International Mother Language Day

The students represented their countries and spoke their mother tongue. In the cosy hall of the event cafe, the evening started with the story ‘My Belarus’ by Adina Shtukina, a student of the Faculty of Finance and Economics.

The evening was continued by Stanislav Zhukov and Danila Zybunov, students of the Faculty of Information Technologies from Latvia. The participants presented their favourite streets of Riga, where they like to walk when they are at home, and introduced the architecture of Ventspils, Daugavpils, Jurmala, Liepaja and Jelgava.

The national food of Uzbekistan is so closely bound up with customs and traditions that you realise that there is no point in telling, it is worth seeing and, even better, tasting. This is the opinion of Bobur Miryokubov, Davron Kadirov and Kamoliddin Makhmudov, students of the Faculty of Finance and Economics. The students prepared a video and introduced the participants of the evening to the ‘magnificent ten’ national dishes of the Uzbek cuisine, which are definitely worth tasting to feel the gastronomic beauty and national traditions of their homeland.

All participants had an unforgettable culinary journey: pilaf, kazan-kabob, samsa, shish kebab, manty, lagman, shurpa, dymlyama, mashkhurda, naryn. On parting, the students agreed to meet at a masterclass on the national cuisine of Uzbekistan.

On February 22, Belarusian and foreign students from Russia, Uzbekistan, China, Serbia, Cameroon met in the assembly hall of dormitory No. 6. For the evening dedicated to the International Mother Language Day, the participants prepared an interactive programme ‘My Mother Language’. On a special stand they placed words in their native language that are significant for them.

Students prepared and performed poems in the national language of their countries. Parvina Idieva, a student of the Faculty of Finance and Economics, performed a poem of her own writing called ‘Father’. She said that no matter how far she is from home, she always feels the warmth of her relatives and friends.

Kateryna Letyago and Victoria Ledinskaya, students of the Faculty of Law, showed initiative and creativity by organising a quiz ‘Mother Language Day’. The game participants not only had fun, but also actively learnt new words in Belarusian. They had to read the words correctly, make a translation, guess the names of objects from the pictures. People of different cultures and nationalities were united in a friendly atmosphere.