Make a Tower of Babel out of our wooden building blocks or our 2000 Mundolingua toilet rolls !
Permanent activity.
Animations
Mother Tongue Statistics
We will ask at the entrance what language you spoke with your mother at the age of 3, to generate the stats for our visitors to Linguafest.
Palindromes and company
Find as many as possible in various languages.
Permanent activity.
Word Grid
The aim is to find a maximum of words in the grid, be they in French, English, Spanish or Russian.
Permanent activity.
Hangman
Hangman is a game whereby one must guess the word chosen by the other, guessing the letters that make up the word.
Permanent activity.
Au delá de “Olá” et “Obrigado”
Camões - Centre culturel portugais
60 min.
ANIMATION
Camões – Centre culturel portugais à Paris vous invite à participer à un cours interactif d’initiation à la langue portugaise.
Venez nombreux!
Date :
samedi 30 à 10h, durée 1h
ESPACE PROJECTIONS
Nushu – secret ancient writing between Chinese women
120 min.
Watch how certain Chinese ladies communicated in secret in the past.
Sunday 1st October from 4pm – 7pm.
Dictionaries Galore
Most people have at least one dictionary at home. Some, such as teachers, translators or writers for instance, may have up to twenty or thirty. Come discover, in exclusivity for Linguafest, a small sample of Olivier Kaiser’s unique collection of more than 1,500 dictionaries: dictionaries of language(s) and of things, which will allow you to realize the amazing range of what is still too often called “the” dictionary. Many are decidedly unusual (Did you know that there is an entire dictionary devoted to the F word? And that another one lists almost 3,000 synonyms of “drunk”, including three made-up ones for copyright protection, called mountweazels?). Let yourself be guided through a strange but fascinating world!
Saturday 30th September from 1-3pm
Sunday 1st October from 11 – 12pm
Sunday 1st October from 4 – 6pm
DICTIONARIES SPACE
Fun activities around Tibetan
Various activities to discover the Tibetan language and alphabet.
Saturday 30th Sept and Sunday 1st of October from 2pm – 5pm.
Languages of Europe
Find the names of European languages in the grid.
Permanent activity.
Scrabble
Have fun with our giant Scrabble carpet. Possible in English, French, German, Arabic, Russian, Spanish and phonetics !
Permanent activity.
Name in many forms
Write your name in Braille, phonetics, WinPitch, Calligraphy, Esperanto, other alphabets, code and find out about its history.
Permanent activity.
Chinese Calligraphy
Passeport pour la Chine
60 min.
Organised by Passeport pour la Chine.
Saturday 30th Sept 3pm
Sunday 1st Oct, 3pm
Drawing competition for Proverbs
Illustrate multilingual expressions that convey the concept of “being stupid” – a prize for the best drawing ! (Rosetta stone jigsaw puzzle) !
Permanent activity.
Treasure Hunt
A questionnaire with the answers to be found amongst the various exhibitors.
Permanent activity.
Taboo Words
(Swear Words !) To be tried out in the temporary fitting room !
Permanent activity.
Various Calligraphies
Over the 3 days you will have the opportunity to discover various calligraphies (from the Greek kállos meaning beautiful and grapheîn, to write) and différent types of writing.
Permanent activity.
Puns
A joint project to a create a book with your puns from any and many languages.
Permanent activity.
