The President of Yarmouk University, Professor Islam Massad, inaugurated the activities of the Language Week organized by the Faculty of Arts, with the aim of increasing students' awareness of the importance of learning international languages.

Massad stressed the University's interest and constant keenness to organize the activities of the Language Week annually to increase students' awareness of communicating with others and opening up to the world, and the positive influence of this on refining their personalities, developing their skills, and preparing them optimally to enter the labor market in a way that meets their ambition and responsibility. He added that the University has provided a wide range of independent academic programs covering various international languages and has worked on developing international language packages, namely Turkish, German, French, Spanish, and Chinese, as an optional university requirement for undergraduate programs of 12 credit hours, indicating that this comes in the context of the University’s continuous efforts to update its study plans, so that it keeps pace with developments in the local, Arab, regional and international labor market. Massad then pointed to Yarmouk University's keenness to network with many internationally prestigious universities, in addition to organizing many events and activities to promote awareness of the importance of languages and their role in building a bright future.

In his turn, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Dr. Muhammad Anaqrah, indicated the interest of the Faculty of Arts in languages in line with the University's vision and interest in languages, which is evident by offering packages for some international languages as optional university requirements for some disciplines since the academic year 2022/2023, with the aim of qualifying students and providing them with language skills that contribute to achieving their hopes and aspirations.

Anaqrah pointed out that this week will include distinguished programs for each of the participating languages, introductory sessions on the importance of learning each language, explanations on the mechanism of studying each language, and how to obtain opportunities to continue studying in native speaking countries, explaining that the most important feature of this event is that it is held with the participation of embassies and cultural attachés of the concerned international countries and the active participation of students of different language departments.

Thus, the activities of the Language Week began with the activities of the Turkish Language Day, in the presence of the Director of the Turkish Cultural Institute, Yunus Emre in Amman, Ansar Furat, and the Educational Counselor at the Turkish Embassy in Amman, Hassan Kalali. The activities began with a speech by the Head of the Department of Semitic and Oriental Languages at the Faculty of Arts, Dr. Hassan Al-Zayout, in which he stressed the need for students to immerse themselves in the Turkish language, which demands that the Department, in coordination with the Turkish Cultural Center Yunus Emre, needs to increase the number of Turkish-speaking faculty members. He added that networking has been made with Turkish universities, including Osmangazi University, Anadolu University, May 19 University, Karadeniz Technical University, Istanbul Medenet University, and Yildiz Technical University, by attracting many memorandums of understanding and academic exchange agreements within the Erasmus Plus program through Yarmouk’s Department of International Relations and Projects.

For his part, Furat valued Yarmouk’s efforts in organizing the Language Week, expressing the Institute's support for the Turkish language program at the Faculty of Arts to build bridges of cooperation between the Faculty and its counterpart colleges in Turkish universities and research institutions. However, the activities of the Turkish Language Day included various student sessions, including the performance of some poems and songs in Turkish and the introduction of the most famous Turkish traditional cuisine.