[fse-esf] About the choice of languages in Frankfurt

[Anastasia Lampropoulous]

        Dear all, 
      During the organization of the 4th  ESF in Athens, Babels assisted by ALIS group strived to provide passive –at  least- interpretation in more than 20 languages. This choice was not a luxury  that the Greek Organizing Committee could afford to offer to the participants.  It was a conscious political decision; both Babels-el and the Organizing  Committee knew that not so many languages were “strictly” needed for carrying  out the 4th ESF. However, at the expense of organizing the EL booth  in a better way, Babels-el and the Organizing Committee decided that it was  politically important to send the participants the message that we are doing  our best to make everyone’s voice heard. 
       
      I was extremely surprised to find out that our  effort to break the barrier of the widely spoken languages and to include  Eastern European ones was not noticed by anyone. In the first EPA for the 5th  ESF, there will be interpretation only in English, French and German. There was  not even a thought or a discussion about including an Eastern European language  such as Polish.
           
  Today I –I know it’s a bit late but I lost  track of the developments because I faced health problems lately- read the  message of Hugo Braun about the topics that will be discussed in the EPA. The  first topic is the evaluation of the 4th ESF and how we are going to  proceed. However, so as to hold this discussion and make the most of it, you  should at least consider to provide simultaneous interpretation from and into  Greek since a number of Greeks are going to travel to Frankfurt to talk about  their experience and discuss about the process. Some of them speak neither  English nor French nor German and others although might speak one of the  above-mentioned languages, they are anything but fluent. 
              Anastasia Lampropoulou
  Babels-el
    
 		
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