Richard West-Soley

Polyglossic Eurovison 2025 is done and dusted, and it's another good one for songs sung in national languages. Here's how they fared!

Eurovision's done and dusted - and it was another good one for language diversity! 🌍🎤💬

www.polyglossic.com/eurovision-2...

18.05.2025 13:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Word of the Day is ‘hunch-weather’ (19th century): weather so cold it makes you hunch your shoulders when you walk outside.

04.01.2025 09:20 — 👍 3384    🔁 516    💬 76    📌 34

Dystopia warning: Reading Preparedness Booklets for Language Learning - Polyglossic Prepping is all the rage these days, with alarming news at every turn. The free reading materials it generates are gold for your languages!

In a world of alarming news, you can still turn the negative into a #LanguageLearning positive! This week, I take a look at Preparedness Booklets from target language countries, and how these make for great free reading material. www.polyglossic.com/preparedness... #langsky #languages #mfl

22.12.2024 10:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Some 1890 jokes from the Staffordshire Chronicle. I don't think they've aged very well. Still, keeps the research amusing! Stand-up comics, feel free to repurpose them 😅

21.11.2024 18:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

As if on cue, some more research showing how enriching a range of linguistic varieties is in early years. Engaging with diversity in the classroom isn’t just fascinating - it’s good for the kids. #mfl #language #mfltwitterati

21.11.2024 12:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very proud of our little Linguascope family for taking a stand. Let’s make Bluesky feel like home! 🏡

21.11.2024 11:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Déjà Blue - the act of putting out your best tweets all over again on Bluesky

18.11.2024 12:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th”

When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

17.11.2024 15:28 — 👍 7116    🔁 2136    💬 130    📌 117

Just settling down ready to enjoy the weekly cure to all the world’s ills #Strictly 💃🕺🏾

16.11.2024 17:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm a coffee person, but if my coffee looks like B I'm happy. 4B for me!

15.11.2024 16:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I usually give #JuniorEurovision a miss, but Ireland has a cracker of a song this year. Go n-éiri leat i Maidrid Enya! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zenh...

11.11.2024 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0