Job opportunity for translator specialising in translating from an endangered language into English, in any genre. The endangered language can belong to oral or semi-oral traditions, collaborative or community-based practices, and non-standardised forms. www.wasafiri.org/news-and-eve... #langsky

It’s Sunday and the world is burning, but you can’t fight if you’re burned out, so take care of yourself. Read. Create. Check on your friends and family. Spend time with your pet. Go for a walk. Watch a movie. Eat tacos. Hope you have a good one.

Abhorrent islamophobia from Reform UK, and as usual linguistic diversity is painted as un-British. We are all free to express ourselves in whichever language we please: shock, horror, "The signs are written in a different language"! #hatespeech #lingsky #multilingual share.google/9zKXeZTVQoaq...

Gĩkũyũ word of the day: "ngarĩ" (meaning leopard in English). According to the Rebel Girls book about the late Kenyan activist Dr Wangarĩ Maathai, Wa-ngarĩ means "belonging to the leopard". Gĩkũyũ is a tonal language spoken by over 4 million people in Kenya. #Gĩkũyũ #Bantu #Kenya #langsky

! Murcia Today - Spain Decides Spanish Is Too Hard, Makes English Official Language share.google/WXmXiThI8EXj... #Langsky #España

New article from me today about the new study of Finland's basic income experiment that found recipients of unconditional income had 33% better mental health than the control group that got the same amount of money with conditions. I also dive into a lot of other evidence about UBI and mental health

My 5 y.o. asking a family member, in English : "What Greek word is the same in French?" Received the answer : "McDonald's!" 🤣 Of course, he was hoping to elicit the word κακά / caca... C'est kif-kif! 🤣 #translanguaging #langsky #Greek #French #English #humour

Please support staff at the university of Essex, who are at risk of massive redundancy in particular in my former department of Language and Linguistics, by sharing this letter and writing to your MP to express concern if you live in any of the constituencies near the University. #Essex #HE #Lingsky

📣We're launching the MCCRA research workshop series! 🎓The inaugural talk, 27 January at 2pm UK time, will be by Prof. Kristian Gleditsch. ✏️Sign up below to get invited to our monthly online research talks on armed conflict and/or language in African countries. forms.office.com/e/k16YaHVH1U

📯 Babel No53 is online now! Trinidadian English Creole, Estonian humour, the roots of fruits, and much more 🖥️ Digital subscribers can read on at: cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/... ✉️ Print copies will be posted out through December 🏪 Subscribe at babelzine.co.uk

Guess which historical figure learnt ancient and modern languages? Part of a festive trail at the Queen's House, in Greenwich. Merci, Royal Museums Greenwich, for highlighting language learning as a human endeavour throughout the ages!👏🏻 #Langsky #mfl #ancientlanguages #history #Greenwich #UK #quiz

Allez, on fait monter l'aïoli! 🔥 #Provençal #France #langsky #mfl

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.

🔊 Denise Amankwah (University of Essex): 'The Languages we Keep: African Parents’ Perspectives on Heritage Language Maintenance in the UK' 📅 Thursday 04 December 2025, 12-1 pm 💻 lnkd.in/eZKHWecX #multilingualism #UK #lingsky #langsky #Africa

Today, I receptioned (also a gallicism!) a pair of snow mittens & briefly thought of them as "muffles" (-> French "moufles")! 🤣 Am I in bilingual mode, translanguaging or just sleep-deprived? This after a morning of writing in English, whereas snow is very much in my French domain, QED mash-up! ❄️

Our @education.ox.ac.uk Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

"The discussions or reflections that books inspire can change lives for the better. I know because I’ve seen it." Author Nathanael Lessore believes fiction can play a big role in supporting positive attitudes to boyhood and masculinity. Here's how 👇 https://bit.ly/3JqsAug

📣 PhD studentships for UK/Home students: research interests inc. English Linguistics! At least one studentship at @mybcu.bsky.social will be dedicated to a candidate from a *Global Majority background*. Apply by 27/01/26👇🏻 www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #linguistics #BAME #PhD

Most large language models today speak only a handful of the world’s 7,000+ languages. Across Africa, researchers & technologists are tackling this imbalance head-on — collecting ethically sourced, high-quality speech data & building AI that understands African languages. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3689x8bu

The Voiced festival went out with a bang of #multilingual #poetry last night! We heard extraordinary performances in Spanish, Finnish, Galician, French, German, Scots, an endangered language from the Philippines, Dutch, English & more, before joining voices on 'The silence ends', by John Farndon 👏🏻

"Graffiti is the language of the unheard". A great project inviting marginalised groups to dialogue with the church. Canterbury Cathedral installation, from 17 Oct. (Not sure why BBC focused on a foreign politician's diatribe) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #graffiti #church #art #Canterbury

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood: "If you come to this country, you must learn our language and play your part." What if they speak Welsh, Gaelic, Scots, Irish, Ulster Scots or Cornish? Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK - BBC News share.google/bYp1cjhiE40l... #lingsky

Banned books staircase created by Gary M. Herd / Kraken Studios. Newport Public Library.

In his new Welsh-language album Dim Probs, Gruff Rhys - frontman of Super Furry Animals - celebrates the beauty, humour, and resilience of his first language. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... TLDR 👇 #langsky #linguistics #Cymraeg #Welsh #Welshlanguage

🗓️ 29 October 2025: Modern Poetry in Translation at 60 | Southbank Centre. Readings and reflections on poems featured in the magazine during this turbulent period in world history, alongside new poems from Gaza. share.google/P2Tn273AkPGe... #poetry #translation #Gaza #London

How great is the title of this book? My book chapter: 'Revisiting the Australian literacy wars: Authorial stance in shaping contemporary educational strategies.' Sneak peek ahead of publication. www.google.com.au/books/editio...

