Documents pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde, 71. Monográfico dedicado a Quelles histoires et historicités du fait colonial en FLE/S (1884-1998) ? journals.openedition.org/dhfles/10681 #histlx [Info: @holltnet.bsky.social]

It’s a wrap! Many thanks to the Organisers at the University of Insubria for this year’s ICHoLLT! It’s been a great event, and a true pleasure to attend so many inspiring paper presentations!

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📣📣 New post on our website! 📣📣 Read about the invited talk given by prof. Luciana Pedrazzini (our PI) at the international seminar "A sociolinguistic historicisation of foreign language teaching" held in Barcelona on 8 January! italy-elt-archive.unimi.it/a-sociolingu...

The Makerere Report is one of those frequently cited documents that most only know indirectly (e.g. through criticism in R. Phillipson’s Linguistic Imperialism). Huge thanks to @richardsmithelt.bsky.social for making the full document available in the ELT Archive ⬇️ warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

I really like this new book by David B. Wilson for its fresh approach to the history of english language teaching via 'literary TEFLing' www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-.... You can read sample pages here: www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pd...

Journée d'étude internationale "Langues et histoire: Un dialogue interdisciplinaire" (26-27/08/2025), sur les liens entre langues et histoire, avec des perspectives croisées en sociolinguistique, anthropologie, didactique et histoire. #histlx [Info: @holltnet.bsky.social]

APPEL Colloque SIHFLES 28-29 mai 2026 (Prague) - « Nationalismes et enseignement des langues : le cas du français langue étrangère en Europe et dans le monde (1780-1950) » Soumission des résumés: [email protected] avant le 31 octobre 2025. #histlx [Info: @holltnet.bsky.social]

Oh hello! The Henry Sweet Society is now on BlueSky✨ Come one, come all!

Continúa M. Luisa De la Rosa Reimúndez (U. Complutense) hablando de la recepción del método Alge para la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras en la prensa española de inicios del XX #histlx #LinPePrensa @holltnet.bsky.social

Cierra la primera franja Mariángeles García Aranda (U. Computense) con “De nuevo sobre la prensa histórica y los métodos de enseñanza de lenguas: Pelayo Vizuete Picón y Rafael Díaz de la Cortina” #histlx #LinPePrensa @holltnet.bsky.social

Guillaume Postel's Linguarum Duodecim promises an Introduction to the alphabets of 12 languages, but can you name those printed on the title page?

A collection of Starter Packs related to languages, language learning, polyglots, linguistics, multilingualism and everything in between. If you are passionate about languages or just curious to explore, this is the space for you! #langsky 👇

Just published: _Paul Passy: Un linguiste révolutionnaire_ by Jacques Durand and Chantal Lyche @hiphilangsci.bsky.social @holltnet.bsky.social Passy (1859–1940) founded the International Phonetic Association (IPA) and was a leader of language teaching reform warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r...

Delighted that Archive on 4: Do You Speak English? is a Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Week. So many World Service gems uncovered including China’s Follow Me. Radio 4, Saturday at 20:00

Warwick ELT Archive page warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r... - information about English by TV programmes (1960s–1980s), and links to YouTube videos If you're in the UK, there is a radio documentary (11.1.25) – #DoYouSpeakEnglish? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - about BBC English by radio and TV

A new blog-post from the Warwick ELT Archive, by Yi Zhang, who, with Xi Li, has been leading in the compilation of these bibliographies and the catalogue of a developing collection of Chinese textbooks for English: blogs.warwick.ac.uk/elt_archive/...

Warwick ELT Archive December newsletter – 2024 in review! blogs.warwick.ac.uk/files/elt_ar...

Just realized I did not have an image highlighting the marginal annotations (and the worming, of course).

Who knew that practicing Latin grammar might be the key to family harmony on #Thanksgiving? Percival Leigh has helpful hints to ensure 'relatives agree' in his illustrated Comic Latin Grammar (London, 1840).

No correction feature for my big goof—I meant to say voice not tense. :-( Schoolroom scene from James Hutchinson's The Juvenile Grammar for the use of Schools and Private Families (London: Wright, Simpkin, and Co., 1859).

Anyone know how common it is to see copies of Lily's Grammar interleaved and annotated in this way? A quick search reveals a few other 17th- and 18th-century examples. @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social, any thoughts?

…struggling against knowledge-hungry moths and specters of a repeating past in Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967): "...a wise Catalonian had a bookstore where there was a Sanskrit primer, which would be eaten by the moths within six years if he did not hurry to buy it."

In HMS Surprise, Stephen has a "Fort William grammar," which I suspect is this book:

A wonderful, likely Italian, 13th-century Latin grammar fragment. The author remains unidentified, but the text reflects Priscian's influence and references Aristotelian ideas. Once part of the Marvin L. Colker Collection, it was sold at auction recently and is now in a private collection.

