Britain’s first ever National Museum of Languages will soon be coming to high streets across Britain, as part of efforts to make the country multilingual.
The new pop-up museum will have a physical presence in regional centres as well as a major batch of online learning resources.
The project is part of the new MEITS (Multilingualism – Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies) project based at the University of Cambridge, and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
[…] Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Professor of French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and the principal investigator of MEITS, said the museum was important to engage the wider public in languages.
She added: “When we started, we found it very surprising that there are museums for dog collars and lawnmowers, but there is no National Museum of Languages in the UK, and we thought that was a real gap. More.
See: Belfast Telegraph
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United States
Local time: 11:22
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A museum of the English language might be quite needed and fascinating as well, though, since the quality of the language has been doing down for quite some time. English has a fascinating history, its intermediate linguistic stages not being even vaguely similar to the Modern Language.
[Edited at 2016-10-09 08:36 GMT]
Spain
Local time: 17:22
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I'm afraid anything with "multiculturalism" in the heading will be a dead duck in water post-Brexit.
PS: (@Dan) Same difference.
[Edited at 2016-10-10 09:03 GMT]
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:22
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I'm afraid anything with "multiculturalism" in the heading will be a dead duck in water post-Brexit.
Fortunately it actually says "multilingualism" so that should be fine.
Dan
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