Good day, TIG members!
The TIG site is known for being international and uniting people of different nations, backgrounds, faiths, beliefs, and cultures, but, alas, not enough attention there is paid to the linguistic matters. That is why I suggest celebrating European Day of Languages that was proposed by the Council of Europe in 2001. Having posted this suggestion on TIG forum, I received several replies and want to thank Ms. Jennifer Corriero (jenergy) from Canada and Mr. Hayk Hakobyan (mnopq) from Switzerland for their responses.
In this entry I would like to sum up the ideas discussed there by me and Mr. Hakobyan. We suggest organizing some inter-language activities and competitions, namely:

- to make a short (not more than 5 min) movie about some thing that can be called a national symbol: the movie (or animated movie, or a series of pictures) can be in a national language with English subtitles
- to hold a poem competition (one poem in English and translations into native languages; or different poems in native languages that are connected somehow with mentality or culture of a certain country and translations into the English language maybe with illustrations)
- to translate some saying of someone very famous about an idealistic thing, or a proverb, or an idiom into many languages to see how it sounds and to compare them in different languages
- to make up a multi-language online word game
- to hold a contest in making anagrams
- to have certain concepts such as peace, or humanity, or passion, described in several foreign languages and give a prize for their best description
- to hold a contest in "concept" drawing (see the sample attached)
- to make a common project with a TIG group World Peace Song created by Ursula (ursulasss)

What ideas concerning this subject do you have? And how can European Day of Languages be practically celebrated on TIG? Thank you in advance!