{"id":600,"date":"2020-12-08T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T10:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/?p=600"},"modified":"2024-11-12T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:10:52","slug":"photo-competition-to-celebrate-the-european-day-of-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/2020\/12\/08\/photo-competition-to-celebrate-the-european-day-of-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Competition to celebrate the European Day of Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Europe is rich in languages &#8211; there are over 200 European languages and many more spoken by citizens whose family origin is from other continents. This is an important resource to be recognised, used and cherished.&nbsp;Learning other peoples&#8217; languages is a way of helping us to understand each other better and overcome our cultural differences.&nbsp;So&nbsp;with Brexit fast approaching, what better time to remember that even if we are no longer members of the European Union, the UK is still&nbsp;<em>in<\/em>&nbsp;Europe.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Languages Departments celebrated languages through an exciting photo competition in which students were challenged to capture what Europe means to them. Is it a sense of community, a feeling of belonging, diversity, language learning, opportunity, future study or work, family, holidays or something else entirely?&nbsp;Click on the link below to peruse the prize winning entries.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"760px\" height=\"500px\" src=\"https:\/\/sway.office.com\/s\/5wWZWFb1LgAx66iY\/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" max-width=\"100%\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border: none; max-width: 100%; max-height: 100vh\" allowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is rich in languages &#8211; there are over 200 European languages and many more spoken by citizens whose family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,74,68,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-french-modern-foreign-languages","category-german-modern-foreign-languages","category-modern-foreign-languages","category-spanish-modern-foreign-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}