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Dialog pokoleń w dialogu języków: UW conference closes pupils' dialect project
A scientific and methodological conference at the University of Warsaw (UW) on 20–21 October summed up a project in which pupils from three counties recorded local dialect and older residents' stories.
Why it matters: Pupils from the Bielsko, Cieszyn and Żywiec counties who documented local dialect had their project summed up at a University of Warsaw conference.
The University of Warsaw reported that pupils from the Bielsko, Cieszyn and Żywiec counties took part in a project called Dialog pokoleń w dialogu języków (A dialogue of generations in a dialogue of languages).
According to the university, the pupils recorded dialect vocabulary and gathered stories from the older generation while looking for ways to keep local speech and traditions from being forgotten.
A scientific and methodological conference summing up the project took place at the University of Warsaw on 20 and 21 October, the university said.
Editor’s view
Abigail Taylor, Leadership and Governance Editor
The pupils from the Bielsko, Cieszyn and Żywiec counties who collected dialect vocabulary and older residents' stories had their work summed up at the two-day University of Warsaw conference held on 20–21 October.