"the feuding families at the centre of the drama are divided in this retelling by language, with the Capulets speaking English and the Montagues Cymraeg. It means the way the lovers communicate and grow to understand each other is all the more charged." #Welsh #Cymraeg #BilingualTheatre #Langsky

For the first time in history, Cymraeg (the Welsh language) will echo through Shakespeare's Globe — in a groundbreaking bilingual production of Romeo a Juliet by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yhw22wua TLDR 👇 #langsky #linguistics #Cymraeg #Welsh #Welshlanguage #Shakespeare

In the latest Child Lang. Bulletin, we introduced IASCL's Repository of Research Papers on Underrepresented Languages, a resource designed for easy access and sharing of research on the acquisition of children learning underrepresented languages. Read more here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

Diminishing numbers of international students at our university courses is definitely not a good thing for HE revenue, not good for diverse skill development & not good for the richness of the experience UK universities offer to all students. Bad on all accounts except keeping the racists happy.

🗓️ Sunday 11 October (4-6 pm), discover Zulu storytelling traditions such as the kwasukasukela/chosi call and response, and beadwork poetics, in this workshop with Nomakhwezi Becker @barbicancentre.bsky.social! www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... #poetry #Zulu #SouthAfrica #London #langsky #home

🗓️ Voiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages @barbicancentre.bsky.social, events exploring literature in minoritised languages & dialects, celebrating multilingual identities! (16-18 Oct, London) Book here👇🏻 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... #langsky #london #poetry #literature #multilingualism

🗓️ Sunday 11 October 2025 @barbicancentre.bsky.social: "explore selected texts together and contribute (your) own poems, languages or reflections" in this multilingual poetry workshop! www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... #poetry #lingsky #langsky #multilingualism #London

Lou Sarabadzic: In the UK they exulted. Princess Charlotte is already bilingual. Aw that’s so cute but what about the cuteness of Punjabi? I asked myself. My young neighbour is trilingual and I didn’t see rushing to the area any national news agency. #NationalPoetryDay share.google/x6xX80f6omme...

The Welsh government is asking for help in Welshifying online maps datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

A fascinating new piece in @theconversation.com Dr Mark W Post explores how linguists have traced thousands of modern words back to Proto-Indo-European (PIE) – a language spoken up to 8,000 years ago but never written down. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yhmhnaee TLDR 👇 #langsky #etymology #protoindoeuropean

Lots of great recommendations to follow up here. In the picture book category, I can thoroughly endorse "Boy" and "Dancing Hands", tried and very much enjoyed by my little one! #DeafAwarenessMonth #Books #ReadingTogether #Inclusion #RepresentationMatters #EnglishBooks

🗓️ 20 Oct (free, online, 4-5 pm UK): The multilingual poetry project: children’s languages in the classroom. Lessons from an infant school on bringing #multilingualism into everyday teaching! #education #EDI #lingsky #schools #poetry #langsky #inclusion www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-multil...

Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap

A jarring translation (for me) in the surtitles at the opera tonight. Tosca the "sirena" is a "temptress", rather than a siren. Why impoverish the text by eliminating all figurative language? Siren is so much more evocative! #translation #Italian #libretto #Puccini #opera

Today's language exchange: a 6y.o. girl at my son's school taught us how to say "O dabọ", which means goodbye in Yoruba. #EuropeanDayOfLanguages #Yoruba #langsky #London #multilingualism #LanguagesMatter

Happy European Day of Languages! I'll be sharing posts throughout the day to celebrate, starting with the amazing collaboration with Twinkl for #Sheffield City of #Languages. Free resources for teachers and schools, celebrating multilingualism! www.twinkl.co.uk/l/iij38 @sheffielduni.bsky.social

📚This Saturday @britishlibrary.bsky.social: festival showcasing literature from Africa, the Caribbean and the global diaspora. Inc. sessions on 'Language as Ancestry & Power', and 'How We Remember: Loss, Ritual and Language': events.bl.uk/events/words... #Langsky #BlackBritishEnglish #Patois

Re-upping this, as we've extended the submission deadline for proposals! Especially calling all linguists to also contribute to the event :-) Deadline 5 October for submissions to the conference on 12 December. But also welcome to join us for the symposium on 11 December. lifespan.unamur.be

Free monthly British Sign Language Café sessions at the University of Glasgow! 👇🏻 #BSL #Langsky #Glasgow #InternationalSignLanguageDay

This plate depicting the BSL alphabet dates from a time when sign language wasn't taught in schools and shows the importance of the Deaf community being able to express themselves. #InternationalSignLanguageDay  📸 MN0221.16 Plate, Cambridge, c1913-25 🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/575227

Great to present about Researcher wellbeing in research at the Language & Trauma workshop hosted by @jupurkarthofer.bsky.social & B. Busch today! We need cultural change to prevent, identify & address vicarious traumatisation. Skinner et al (2025) propose a useful framework👇🏻#research #ethics #trauma

Historically, the word 'nest' consists of two parts. The part 'ne-' is related to 'nether', while '-st' is related to 'sit'. The distant ancestor of 'nest' meant "place to sit down". 'Nest' is also related to Spanish 'nido' and its Romance relatives. Click my new graphic to learn more:

"trained professionals, such as police (...) are tasked with identifying potential victims of modern slavery (...). It often takes time for victims to disclose their exploitation because trauma, fear and control by traffickers run deep" share.google/1XLzgaS9qObf... #lingsky #trauma #HumanRights