Resources for teachers


Welcome, teachers! We offer a range of resources for the European Day of Languages, including classroom activities, games, and materials you can use directly with your students. Our resources are designed to support your teaching and help students explore the richness of languages across Europe.


Or simply download our EDL activity kit for teachers!

An activity kit for the 2025 European Day of Languages. This practical kit is bursting with ideas for activities for this year’s EDL – no teacher should be without one! 

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Ready-to-use resources

 

Lara's language journeys across Europe

These two booklets explore Europe’s linguistic richness: Lara's language journey across Europe explores many of the larger languages and writing systems found in Europe today, while Lara’s journey through Europe’s Regional and Minority Languages focuses on minority and lesser-known ones. Together they highlight similarities and differences, unique identities, and the stories behind around 225 native European languages. You can also listen to how these languages sound and download a language tree poster.

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Posters "20 things you might not know about the world of languages"

The “20 things you might not know about the world of languages” posters are available in more than 15 languages. These posters can be used in the classroom to create discussion on a variety of topics. For example, did you know that the French language has 16 different ways of writing the sound “o” or that only 5% of Portuguese speakers live in Portugal?

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Self-evaluate your language skills

The ‘Self-evaluate your language skills’ tool helps you to assess your level of proficiency in the languages you know according to six reference levels described in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The tool draws on the CEFR’s selfassessment grid. Self-evaluation test questions are available in multiple languages. You can download your evaluation results as a PDF.

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Initiative 2025: An anthem for the European Day of Languages!

Help to create (and perform) a multilingual EDL anthem. With the help of AI, we have generated the text of a song in English entitled “Voices of Europe”. We now invite schools, organisations/associations (and individuals!) to make it into a truly multilingual work – either by translating/adapting the text into a language they speak, or to go one step further and develop their own version of the anthem. 

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Poster initiative 2025: Languages open hearts and minds!

Create a poster illustrating the theme of this year’s European Day of Languages “Languages open hearts and minds!”. You can use artwork, symbols and quotes to reflect how languages involve both emotions and the brain and serve as a vehicle for reaching across linguistic and cultural divides. Send us a photo or pdf of the poster you produce to be showcased on the EDL website.

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EDL and sign languages

International Sign language is often used among sign language users from different countries, who don’t have a common language – as the name suggests it is an international language. In the European Union, there are estimated to be around 750,000 sign language users who rely on sign language as their primary means of communication. Find out more about European sign languages – learn 25 words in International Sign and discover and test yourself on recognising country names!

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Language challenges (app and handbook)

As a ‘secret agent’ you are going to visit new places and foreign lands. A good agent needs to be confident about his/her language skills to ensure never to reveal their identity! Therefore you will need to be able to speak foreign languages as fluently as possible. The language challenges in the app and handbook mostly relate to authentic, everyday communication tasks that agents need to be repared for! Try your hand at being a secret agent, either with the handbook or the app – both available in 31 languages.

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Resources from ECML projects

 

Mediation in teaching, learning and assessment (METLA)

The METLA resources propose innovative and engaging ways in which teachers can include language mediation in their everyday classroom practice. The resources provide essential information about language mediation, examples of cross-linguistic mediation tasks and step-by-step guidelines on how you can design and evaluate your own language mediation tasks.

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Digital citizenship through language education

E-lang citizen resources provide a pedagogical framework for the development of digital citizenship and "real-life tasks". These tasks are a motivating way of developing language skills and digital citizenship by enabling learners to (inter)act in authentic situations. The tasks encourage learners to act as citizens and to reflect critically on their experience.

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Inventory of ICT tools and open educational resources

Language education is an area where open-access resources, online courses, virtual classrooms and social networks are being increasingly used to give learners access to information, promote interaction and communication, and enhance digital literacy skills. Language professionals need to know not only how to use these tools but how to review them according to pedagogical criteria.

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Policy documents

 

A new Council of Europe Recommendation on the importance of plurilingual and intercultural education for democratic culture
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Empowering language learners - a motivation manifesto for the European Day of Languages
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Games

 

Listen and guess the language

Listen carefully! Can you guess which language it is? Thirty-eight audio recordings are available on the EDL website. You may recognise some of the languages. You will also be invited to discover less common languages, perhaps even some languages you have never heard before.

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Where am I?

You will be shown 20 random images from all over Europe. Can you identify, where those photos where taken? Use your language skills and the virtual magnifying glass to find clues that will lead you to the right place. Good luck!. 

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Are you a language detective?

Can you recognise all the languages being displayed in the game? The game features 40 languages! Even if you don’t succeed at first, remember to try, try and try again!

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Language quiz

To celebrate the European Day of Languages, we suggest a quiz to give you the chance to test your knowledge about the languages of our continent.

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EDL video