ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAY 2020

About:

• English is one of the two working languages of the UN, along with French. It has also become the lingua franca of international relations.
  
  
• English Language Day at the UN is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare.
  
  
• The Day is the result of a 2010 initiative by the Department of Global Communications, establishing language days for each of the Organization's six official languages. The days are as follows:
  • Arabic (18 December)
    
    
  • Chinese (20 April)
    
    
  • English (23 April)
    
    
  • French (20 March)
    
    
  • Russian (6 June)
    
    
  • Spanish (23 April)