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On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

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  • kinkkong@kinkycats.orgK kinkkong@kinkycats.org

    @giovaelpe @EUCommission

    Bueno, el mensaje de inicio es en inglés, entonces respondi en inglés.

    En Berlín hay tanta gente que habla español, es impresionante. Muchos latin@s, pero tambien muchos jovenes que lo aprenden en la escuela.

    Todavía, mi inglés es mejor que mi español. Pero me parece mucho más fácil aprender español que inglés. Entonces es más apto como lingua franca de la #UE.

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    @kinkkong @EUCommission Estoy de acuerdo el español es enorme, cuando viajé a Hungría el año pasado, en el aeropuerto la persona de la casa de cambio y 3 camareros de 3 restaurantes diferentes me hablaron en español (Húngaros) y algo parecido me pasó en París... Aún así hay mucha más gente que habla inglés como segundo idioma

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    • giovaelpe@mastodon.socialG giovaelpe@mastodon.social

      @kinkkong @EUCommission Estoy de acuerdo el español es enorme, cuando viajé a Hungría el año pasado, en el aeropuerto la persona de la casa de cambio y 3 camareros de 3 restaurantes diferentes me hablaron en español (Húngaros) y algo parecido me pasó en París... Aún así hay mucha más gente que habla inglés como segundo idioma

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      #36

      @giovaelpe @EUCommission

      De acuerdo, claro que si!
      Pero eso puede cambiar con el tiempo.
      Lingua franca era griego, después latin, en un momento francés, ahora es inglés, pero en un momento puede ser #castellano o #mandarin 🙂

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      • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

        On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

        The EU is home to:
        🌍 24 official languages
        🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

        Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

        This diversity is our strength.

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        @EUCommission Catalan is spoken by 10 million people and still it's not an official language of the EU.

        Each country has its own policies to manage other languages, most of the time the minority language keeps waning. It's not an EU thing.

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        • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

          On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

          The EU is home to:
          🌍 24 official languages
          🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

          Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

          This diversity is our strength.

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          #38

          @EUCommission less than in Ghana, for example. The nostalgic clinging to different languages is laughable - downtown a certain degree it hinders free information flow and free trade, which are some of the more important central things of the EU. I like diversity as in different views on the same subject, and all languages in the EU are easily translated, so that's fine, but once you have to get a translator for the translator, to show people your product, you're basically f***ed.

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          • angelomassaro@mastodon.socialA angelomassaro@mastodon.social

            @Pare @EUCommission ma l'UE mi sembra molto attiva nel campo delle traduzioni, basta visitare i vari portali informativi dell'Unione. Poi se questo tipo di post sono in inglese, immagino sia per la maggiore visibilità linguistica, di certo non per far affronto alla nostra bella lingua romanza.

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            #39

            Buongiorno @angelomassaro,
            non dico che l'intero impianto dell'UE sia contrario alla pluralità linguistica.

            Però i problemi ci sono e l'uso smodato di una lingua difficile come l'inglese, usata come "standard de facto", anche se molte e molti europei non la capiscono o la capiscono male, è uno di questi.

            A volte i bandi vengono tradotti con mesi di ritardo, creando una pesante discriminazione.

            Oggi l'@EUCommission ricorda questa giornata e lo fa dimenticando le lingue madre di quasi tutti.

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            • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

              On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

              The EU is home to:
              🌍 24 official languages
              🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

              Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

              This diversity is our strength.

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              #40

              @EUCommission Well if The Greenland Ice Sheets melt toward Northern Europe due to fossil fuels abuse causing an AMOC collapse; you better reinvent "unbreakable" right-quick.

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              • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

                The EU is home to:
                🌍 24 official languages
                🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

                Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

                This diversity is our strength.

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                #41

                @EUCommission then maybe tell France to stop actively suppressing languages other than Northern French inside its own territory!!! or recognize Catalan, a language with 10mi speakers, spoken in 3 EU countries!!!

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                • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                  On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

                  The EU is home to:
                  🌍 24 official languages
                  🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

                  Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

                  This diversity is our strength.

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                  #42

                  @EUCommission "60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people", being Catalan the main one of the "regional" languages, with around 10 milion speakers. Catalan is more spoken than other official EU languages, and yet, YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN and treat us like second class Europeans.

                  So take your whitewashing International Mother Language Day and f**k off.

                  You can still demonstrate your commitment with actions, not empty words.

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                  • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                    On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

                    The EU is home to:
                    🌍 24 official languages
                    🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

                    Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

                    This diversity is our strength.

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                    #43

                    @EUCommission yet you are not interested in protecting any of it, as your policy regarding not official languages is inexistent when not supporting their dissppearance. EU is just a trading club.

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                    • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                      On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

                      The EU is home to:
                      🌍 24 official languages
                      🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

                      Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

                      This diversity is our strength.

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                      #44

                      @EUCommission 60 lol, France has 75 languages in its lands 😉

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                      • valhalla@social.gl-como.itV valhalla@social.gl-como.it

                        @kinkkong @EUCommission honestly, using a language that is not the official language of one of the big countries of the EU (but is widely known as a second language) sounds better than giving undue advantage to the people in a country that already has a big population.

