Celebrating languages and cultures:

This article gives an account of the development event designed to motivate teacher trainee students learn languages. The was planned and organised by Department Foreign Languages Literature at Faculty Primary Pre-school Education, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE TÓK). department’s intention play a proactive role in enhancing students’ language education crossing boundaries formal foreign courses. initial concept hold fair like pop-up that would be easily noticeable throughout building, flexible for participants cater individual needs. Entitled ‘Drop everything learn/teach languages’, this held on September 26th, European Day Languages, as introduced Committee Ministers Council Europe 2001, Year (Council Europe, 2001). aims draw attention importance learning, promote rich linguistic cultural diversity encourage lifelong learning out school. title languages’ additionally inspired Everything Read’ programme initiated sustained silent reading.