Eton Institute Vienna launches Summer Campaign with huge Online Sale Vienna language institute offers one-day occasion to boost personal and professional skills Who hasn’t felt like learning and speaking another language recently to explore new worlds and open up one’s mind? And who hasn’t thought that summer would actually be the perfect time for turning […]
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Nagsasalita ka ba ng tagalog? – Do you speak Tagalog? About 9.000 people in Vienna would immediately reply “Yes!” as the city of Vienna counts 8.972 inhabitants with Filipino migrant background and another 3.566 inhabitants with Filipino citizenship. Eton Institute Vienna http://www.etoninstitute.com/at/ therefore takes the opportunity to throw the spotlight on the city’s Filipino Community […]
Vienna was treated to a “Carnival of Languages” last week as a language learning institute celebrated it’s third year in the city with an public event, including free classes and workshops. The Eton Institute Vienna put on dozens of activities at their third birthday event in the Vienna City Centre, including translating typically Viennese songs […]
Possible projects for a “multilingual oriented educational concept” have led to a debate in Vienna. The SPÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ are currently discussing the two sides of the issue: “multilingualism as a chance” and “German as a priority”. The “forum.wien.welt.offen”, an expert group that has replaced the commission of migration of the city of Vienna, […]
An online comic strip set up as a blog by a Viennese student notched up in September more than 1 million page views. Felix Goldberg decided to put his English-language comic strips on the subject of love and relationships online and said he was surprised about the response. He said: “I am really overwhelmed by […]
Kurz tackles immigration at school level
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Integration Secretary Sebastian Kurz, 26, was at the ministry of interior affairs this week discussing with educationalists whether schools were failing in their mission of integration. Kurz was preparing for today’s launch of Vienna’s second annual Integration week, which he described as ‘an integration offensive necessary in order to build consciousnesses.’ The youngest minister in […]
Linz deputy mayor Klaus Luger (SPÖ) says a policy of targetting kids with language difficulties which he prioneered in local kindergartens has been vindicated by a German report. According to the new study by the Berlin-Institute for Population and Development, carefully targetted language initiatives in Kindergartens bring the greatest results in advancing the language ability […]
A movie the British Film Institute named the best British film of the 20th century will be on at the Burgkino this Sunday (27 November). THE THIRD MAN has been on at the Viennese cinema, which shows all films in their original language versions, for years. Tourists and local residents are flocking to the Burgkino […]