On February 21 the world celebrates annually the International Native Language Day, declared in November 17, 1999 by the UNESCO General Conference.

Language is an integral part of each nation together with culture, traditions, way of life and history. The International Native Language Day is directed at first to languages protection. According to the data of the UNESCO a half part of 6 thousand world’s languages may lose their last native-speakers.

In this International Native Language Day all languages are recognized as equal, because each of them is unique, responds to human needs and represents alive heritage, which should be protected and respected by everybody.

On February 21, 2003 on the occasion of the International Native Language Day Mr. K.Macuura, Director General of the UNESCO noted: “Why a mother tongue attracts such attention? Because languages build the unique expression of human creativity at all its diversity. As communication instrument, sense and thought, a language also describes how we look at world and it reflects connections between past, present and future. Languages bear remains of chance encounter, variety of sources of which they have accomplished, each according to own history.

Mother tongues are unique relatively a print they make for each individual from born day, endue its with special seeing things, which in fact never will disappear although in the future human masters various languages. Foreign languages learning is a method for making acquaintance with other world-view, with other approaches”.

Our congratulations on occasion of this wonderful holiday and wishing you creative success!