CINCO – co-operantion in intercomprehension

CINCO – co-operantion in intercomprehension

 "A Europe of polyglots is not a Europe of people who speak many languages fluently, but, in the best case scenario, of people who can communicate, each speaking his own language and understanding that of the other, but who, while not being able to speak it fluently, by understanding it, even with difficulty, would understand the "spirit", the cultural universe that every one expresses when speaking the language of his ancestors and of his own tradition." - Umberto Eco, In Search of the Perfect Language

IFOA is one of the Italian partners involved in the CINCO project, leaded by the Catholic University of Viseu, Portugal, where this adventure about intercomprehension has just started.

With this method of language learning, effort is concentrated on the skills of receiving the foreign language (reading, listening) and the skills of producing a foreign language (speaking, writing) are a secondary consideration. Intercomprehension can therefore be summarised as: "I understand other people's languages, without being able to speak them. This is why, when I communicate with them, I
speak to them in my language and I understand theirs".

Info

IFOA – EU Projects
Ref. Davide Orlandini
Tel +39 522 329138
Email eulinks@ifoa.it