                        And besides, if that single language had to be chosen by number of EU speakers, I believe that German or French would come first, then Italian¹, and only then Spanish

                        ¹ please don't! too many Italians are already self-centered assholes, they don't need to be helped gain confidence in their cultural importance this way.

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                        #45

                        Ciao @valhalla,
                        do you mean that using English now does make sense, because of Brexit?
                        @EUCommission @kinkkong

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                        • pare@sociale.networkP pare@sociale.network

                          Ciao @valhalla,
                          do you mean that using English now does make sense, because of Brexit?
                          @EUCommission @kinkkong

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                          @Pare @EUCommission @kinkkong it's not like they were the most important EU country either, but yeah, it helped

                          I hope that when Scotland will join back into the EU they'll use Scots and Scottish Gaelic as their main official languages 😄

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                          • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                            Hi @kinkkong! We are dedicated to diversity and multilingualism. However, this particular social media page is in English because, for practical reasons, it is not feasible to do it in all 24 official EU languages.

                            You could consider checking out the pages run by our colleagues in the EU Representations in the Member States, which are available for every country and in every EU language. Find out more here: https://link.europa.eu/dhBrwm

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                            @EUCommission @kinkkong i aquest és el truc. Ens ha de representar Espanya, que minoritza el nostre idioma (que no és minoritari, però està miniritzat) i nosaltres que el giram en nom del negoci i el turisme.
                            És que no és pràctic, millor ho feim tot en anglès, un idioma sense cap país que el reprrsenti dins l'EU. Perfecte. Meravellós.
                            Bon dia dels idiomes materns (segons quind, i segons on)

                            @spla

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                            • valhalla@social.gl-como.itV valhalla@social.gl-como.it

                              @kinkkong @EUCommission honestly, using a language that is not the official language of one of the big countries of the EU (but is widely known as a second language) sounds better than giving undue advantage to the people in a country that already has a big population.

                              And besides, if that single language had to be chosen by number of EU speakers, I believe that German or French would come first, then Italian¹, and only then Spanish

                              ¹ please don't! too many Italians are already self-centered assholes, they don't need to be helped gain confidence in their cultural importance this way.

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                              @valhalla @EUCommission @kinkkong but everybody loves the sound of Italian… so it would make sense to use it at least instead of French as co-official language of the EU… 😄

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                              • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                                On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

                                The EU is home to:
                                🌍 24 official languages
                                🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

                                Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

                                This diversity is our strength.

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                                #49

                                @EUCommission yes, sure...just one problem here, catalan people still waiting...
                                Catalan is our language but you forget about us so you are not respecting our mothers and fathers language day.

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                                • spla@mastodont.catS spla@mastodont.cat

                                  @tmallafre hipòcrites i cínics
                                  @EUCommission

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                                  @spla @tmallafre

                                  Algú podria creure que és una fantasia europea, una visió il·lusòria, però no, és exactament HIPOCRESIA EUROPEA!

                                  @EUCommission, el que de debò celebreu és el dia de les llengües "maternes" estatals d'estats lingüicides que per a molts parlants són llengües imposades talment com madrastes de la ventafocs.

                                  Podeu mentir tot el què vulgueu, ja que d'això en sabeu molt, però no enganyeu. I ara a seguir malgastant el futur en bombes i crims.

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                                  • paride5745@mastodon.bsd.cafeP paride5745@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                    @valhalla @EUCommission @kinkkong but everybody loves the sound of Italian… so it would make sense to use it at least instead of French as co-official language of the EU… 😄

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                                    @paride5745 @kinkkong @EUCommission come on! if French was good enough for the first king of Italy¹, there is no need to use Italian as an international language 😄

                                    ¹ yes, fun fact: the first king of Italy didn't speak Italian as his native language

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                                    • valhalla@social.gl-como.itV valhalla@social.gl-como.it

                                      @paride5745 @kinkkong @EUCommission come on! if French was good enough for the first king of Italy¹, there is no need to use Italian as an international language 😄

                                      ¹ yes, fun fact: the first king of Italy didn't speak Italian as his native language

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                                      @valhalla @EUCommission @kinkkong that king conquered my lands, destroyed my kingdom, and nowadays we are called freeloaders and north Italians (who came to “liberate” us) still act racists towards us. No thanks, that king is no king of mine. May he burn in hell.

                                      Btw I love French, but it’s also because of France that the interwar project to use Esperanto as internal language was vetoed. Esperanto might have had a chance if not for the French.

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                                      • eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.euE eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

                                        On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

                                        The EU is home to:
                                        🌍 24 official languages
                                        🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

                                        Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

                                        This diversity is our strength.

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                                        fransua5@piaille.fr
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                                        #53

                                        @EUCommission
                                        Kial en la angla ?

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                                        • F fransua5@piaille.fr

                                          @EUCommission
                                          Kial en la angla ?

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                                          #54
                                          @Fransua5
                                          Proč ne?
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