Awakening to languages in primary school

This article reports on the Slovene share in the European project called Janua Linguarum—The Gateway to Languages. It highlights its forerunners and its outcomes, and gives an illustrative example of how primary school students encounter and explore various languages by using a relatively novel, plurilingual approach. All the materials produced as part of this project were trialled in class, and the feedback from students, their parents, and teachers has been extremely favourable. An attempt will also be made to put the Slovene evaluation into the wider context of the European project.