{"id":2301,"date":"2019-11-21T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2019-12-20T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:55:11","slug":"smart-coos-starts-90-day-international-mother-language-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/smart-coos-starts-90-day-international-mother-language-day-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Coos Launches 90-Day International Mother Language Day Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/\">Smart Coos&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>21st November 2018, Brooklyn, New York<\/strong>&nbsp; &#8212; In honor of International Mother Language Day (IMLD) on February 21, 2019 &#8211; Smart Coos is launching a 90-day IMLD campaign. The campaign is geared toward encouraging, supporting and spreading bilingualism and multilingualism throughout the world by both recognizing heritage speakers and embracing new language learners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2302\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2302 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Naya-Desir-Johnson-Trojan-Women-Finale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Naya-Desir-Johnson-Trojan-Women-Finale.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Naya-Desir-Johnson-Trojan-Women-Finale-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Naya-Desir-Johnson-Trojan-Women-Finale-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Naya-Desir-Johnson-Trojan-Women-Finale-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Naya-Desir-Johnson-Trojan-Women-Finale-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Naya Desir-Johnson, age 5, plays Astyanax in the multilingual adaptation of &#8220;Trojan Women&#8221; at the Jersey City Theatre. Naya speaks six languages and spoke French in the play, which featured twelve (12) languages from multilingual actors.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9289218266222230\" data-ad-slot=\"2581675933\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script>IMLD&nbsp;is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote&nbsp;awareness&nbsp;of&nbsp;linguistic&nbsp;and&nbsp;cultural diversity&nbsp;and promote&nbsp;multilingualism. First announced by&nbsp;UNESCO&nbsp;on 17 November 1999, it was formally recognized by the&nbsp;United Nations General Assembly&nbsp;in a resolution establishing 2008 as the&nbsp;International Year of Languages.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9289218266222230\" data-ad-slot=\"2581675933\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script>Throughout the month, Smart Coos will highlight and celebrate bilingual and multilingual children throughout the world. Naya Desir-Johnson, who speaks six languages and is the daughter of Smart Coos CEO Mirta Desir,&nbsp; is the face of the&nbsp;multilingual campaign &#8211; and will highlight the bilingual and multilingual children and language teachers that make a difference in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/\">Smart Coos <\/a>CEO Mirta Desir, who came up with the concept of Smart Coos because of her experience as a child immigrant to the United States from Haiti and because of the difficulty she faced trying to raise Naya to be multilingual in the United States, will also highlight the parents who are committed to raising bilingual and multilingual children in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is encouraging bilingual or multilingual&nbsp;children to highlight their language superpower by using the following hashtags &#8212;&nbsp; #IMLD #MyLanguageSuperPower&nbsp; #WhatsYourSuperPower .&nbsp; Understanding the critical role of parents &#8211; parents are encouraged to share why they are or want to raise multilingual children with the use of the following hashtags &#8212; #IMLD #MyKidsLanguageSuperPower.<\/p>\n<p>Join us in the next 90-days of celebration by following us on instagram&nbsp;@smartcoos , sharing the campaign with friends, or start on a bilingual adventure with your child today on <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/\">Smart Coos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=\"sbi_mod_error\" >\n\t\t\t<span>This error message is only visible to WordPress admins<\/span><br\/>\n\t\t\t<p><strong>Error: No feed found.<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<p>Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to create a feed.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9289218266222230\" data-ad-slot=\"2581675933\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Smart Coos&nbsp; 21st November 2018, Brooklyn, New York&nbsp; &#8212; In honor of International Mother Language Day (IMLD) on February 21, 2019 &#8211; Smart Coos is launching a 90-day IMLD campaign. 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