After a break of four months the Multilingual Café (OLE SIG) will be organized again and it is scheduled for Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. It will be held online using zoom.
This time Christoph Goro KIMURA will present the language "Esperanto". Christoph Goro Kimura is Professor at the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo. He specializes in sociolinguistics, especially focusing on the social functions of second and foreign languages, interlingual communication, as well as the revitalization of minority languages in Europe and Japan. German, Japanese, Esperanto, English, Sorbian, Polish and Koine Greek are languages he uses on a daily basis.
The presentation will be in Japanese on the topic "The history of Esperanto and how it is used today"
エスペラントの歴史と現在
国際語として計画されたエスペラントの歴史的背景をおさえたうえで、現在、どのように使われているかを、ヨーロッパ、アメリカ、アフリカ、アジア各地の人びととエスペラントを使って交流してきた自身の経験を含めて紹介します。
What is the Multilingual Café?
The OLE SIG wants to provide a space to meet and share thoughts and knowledge on various languages and cultures using languages other than English, creating a community of practice. After a short presentation we will meet in breakout rooms (at about 7.45 pm) where the attendees discuss the presented topic in the second languages they know. (Lingua Franca: English and Japanese)
We meet online using zoom, please sign-up for receiving the zoom-credentials.
