*Official 🇪🇺 EU language 🇪🇺 since...*   *1958:* Dutch, French, German, Italian *1973:* Danish, English *1981:* Greek *1986:* Portuguese, Spanish *1995:* Finnish, Swedish *2004:* Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian *2007:* Bulgarian, Irish, Romanian *2013:* Croatian   On _*International Mother Language Day,*_ let's celebrate the linguistic diversity at the 💙 heart of the EU! ✨ 📖   In the European Parliament, a team of translators and interpreters make sure that everyone can understand each other 🤝    MEPs can speak in any EU official language and interpreters translate simultaneously so that they can be understood all across Europe.   Translators make sure that you can read important information, from laws to websites, in 24 languages 🇪🇺   _🔈 Our colleague Shannon from Parliament's translation service shares what her job is like. Have a listen! 👇_   *How many of these languages do you speak?*   😂 Just one ❤️ I speak 2 to 3 👍 I can communicate in 4 of them 😯 5 or more!