[In English below] Lasten ja nuorten lukemiseen kannustamiseksi tehdään työtä usealla taholla. Jo varhain aloitettu yhdessä lukeminen on tärkeää. Lukeminen on mukavaa aikuisen ja lapsen
Category: Multilingual projects
Yhteisöjen ja yksilöiden monet kielet
Koneen Säätiö tuki kieliohjelmassaan 2012–16 monikielisyyttä eri tavoilla, ja monikielisyyden tukeminen on sille edelleen tärkeää. Monikielisyyttä ajatellaan helposti vain yhteiskunnan tasolta, eli että yhteiskunnassa puhutaan
MONIKIELISYYS – uhkana mahdollisuus?? | MULTILINGUALISM – opportunity from a threat?
[In English below] Suomalainen yhteiskunta monimuotoistuu ja samalla monikielistyy koko ajan, varsin nopealla tahdilla. Varsinkin pääkaupunkisedulla muualta tulleita, muita kuin suomea tai ruotsia äidinkielenään puhuvia
Ós Pressan
Once upon a time, in the winter of 2014, there was a woman living in Reykjavík, Iceland who saw an add on Facebook about a
Our library – my language
Reading and library services should be accessible to all – regardless of their language. Multilingual Library brings services to the customer’s local library. Free access
Call to action – the Indigenous language challenge!
This year we celebrate the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages. The purpose of the year is to make the situation of the Indigenous languages
When Kullervo met Araweelo
we could learn more about Nordic-Somali poetry, literature and storytelling It was more than ten years ago when I had my first, unexpected contact with
ROMANI PUBLICATIONS FOR CHILDREN IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES
By 2019, in all countries in Europe where Roma live, a number of publications for children varying from materials to support the education of the
Multilingualism and Polyphony in Immigrants’ Literature in Finland
Immigration and globalization have broadened the definition of Finnish literature that was traditionally defined as a piece of literature written by a Finn in Finnish
Sano se saameksi – Say it in Sámi
Say it in Saami features the first online Saami phrasebook on the Internet containing informal language, and its goal is to help the endangered languages. You
Kolibrí Festivaali
Kolibrí – the Ibero-American children’s cultural festival is a way to experience multiculturalism and multilingualism in Finland through children’s eyes. Kolibrí offers an artistic, recreational
Leikin sata kieltä ja tarinaa / The hundred languages of playing
Leikin sata kieltä ja tarinaa / The hundred languages of playing is a fare about children’s education in multilingual and intercultural contexts. In 2018 the
Tema morsmål – support for multilingual education
Tema Morsmål is a website that offers resources to support different mother tongues and multilingual work in child care, mother tongue education and bilingual education in
Somali Nordic Culture promotes reading and writing in Somali
Somali Nordic Culture is an association located in Sweden. It works to increase interest towards Somali Culture organizing events and festivals, activities for children, film
Café Lingua – Living Languages – Lifandi tungumál
A worldful of languages! Café Lingua is a platform for those who want to enhance their language skills, Icelandic or other languages, a place to
The Flying Carpet – Fljúgandi teppi
The Flying Carpet – intercultural encounters The Flying Carpet is a method of facilitated intercultural encounters created by Kristin R. Vilhjálmsdóttir. By implementing the The
The Women’s Story Circle (Söguhringur kvenna) in Reykjavik City Library
Image: a visual art piece, a new map of Reykjavík, created by The Women´s Story Circle under the guidance of Lilianne Vorstenbosch A worldful of
Learning for Integration: multilingual language cafés, language-specific playgroups for kids, language expert services etc.
Learning for Integration ry promotes the learning of languages and cultural sensitivity of migrant, immigrant and refugee children and youth in Finland and other Nordic countries.
Story Sharing Universum
Story Sharing Universum is a project which helps immigrants, asylum seekers and Finns to meet and share stories together in several languages. The project has two
Ós Pressan
Ós Pressan is a non-profit initiative designed to think of literature in an updated way, to bring out and promote new authors, to create an inclusive, multilingual
Sivuvalo – Is This Finnish Literature?
Sivuvalo project is a creative platform for writers who write in other than the two national languages in Finland. It offers information about transnational writers, edits
Active Library
Active Library programme of Jyväskylä University searched for educational tools to support the growth of young students towards multilingualism and multilingual identities. You can find
NolitchX, Nordic Literatures in Change and Exchange
Nolitch X, Nordic Literatures in Change and Exchange, is a literature project (2017) with the objective of creating networks of immigrant language writers in the Nordic
Reading by listening – a Nordic collaboration produces talking books in Arabic and Sámi
In the Nordic countries, the need for talking books in other languages than European languages has increased during the last few years. Due to the
