On Saturday 27th of May, the city culture was celebrated for the 9th time in Reykjavík on the annual Multicultural Day.The mayor launched the festival with a parade from the cathedral Hallgrímskirkja to the concert and conference hall Harpa. The multicultural market at Harpa was from 2:00–5:00PM. There were exhibitions of various crafts, designs, foods …
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Spring events 2017
This spring has been full of both traditional and unique events. Representatives of Móðurmál have introduced and presented the work of Móðurmál at the Multicultural Congress Let’s Talk on March 25th, where they had a chance to talk with professionals and passers-by. Approximately 17.000 immigrants from more than twenty countries live in Reykjavík who speak …
Language and Nature: Móðurmál’s environmental project 2016/2017
For the first time in Móðurmál’s twenty-year-old history, groups work together on a common project for a whole year! Parents of bilingual children work hard to prepare them for the future that will entail using their languages and cherishing connections to all countries where their parents come from and where their extended families still live. …
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International Mother Language Day: 21st February
Grófin Culture House traditionally prepared a program for plurilingual children and invited Móðurmál to introduce our program and activities. We celebrated the International Mother Language Day by inviting children and their families to write letters in their own mother language to a relative or a friend, whether they live in Svalbard, Siglufjörður or Senegal. Easy …
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Móðurmálskennsla í fjarnámi hafin
On February 2nd 2017, three Móðurmál teachers started teaching mother tongues at a distance through a partner organisation Kara connect ehf Students in Stóru-Vogaskóla on all school levels learn their mother tongues, Russian, Tagalog and Thai. The school received a grant to provide mother–tongue instruction to their students, and both parents and children are very happy with this …
Ráðstefna “Beautiful Languages: Successful and Sustainable”
Dagana 18.–19. nóvember stóð Móðurmál fyrir ráðstefnu fyrir móðurmálskennara og áhugasama kennara og uppalendur. Aðalfyrirlesari var Prof. Olenka Bilash frá Háskóla í Alberta, Kanada. Ráðstefna átti sér stað í Menningarmiðstöð Gerðubergi í Reykjavík og var styrkt úr Þróunarsjóði innflytjendamála.Á dagskrá var meðal annars árangursrík reynsla tveggja þýska og japanska móðurmálshóps, frásögn litháíska og spænska hóp …
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Móðurmál researches natural and language resources
Móðurmál has a common project for the school year 2016/17. It involves work with environmental terms and environmental issues. The goal is to increase children’s awareness of their environment, to put it into context with their connections with their parents’ countries of origin and to use their mother tongue knowledge at the same time. Work …
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Beautiful Languages: Móðurmál Conference 18th and 19th November 2016
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School year started & AGM
Most Móðurmál groups started teaching on Saturday 10 September. For the first time, three groups are using Hólabrekkuskóli in Breiðholt, thanks to the cooperation of Móðurmál with the Reykjavík City School Department (Skóla-og frístundasvið Reykjavíkurborgar). Móðurmál groups will cooperate on the environmental project “Móðurmál rannsakar náttúru– og tungumálaauðlindir” in which children will work with environmental …
Móðurmál Teacher Party 🎉 yesterday!
Awesome teachers, great laughs, a variety of foods and a beautiful walk in nature. Takk fyrir okkur! ❤️