languages — a cultural and educational event on languages and linguistics, designed for the general public.The festival professionals and natural language speakers share their knowledge with the interested public in the format of short (30 -, 40 — or 50-minute) lessons presentations. Presentations are parallel, so that there is always a choice, to submit to any language. For each day of the festival usually can see the six languages.Festival stimulates interest in the study of foreign languages (including unusual — such as Greek or Estonian) and the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation (in different years were presented Bashkir, Nogai, Ossetian, Tatar, Tuva, Udmurt, Chuvash, Erza, and others) , has respect for different peoples of the world, St. Petersburg involves a cross-cultural dialogue on the principles of equality and tolerance.The world's first festival of languages held in 1995 in the French Tour. As early as next year, a similar pattern was the first Russian festival of languages in Cheboksary (1996).The most popular in Russia festival of languages remains Cheboksary, representing a year in November more than 40 languages and collecting more than a thousand people interested in languages. Such festivals are regularly held in Volgograd, Kiev, Moscow, Odessa, Ulyanovsk and other cities of the CIS. In 2008, the Chinese city of Nanjing festival of languages gathered 13,000 participants.
