Expert Seminar. The Added Value of Multilingualism and Multilingual Education

Fryske Akademy. June 2-4 2010

Linguamón – House of

Languages

7000 m2

Architect: Benedetta Tagliabue

Investment: 30 million euros

Opening: 2013

Can Ricart: siège de Linguamón

Can Ricart: Linguamón’s HQ

Universal values

Dissemination to general audience

Research

Linguamón-UOC

Chair in Multilingualism:

International Master’s

Degree in Cultural and

Linguistic Diversity

ELAN.CAT STUDY

ELAN.CAT results:

Use of translation/interpretation services in Catalan-based companies (not the same as Catalan companies!!)

55,4%21,8%

18,8%9,9%

7,9%5,9%5,0%4,0%4,0%3,0%2,0%2,0%2,0%2,0%

7,9%

0 20 40 60 80 100

AnglèsFrancès

AlemanyXinèsItalià

JaponèsRus

PortuguèÀrab

EspanyolHolandès

PolonèsRomanès

CatalàAltres

Medium-sized languagesResearch study

Some language communities:

Dutch: Marc Van Oostendorp, Meertens Instituut. Finnish: Sirkku Latomaa, University of Tampere.Danish: Jens Normann Jorgensen, University of Copenhagen. Estonian: Delaney Michael Skerrett, University of Tartu.Latvian: Uldis Ozolins, La Trobe University.Slovenian: Maja Bitenc, University of Ljubljana. Czech: Jíri Nekvapil, Charles University, Prague. Hebrew: Anat Stavans, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Language mediation services in public Administrations

Linguamón-House of Languages

www.linguamon.cat