“The annual European Day of Languages will take place on Monday 26 September. With hundreds of activities taking place throughout Europe, this year’s event will demonstrate the creative ways in which languages can be learned. It will be a celebration of Europe’s linguistic diversity and a major part of the campaign to encourage more language learning across the continent.”

We are happy to see that forvo.com is growing and helping people to how to pronounce languages, not only this day but every day.

Visit europa.eu site for more information and check your local information because there are related events in Europe´s major cities.

A great article about Forvo in General Anzeiger (german required).

For those who like numbers and figures:

English: 8187 pronunciations; portuguese: 5136; spanish: 4653; german: 4342; catalan: 2749; italian: 1268; french: 1126; farsi: 796; finnish: 756; … and we could go on until the 83th language which has at least one pronunciation, Oshiwambo.

We are sincerely amazed by these numbers in only our first 5 months online, so thank you very much everyone!

Forvo is growing fast so we had to upgrade to a new server. Maybe you have noticed some interruptions or slow connections to forvo in the past weeks. We are sorry about that and we hope to give a better service at the new location.