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What is the A to Z of languages and careers and activities?In 2005 CILT created 26 characters (one for each letter of the alphabet), who would help celebrate the Day. Each character used a different language in a different job, for example, the nurse who spoke Norwegian, the photographer learning Polish and the call centre operator saying hello in Chinese. With the whole alphabet to be represented there were some more unusual careers too, including a Urdu-speaking unicyclist and an astronomer who speaks Arabic. These fun characters also send an important message about the practical benefits of languages in the world of work and make more learners aware of the increasingly wide range of opportunities for people with language skills, however basic. These original 26 characters were found on all the 2005 EDL resources, including postermags, stickers, postcards, T-shirts and wallpapers, some of which can be downloaded. So popular were the characters in 2005 that we decided to feature them again this year and you'll find them on the EDL postergame. This year's resources feature 26 new characters each with a favourite activity that they can do in a different languages. You can see one of these at the top of this page, DJ-ing in Dutch. Look out for the Latvian-speaking limbo dancer and the characters fencing in French and cooking in Chinese. The 2006 characters featured on many of the EDL resources, including the postergames, button badges and T-shirts. We'd be very interested to find out how many languages are spoken in your school, college, organisation, company or community. So why not take the A to Z languages challenge and see if you can say hello in a different language for every letter of the alphabet?
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