000+ illustrated vocabulary items for easy concept recognition. It will be available for download from all major app stores from June 2018.
Users can learn English, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Finnish (main languages) from 20 support languages, widely spoken by refugees/migrants in the partner countries: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Kurdish (Sorani), Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Tigrinya, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu.
Are you a user of any of the main or support languages? Do you work in the languages or intercultural communication industry? Then join us at the launch of the English version of the Moving Languages application!
The event will be followed by a feedback session and a drinks reception for an opportunity to find out more about the project.
The event is free but spaces are limited, so please register here:
https://goo.gl/forms/v0jgBXbcT0TgZKso1
Details on how to get to the venue will be emailed to registered participants.
For more information, please contact the UK coordinator, Dr Katerina Strani: A.Strani@hw.ac.uk
Project flyer in English: Moving Languages Flyer ENGLISH
Website: http://www.movinglanguages.eu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/movinglanguages/
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8580234
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/movinglanguages/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MovLanguages
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission under Project No. 2016-1-FI01-KA204-022678