Emirates Highlights Its Linguistic Diversity Onboard On UNESCO International Mother Language Day
Sunday 19th of February 2023
In light of UNESCO International Mother Language Day, Emirates is highlighting its linguistic diversity onboard, ranging from its multicultural cabin crew to its extensive library of in-language selections available on the airline’s inflight entertainment system, ice. The UNESCO Mother Language Day falls on the 21st of February of each year and aims to emphasize the importance of cultural and linguistic diversity for the establishment of sustainable societies.
Emirates exclusive cabin crews hail from various multicultural backgrounds and can speak a vast array of languages on board every flight. During the hiring process, Emirates pays special attention to select cabin crews who are multilingual in accordance with their signature hospitality style of communicating with passengers in their own language. As a result, cabin crews recruited from over 130 countries worldwide can together combine to speak more than 70 languages.
Onboard, passengers from different language-speaking regions can make use of the broad content available across 40 languages on Emirate’s award-winning inflight entertainment system, ice. The acclaimed library features everything from movies to TV series, music, poetry and podcasts, and caters to languages such as English, Arabic, Hindi, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, German, Mandarin and much more. Moreover, boxsets or hit TV series are also offered on-demand while also making space for smash-hit English Language comedy and drama series with dubbed versions available in a plethora of other languages.
For music lovers, ice will leave passengers spoiled for choice with up to 40,000 hit songs dispersed across various genres. This includes K-pop (Korean), Afrobeat (Yoruba, isiZulu etc.), Reggaeton (Spanish) and Opera (French, Italian etc.) among others. Additionally, passengers can also spend the flight hours away by listening to soulful tunes from other languages such as Russian, Urdu, Malay, Thai and Turkish to name a few.
Alongside these, passengers can also brush up on their language skills before landing at their next destination by plugging into uTalk Language Learning on ice TV. Here, guests will be enlightened on essential phrases of a new language which is currently available in Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, German and French. The Emirates website supports a myriad of languages too with 28 different languages reached via a simple click. All information of every kind will be available in the chosen language and the Emirates App for iOS and Android also accommodates 19 various languages.
