European Day of Languages: A Celebration at the Educational Complex

Nune Aydinyan

The Council of Europe promotes multilingualism throughout Europe as a key to intercultural communication and a fundamental element of its rich cultural heritage; it encourages people in its 46 member states to learn more than one language at any age—both within and outside the school environment. As is well known, a significant number of students at the Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educomplex are multilingual: in addition to Armenian and Russian, they are proficient in English—which serves as a lingua franca—and also study European languages ​​(such as French, Spanish, Italian, and, this year, German) or regional foreign languages—specifically the languages ​​of neighboring peoples, such as Georgian, Persian, or Turkish.

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