History
Dennis Keefe, from Heroldo May 31st, 1996
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Festival Schedule
In this section, I will continue to place as many of the paper records of the Language Festival as I can. I accept materials in any language. Current categories include: schedules, the first LinguaFest webpage, hourly statistics on attendance, rankings of language courses attended, surveys, the original training booklet, posters, the original FAQs, Festival site maps, Wikipedia articles, and so on.
Schedules
France, Tours 1995. The first Language Festival, 32 languages, 96 mini-lessons.
France, Tours 1996. The second Language Festival, 65 languages 213 mini-lessons.
France, Tours 1997. 85 lingvoj taught in 254 mini-lessons.
United States, University of Illinois 1999. First Langauge Festival in the USA, 65 languages, 165 mini-lessons.
France, Tours 2005 The eleventh Language Festival. 141 mini-lessons.
Italy, Parma 2006. A good example of a mini-festival with about 20 languages taught in the courtyard of the city library.
First web page from 1996
First Web Page In 1996 I wrote down a number of my ideas about Langauge Festivals.
Statistics - Original Documents
France, Tours 1997 The Third Language Festival in Tours, France, the 8th and 9th of March, 1997. These are the original notes of Michel, Guy, kaj Didier, local members of the Esperanto club.
United States, University of Illinois 1999. The Festival of Languages on March 27th, 1999. Original notes of the festival statistitians.
Rankings of Language Popularity during Event
Statistics -- Hourly Attendance Graph
France, Tours 1995 This graph shows the total number of people attnending the minilessons hour by hour.
Surveys on Site
France, Tours 1996 Responses given by the public on a survey administered toward the end of the Language Festival.
France, Tours 1996 English translation of the French survey.
Training Booklet Online
Here is the original Language Festival training guide , 13 pages of training material used to prepare the language teachers. Originally used in 1995 and reworked in 1996 and 1999.
First Internet Training
Click on Website
for Training 1999 to look at my web guide for the Language Festival.
This guide was very useful because it was very difficult for me to meet
and train with all of our 70 or so teachers.
Posters
France, Tours 1997. The complete poster, but in black and white.
Finland, Juvaskula 1997 The special web page made by Matthi Lathinen for his festival.
United States, University of Illinois, 1999
United States, University of
Illinois, 1999, the Web Page.
United States, Universitato de Illinois, 1999,
Linguistic Voyage of India (parto
de LingvoFestivalo)
Usono, University of Illinois, 1999, Linguistic Voyage of Africa (one special part of the Language Festival)
Rusia, Cheboksary, 2005
Ukraine, Odessa, 2006, Top part of the poster only.
France, Lille, 2006
France, Tours 2006
Belgio, Leuven 2008
FAQ -- Original Questions
Written by Dennis Keefe in March - April 1996, in English. Click on FAQs.
Festival Sites
Here you can see the Festival site for 1999 at the University of Illinois
Wikipedia
History of the Language Festival of Cheboksary
Door Schedules
An example of the room schedule on the classroom door, United States, University of Illinois, it gives the course schedule for room number 1038.