Pues mira, de esa misma obra. Échale un ojo a la página de Richard Hudson, xq hay cosas… 🥰

El mismo año en que se publicó el libro de Barrett, James Brown estaba cultivando su propio cactus gramatical en "An English Syntithology, Book 1" (Philadelphia: Grubb & Razer, 1845), 70.

Árboles gramaticales Barrett, S. (1845). The Principles of Grammar: Being a compendious treatise on the languages, English, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish, & French. Cambridge: Metcalf. [visto en dickhudson.com/grammar-usa/ Gracias a @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social] books.google.es/books?id=cwn...

Call for papers for a panel on “Bilingual lexicography (1500–2000): labelling, variation, and standardization”. Henry Sweet Society Colloquium, Sept 3-5 2025, Reims. Deadline for abstracts is Jan 31, 2025. hss-2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... #histlx [Info de: @holltnet.bsky.social]

If you'd like to read my 100-page thesis about Esperanto and its political history, check it out here! griffinbassett.com/wp-content/u...

Galí, A. (1931). Lliçons de llenguatge. Primer grau. Segona Part. Barcelona: Editorial Pedagògica de l’Associació Protectora de l’Ensenyança Catalana, p. 7 #HistoriaGramaticaEscolar #HistoryTeachingGrammar #histlx #lingüística

Visualizing prepositions (1668). From John Wilkins’ An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (London). Iterations and copies of this innovative diagram have appeared throughout the ages, but Wilkins appears to be the point of origin. Some variations to follow in this thread.

Writing is not easy. In mid 10th century Florentius, a scribe, had some really good thoughts about it: "Those who know nothing of writing do not appreciate this work very much. You want to know how hard it is? Your sight grows dim, you hunch, your ribs and belly break 1/ 🧵

I'm delighted to say that my new book is now available for free download (or hard copy purchase) from UCL Press: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/233... A huge thank you to everyone who supported this project along the way.

Excited to see more archives joining Bluesky! If you want more archival content in your feed try out these recent arrivals: @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social @burnslibrary.bsky.social @scotsarchives.bsky.social (more at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2 )

Well, it is the eight century and there is no Duolingo owl in sight. But you are an insular scribe in Germany and you just need to learn the language of the locals. Do a career abroad they said! Well, only an old school Latin / Old High German phrasebook is gonna save you. 1/

Also, for those interested in translation, bilingual manuscripts and humanist literature, I’d like to share my recent article in the Journal of Early Modern History too. It is about the nexus between Ali Ufki, Antoine Galland, and François Rabelais: brill.com/view/journal...

#HerBook This 15th-century Latin-Dutch-French glossary contains #provenance marks made by women: Mariken Buyens and Lisken Stevens wrote their names on the flyleaves of the manuscript! #bookhistory #rarebooks

Just published online and open access: my article on the seventeenth-century celebrity language teacher Claude Mauger (and his books, students, and readers) in Early Modern French Studies. I'm on the bus so let's have a 🧵! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Will be being annoying about this one for a while. I'd love to see it read by people working on histories of the book, reading, annotation, marginalia (as well as education and language) -- I try to use lots of surviving copies of Mauger to think about who read him and how.

I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded. You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout. go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj

Bonsoir à tous! I created a French/Francophone history Starter Pack (with some lit/culture France, Haiti && folks too) to help find people in the @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchcolonial.bsky.social @jwsfh.bsky.social communities & nos collègues en France. If I forgot you, please 👋 go.bsky.app/Uf5.5iT

Just created a starter pack for people interested in early modern women! Somewhat random and definitely incomplete, so please suggest more people to add (including yourself) go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt

Grammar dresses for success in Buno's book for Latin learners (Gdańsk, 1651). Copy at SUB Göttingen: gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN581778...

Alphabets: Hebrew, Greek, and Runic from the Vademecum of Walahfrid Strabo (ca. 808 CE-849 CE), Abbot of Reichenau. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 878; Vademecum of Walahfrid Strabo; between about 825 CE & 849 CE; Reichenau; pp.320-321 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

First acq of book fair week from the fair itself: 2 issues of ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ / Cherokee Phoenix. Printed in New Echota, Georgia, this is the 1st newspaper printed in the U.S. in an indigenous language. Joins several other early examples of the Cherokee syllabary in our holdings. Now BPL pb.2023.76.

One of the interesting features of Galmace’s grammar, is the inclusion of a parallel Spanish phonetic transcription, accompanying the parallel Spanish and French translations throughout the book.

Fun typography, and perhaps a little more effort on the press to render this nice little acrostic sonnet in Galmace’s French grammar in Spanish (Paris, 1753).

A fir also found in George Isaac Huntingford’s “An introduction to the writing of Greek” (Oxford: at the University Press, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806). @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social copy. solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44...