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Dawn Bowes, our senior account manager, celebrated last Friday's European Day of Languages with a visit to Carlton in Snaith Community School.
She taught 160 children (and their parents) to count from one to ten in a language where "one, two" sounds just like "itchy, knee". Our question for readers of this blog is: what was the language?
As vice-president of the Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, Carolyn Burgess (who's also our chief exec) has visited Michael James Opticians in Goole to support a two-day fundraising event for the Alzheimer's Society.
Our photo shows (from right) Carolyn with Karen Haase (from Michael James Opticians), the elephant mascot and Gill Allatt (both from the Alzheimer's Society).
Meanwhile, in other news, Carolyn has chaired a Chamber of Commerce/Environment Agency seminar on the business risks of flooding. The article below is from the Hull Daily Mail.
In the latest of our regular series, here are ten things you (probably) didn't know about the World Trade Centre Hull & Humber.
1. The World Trade Centre Hull & Humber is part of a network of 302 World Trade Centres in 91 countries.
2. What is a World Trade Centre? "What makes us so special is that we know people who know people everywhere," says Ousama Ghannoum of the WTC Abu Dhabi.
3. The World Trade Centre Hull & Humber brings a wide range of expertise under one roof: its partners include UK Trade & Investment, the University of Hull and Yorkshire Forward.
4. The WTC movement began in 1970 with four 'pioneer' World Trade Centres in Houston, New Orleans, New York and Tokyo.
5. The World Trade Centre Hull & Humber is a hub for companies large and small — it's a place to meet, network, learn and do business.
6. When President FW de Klerk sat down for talks with Nelson Mandela in 1990, the two men chose the only neutral venue they could agree on: the World Trade Centre Johannesburg.
7. Language is Everything became an official partner of the World Trade Centre Hull & Humber in June 2008. (You can read more about this here.)
8. Today, the World Trade Centre network extends to such unlikely cities as Havana, Kabul and Pyongyang.
9. The World Trade Centre Hull & Humber offers state-of-the-art meeting and conference facilities, from its business lounge to its hot-desking area.
10. The founder of the World Trade Centres Association, Guy Tozzoli, has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize by, among others, Mikhail Gorbachev.
Coming up this month: 26th September is the 8th European Day of Languages, an annual event organised by the Council of Europe. The aim of the day is to celebrate linguistic diversity, plurilingualism and lifelong language learning. You can find out more here.
This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which is designed to protect and promote regional and minority languages.
2008 is also the UNESCO International Year of Languages, part of a campaign to promote and protect all languages, particularly endangered languages. You can read more about UNESCO's work here.