The organiser of a new multilingual family festival coming to Bournemouth hopes that it will help more children and adults take up languages.

World of Love festival, which will be held at King’s Park in Boscombe on Sunday, September 22 for 11am to 4pm, will provide families with taster sessions and demonstrations of different language while showcasing diverse cultures from around the world.

Bea Sieradzka, the founder of the event, hosted her initial pilot event back in March where close to a thousand people came to learn about different language. For her upcoming event, she hopes to double the number of visitors and have more languages on offer.

She said: “We held our first event in March was more popular than I expected.

“At the next event, we are looking to have more languages, lot of artists who will singing and dancing and different community groups and languages schools showing what they have to offer.”

With recent studies by the European Commission show that Britons are the worst language learners in Europe and the number of students studying languages at A-level down by a third in the last 10 years,

Bea, who studied linguistics in Poland, hopes that the event will not only open people’s eyes to the variety of languages out there and where they can learn them, but help encourage children in particular to learn new languages whilst they are still young.

Bea continues: “British school children do not want to learn languages as they think it is too difficult to learn. This is because they aren’t being introduced to languages early enough in their physical development.

“British school kids start properly learning different languages in secondary school and are given the option to learn languages when they are 14 or 15 which is far too late in their lives.”

With activities and showcases for the whole family, the event will give the opportunity for parents and children to learn together in a fun and interactive way.