Off to see @lenniesaurus.bsky.social at @waywordabdn.bsky.social today, followed by @damianbarr.bsky.social . A fine way to spend a Sunday.
05.10.2025 09:59 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Community Engagement and Intercultural Sensitivity: Ethics, Design and Practice
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29.09.2025 10:48 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Looking forward!
20.09.2025 15:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This Sunday, 11β4 in Aberdeen, Discovery Day is back π. A full day of free family fun awaits β explore Ice Age adventures, see rockets launch, enjoy light shows, and meet a Marie Curie living statue.
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12.09.2025 12:01 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
What can you do with languages? Open doors to new worlds.
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06.09.2025 09:54 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Get ready for an exciting September with Explorathon 2025! π
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12.08.2025 12:41 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Lost in translation
Even in the language app era there are benefits to learning a foreign tongue
β2023 polling for the @britishacademy.bsky.social found 71 per cent of Britons would support making language study compulsory in schools.β
Pleased to see this FT editorial makes the case for learning foreign languages
on.ft.com/4mP3rrf
16.08.2025 11:15 β π 44 π 23 π¬ 2 π 1
Hi, I'm a translator who works for a United Nations agency. As you know, every country needs trained multilinguals & it's impossible to become fluent in a language via ChatGPT. Or DuoLingo. Or Zoom classes. Fluency in a language requires immersion in its grammar & vocabulary, its history & culture.
13.08.2025 20:38 β π 478 π 32 π¬ 2 π 1
Matt Frei on LBC UK - Catch Up | Global Player
Catch up on the last 7 days of shows from Matt Frei on LBC UK
Was pleased to represent @ucflangs.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk today in conversation with Matt Frei about the crisis for languages & their importance for global Britain, following the @hepi-news.bsky.social report by Megan Bowler. Listen at c.10.50am: www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
02.08.2025 11:47 β π 10 π 6 π¬ 1 π 1
Listen below to our @ucflangs.bsky.social Chair
@emmacayley.bsky.social, in conversation with Matt Frei
from LBC News, discussing a recent @hepi-news.bsky.social report on the current crisis in language learning in the UK and the urgent need to address this at policy level ππΌ
02.08.2025 17:05 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
We are Tall Ships ready! Come and join us in the Discovery Zone to discover Seaspeak and Aberdeenβs many languages. Find out how Doric is linked to the languages of our North Sea neighbours and explore our exhibit about local multilingualism! #TallShips @aberdeenuni @UoA_LLMVC
20.07.2025 08:23 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π£Important podcast on the value of speaking other languages π
The conversation looks at how the languages we speak influence how we think & affect how we relate to others. It explores how multilingualism can foster social cohesion, support cognitive flexibility, & even boost economic opportunities.
17.07.2025 13:07 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
A wonderful day of collegiality and sharing good practice for the @ucflangs.bsky.social Summer Plenary in the splendid surroundings of the @ilcs.bsky.social Spreading the good news about languages & optimism for our collective future. Thanks to our speakers and to all who made the effort to attend π
04.07.2025 18:35 β π 14 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Our @ucflangs.bsky.social Summer Plenary today has a range of crucially important panels on current developments in languages provision in HE.
First up: David Clarke (Cardiff University) & Derek Hird (Lancaster University) on Modern Languages in a Global Humanities Landscape.
04.07.2025 12:21 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 0 π 2
With my amazing colleagues (@nadiakiwan.bsky.social
@fransiskalouwagie.bsky.social @babsbleon.bsky.social ky.social & others not on @bsky.app), I'm greatly looking fwd to Sept start of our MLitt in European & Latin American Literatures & Cultures @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social! youtu.be/DhW2z-ZIRio?...
27.06.2025 13:36 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Schools shd have been working to improve language teaching, not opting out bcos kids found it 'too hard'. I was able to do French, Latin, Ancient Greek & some Italian in state schools 40-odd yrs ago. Sadly, language learning is increasingly the preserve of privileged minority in private schools.
01.06.2025 13:34 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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31.05.2025 19:24 β π 40 π 42 π¬ 1 π 5
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01.05.2025 10:18 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
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21.03.2025 11:58 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Colleagues in Cardiff might be able to imagine how I felt this morning when I got an email telling me one of my papers had been quoted in a paper about languages in Kazakhstan ππ
21.03.2025 10:05 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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If anyone at Cardiff reads this, please reach out to staff at Aberdeen. They fought so hard to keep the modern language dept. and probably have a lot of advice.
Languages are SO important. I use my Danish degree daily, even though I'm hardly ever in Denmark now.
14.03.2025 11:44 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Since 1946, the Institut français d'Ecosse promotes the French language & culture through a wide range of activities! Based in Edinburgh. #LearnFrenchinScotland
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Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain and its North Sea neighbours
Substack: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com
PhD in Chinese at the University of St Andrewsπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ. Interested in Contemporary #Chinese Minority Literature (Hui εεζεΈοΌand Diasporic Literature.
Senior Lecturer in German, Film & Visual Culture @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. Linguist. Austrianist. Literature, film & visual culture scholar. Views my own.
Director of SGSAH. Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
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The 21 Group campaigns against the complaisant acceptance of bullying by UK Universities. We provide support for those experiencing bullying in academia.
Historian of Italian pop music, media, culture.
Podcast: https://tvitalianstyle.wordpress.com
Author, Many Meanings Mina w/ Intellect Books.
Educational Developer at University of Leeds.
SFHEA. FRHistS.
Multilingual, multicultural, multilovely.
Professor of Sociolinguistics at Cardiff University π¨ππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ ΏπΊπΈ
Currently studying varieties of Welsh English
She/her
Professor of History, sometimes administrator at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
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Academic and author.
Research on shinkansen, the JAL123 plane crash, death studies, disaster movies, and symbolism in Japan.
Also author of three novels so far & writing books about Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Here to help you to publish and make an impact with your research.
Lecturer in Public Communication and Gender
Researches impact of health communication on social inequalities
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Assistant Prof in French at Durham University.
Women's writing/filmmaking, feminisms, bodies. Ecriture inclusive/crΓ©ative.
Reviews Editor @francemodern.bsky.social
International co-officer @wifaustralia.bsky.social
Membership Secretary @auphf.bsky.social
Wie hier is, is van hier, en dus niet daar. UU (NL), but also UA (Bel) and UCL (UK). Displaced by Brexit. Still on X as @chrisdec71 (dormant) and @belgianrefugees (increasingly sleepy).
Francophone Studies; Decolonial Theory; Migration and Critical Border Studies - University of Aberdeen
