{"id":846,"date":"2024-02-21T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/?p=846"},"modified":"2024-02-26T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T10:12:18","slug":"happy-international-mother-language-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/2024\/02\/21\/happy-international-mother-language-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy International Mother Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This annual observance, which takes place on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/cultural-diversity\/international-mother-language-day\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/cultural-diversity\/international-mother-language-day\/\">21st February<\/a> every year, is a celebration of cultural and linguistic diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/292\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This afternoon, our Language Centre team joined the celebration of multilingualism at the launch of a new Staff Network for Promoting Linguistic Diversity &amp; Minority Languages. This well-attended event is a wonderful celebration of a belief in the power of language to connect people. Preserving, respecting and learning languages is so important for building tolerance and empathy in our divided world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/292\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/International-Mother-Language-Day-24-Post-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Language &#8211; A Bridge; Not a Barrier!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget that registration opens for our Spring term courses on 1st March, via our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/lc\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.qub.ac.uk\/lc\">Language Centre Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This annual observance, which takes place on 21st February every year, is a celebration of cultural and linguistic diversity. This afternoon, our Language Centre team joined the celebration of multilingualism at the launch of a new Staff Network for Promoting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/2024\/02\/21\/happy-international-mother-language-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,20,21,22,54],"tags":[25,12,36,23,24,13,34,72],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-awareness","category-culture","category-diversity-and-inclusion","category-festivals-and-celebrations","category-irish-language","tag-bamei","tag-cultural-awareness","tag-cultural-diversity","tag-diversity-inclusion","tag-festivals-and-celebrations","tag-language-courses","tag-linguistic-diversity","tag-lovequb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}