Louise Rolland

Threading Tongues: Call and Response with Poetry and Beadwork | Barbican Explore South African storytelling, beadwork poetics and praise poetry in this participatory workshop with performer and writer Nomakhwezi Becker.

🗓️ 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

Live Literature Programme | Barbican Whether you're joining us for a day or the entire festival, come together to celebrate artists working in endangered languages and dialects.

🗓️ 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

Swirl of Words Workshop with Stephen Watts | Barbican Celebrate London’s linguistic richness in this multilingual poetry workshop with poet and translator Stephen Watts.

🗓️ 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

Amazing, and yet so natural! I love that in his imagination Charles Darwin might quiz the animals about their languages! ☺️

Lou Sarabadzic To the happy few Languages, like immigrants, must be carefully chosen. Then and only then is it decent bilingualism. Otherwise we call it they-came-here-for-our-economy how-are-their-children-going…

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
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Record Welsh Place Names | DataMapWales

The Welsh government is asking for help in Welshifying online maps

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Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have existed?

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
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AI in Africa: Experts aim to close the language gap A new dataset with African languages should improve access to AI for millions on the continent.

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

Act II: Cavaradossi's "taci o m'uccidi" is tough to translate. Perhaps "say nothing or you're signing my death warrant"? But they went with "say nothing or he'll kill me", which shifts the responsibility back to Scarpia and doesn't match his reaction later, when he calls her a traitor. #translation

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

Sawa sawa! That's all the Sheng I have 😉 Asante, but for now I can't take classes so Duolingo is my friend!

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

Sheffield City of Languages Partnerships - - Twinkl A collection of resources for teachers and schools to celebrate the Sheffield: City of Languages initiative.

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

Words Across Waters: Afro Lit Fest | British Library Immerse yourself in a day of dynamic storytelling, inspiring conversations and creative exploration. This vibrant new festival brings together leading writ

📚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

Fragments of a plate with moulded alphabet on the rim and the manual British Sign Language alphabet round the centre. In the centre of the plate is a scene featuring five dolls seated in a circle with an open book between them.

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

Coping with Emotionally Challenging Research: Developing a Strategic Approach to Researcher Wellbeing - Journal of Academic Ethics While previous work has highlighted the possible impacts of undertaking emotionally challenging research, it is only recently, particularly within the UK with the 2028 Research Excellence Framework focus on research culture, that this subject is starting to gain senior leadership attention. Funded by the UK Research and Innovation, Researcher England, Enhancing Research Culture fund. We undertook an in-depth study involving researchers across topics and disciplines in the humanities and social science, with the objectives of establishing: the impacts of studying emotionally challenging topics on researchers, what they currently found helpful in preventing and/or coping with these impacts, and what additional support they wanted. In this paper we report on findings related to the latter two objectives to provide insight into how future research projects could be ethically designed to minimize distress, secondary and vicarious trauma in researchers. We then use these findings to formulate an innovative strategic institutional response to researcher wellbeing and emotionally challenging studies that can be implemented in three stages: Bronze, which is focused on awareness raising and the development of policies and guidance that are built into ethical procedures; Silver, involving the establishment of training, clear referral pathways, and (funded) Researcher Wellbeing Plans - including regular academic supervision, team working, and extra time in workloads to undertake wellbeing interventions - built into the design of projects; and Gold, a wholistic institutional response where, in addition to the above, policies, processes, practices and culture are proactively attentive to the prevention of and provision for distress relating to emotionally challenging research.

Skinner et al (2025) asked researchers what support they need when engaging in emotionally challenging research. The team proposes a comprehensive framework for organisations, teams and individuals to take proactive action for researcher wellbeing: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#research #ethics

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.

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UK anti-slavery commissioner condemns Shabana Mahmood’s asylum comments Home secretary’s remarks about ‘vexatious’ claims will have real-life impact on trafficking victims, says Eleanor Lyons

"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

Articulate A deaf writer’s exploration of language, communication, and what it means to be articulate—and her journey to reclaim her voice Rachel Kolb was born profoun...

Hi all! My dear friend, Rachel Kolb, just launched her book today. This is a deaf writer’s exploration of language, communication, and what it means to be articulate—and her journey to reclaim her voice. Can’t recommend it enough!! Link is below 🤟🏼♥️

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The GRAND MULTI-LITERACY Event 2025 An online - live - free event for multilingual families and educators teaching multilingual students From Friday 19th to Sunday 21st September 2025 on YouTube: Library4Multilnguals

Interested in #multilingualism, #literacy, & #languages?

Check out The Grand Multi-Literacy event this coming weekend :)

It's free, online & features talks from researchers, educators, parents, authors & more!

Talks are recorded, so you can catch up after if you prefer!

#langsky 💙📚 #Kidlit

Addressing racism and anti-migrant sentiment in the UK – supporting our international medical workforce Following the Unite the Kingdom march, the BMA re-confirms its opposition to racism and xenophobia

The BMA stands firmly against all forms of racism and xenophobia. International doctors are central to the NHS, yet too many face discrimination and hostility. We're calling for stronger protections, inclusivity, and respect so all doctors can thrive.
Read more www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

YouTube video by Charles Aznavour - Topic You've Got To Learn (Il faut savoir / English Version 4)

So APT didn't make it past the criteria? 😉 There's a nice French-English Aznavour song which might come back to me. This English version is funny in a lang learning context: "you've got to learn... Although it's very hard..." (In English with his French accent)! m.youtube.com/watch?v=WpSu...

More than 7,000 under-fives in Gaza put in malnutrition recovery in two-week period Total for August may exceed 15,000 new patients, more than seven times February figure

More than 7,000 children under the age of five were put on recovery programmes for acute malnutrition at clinics run by Unicef in Gaza in just two weeks last month. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Young people in England and Australia are supposedly poor at learning languages – our research shows this isn’t true By listening more closely to the interests and goals of young people in schools, we can start to provide the language teaching they want.

Young people in England and Australia are supposedly poor at learning languages – our research shows this isn’t true
theconversation.com/young-people...
via @theconversation.com
#languagelearning #langsky

Looking at books together, following the baby's pace and interest, is a wonderful start to the shared reading experience. Early picture books can be discussed in any/all languages,setting the scene for children's multilingual literacy!
#SlowReading #ReadingRights #multilingual #literacy #books