Mother tongue versus “state language” in the EU

During his visit to Serbia last week, the president of Hungary, László Sólyom, made a statement saying that the state language in the countries with significant Hungarian minorities (like e.g. Romania and Slovakia) should be taught as a “foreign language”.

His recommendation was followed by some criticism, especially the reaction of the Slovak Prime minister, Róbert Fico, was inadequate, who apparently did not understand the point.

From my own experience, I would like to emphasize that everybody can have only one mother tongue. All other languages, regardless to its state language or other status, needs special approach to training – different from that one of used in mother tongue education.

We can accept it preferably in this case – being Hungarian one of the 23 EU official languages.

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