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What's your 'mother language'? Today marks the 25th anniversary of efforts to preserve linguistic diversity and cultural heritage. www.linkedin.com/posts/charte...

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You've read all about it: Teaching today's students can be incredibly frustrating. But a new survey by The Chronicle finds that working with students can often be faculty members' chief source of joy. chroni.cl/41k91K9

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After 3 years of circuitous torture involving a time-wasting and chaotic uni journal, a publisher that closed down mid-process, and finally, a supportive and productive uni journal, I've just received an email stating that my 1st article will finally be published! Perseverance wins! 🎉

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Karen Riste, a dedicated and inspiring tutor who learned Welsh as an adult, has received a prestigious award for her innovative teaching methods which are helping to inspire a new generation of Welsh speakers

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If it looks like there are two different fonts on this clay tablet from ancient Babylon, that’s because there are. In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.

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This year marks the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day. A new report from UNESCO highlights the need to include multilingualism in education to ensure children can access education in a language they understand. Read more: tinyurl.com/mw9vnwsh #langsky #linguistics

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How Oscar-nominated screenwriters attempt to craft authentic dialogue, dialects and accents

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Cross-cultural and cross -linguist friendships should be mandatory goals for every human being. The ultimate cure for bigotry and ignorance ♥️ www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

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On the dearth of interpreters: "Large investment in language education throughout the English-speaking world is urgently needed [for] the next cohort of politicians, diplomats, businessmen, consultants, human rights campaigners, international lawyers & policy wonks" #Language TO SAVE THE WORLD!

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'Studies show that parts of the brain involved in word retrieval atrophy over time' ...and being a woman of a certain age, where the brain frequently goes on holiday, as I can attest! theconversation.com/what-happens...

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"Reading and writing cannot be separated. Reading is breathing in, writing us breathing out" Pam Allyn Beautiful!🥰

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How do bilinguals process space, time & grammar? @evangelia.bsky.social examines conceptual transfer, cognitive load, & bilingual cognition in small linguistic communities in this #AbralinTalk. A must-watch for those interested in language contact & psycholinguistics! 📖 #langsky #linguistics

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Have you ever wondered how emotion is communicated through our voice? Or how we trigger empathy in other people through what we say? Research by Dr Gláucia Laís Salomão is seeking to answer these questions. Read more: www.su.se/department-o... #langsky #linguistics

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nods in Welsh accent 'Your accent isn't a problem. It reflects where you're from, the languages you speak, and the experiences that made you who you are' www.linkedin.com/posts/stuart...

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My struggle! 'In reading and writing Chinese, L1s used a range of skills beyond phonological awareness; morphological, visual-spatial & visual-motor. Those who learn an alphabetic script are disadvantaged as they rely on phonological skills for learning Chinese' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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My PhD was supervised 50/50 between politics and modern languages at Cardiff and it made the whole experience so much richer. The proposal to close MLANG is incredibly short-sighted and detrimental to all at CU. The importance of languages and understanding global cultures can't be overstated!

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Visible Speech is a system of phonetic transcription devised by Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) to help deaf children learn to speak. Bell’s notation is based on the physiology of the speech organs and can, therefore, be used as a universal alphabet to represent any language. 1/3 #Histlx

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'Linguistic relativity suggests the language we speak can influence our cognitive processes & worldview. Understanding this relationship is essential for language learners, as it highlights the importance of cultural context in communication & knowledge acquisition' www.babbel.com/en/magazine/...

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may the new year help, not hinder; and allow us to shed the sorrows of the old. [豐子愷采藥 Feng Zikai, "Collecting Herbs"] #蛇年安康

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That's what they say #podcast - Where did that pit in your stomach come from? www.michiganpublic.o...

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Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary is now accessible, aimed at boosting language learning in West Africa.

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Happy lunar New year!🎉🧧🎊 The snake 🐍 is special to me as it was also the first year I spent in China in 2013. Happy 12th anniversary to me, and 蛇年快乐 to everyone! 🎇🎇🎇 chinesenewyear.net/lunar-new-ye...

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Most of our problems could be solved by properly funding public education.

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For weekend readers, some reflections on #wildfire #metaphors as used in extreme event and climate science communication #scicomm blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

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"Our agentic AI technology, exemplifies how language and technology continue to converge, creating systems that not only understand but act on our behalf" www.techradar.com/pro/the-evol...

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Welsh language learning app innovators, SaySomethinginWelsh have created a free mini course to help people learn the Welsh classic Calon Lân - often considered Wales’ second national anthem

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This is a fabulous and quite poignant read from @manyapan www.whatsonweibo.com/dear-li-hua/

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If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.

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Virtual reality project aims to preserve Cornish language https://buff.ly/42q8Vlk #langsky

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What a lovely and moving account of how #Irish is not confined to rural & Gaeltacht areas, and how it matters in an urban space like Dublin. #langsky #minoritizedlanguages

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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but they're also a good substitute for words... theconversation.com/aboriginal-m...

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4 down, 20 to go! "Train travel always delivers plenty of magic. Sometimes it’s in the cars, as you meet fellow travellers. Sometimes it’s outside, in the landscape the train traverses offering an adventure, an experience, an insight into the heart of a nation." www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/wor...

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Manipulating the algorithm by muting an increasingly disturbing list of words to keep my online space healthy & global. I'm here for #language #linguistics #education #research #travel; photos of #sunsets #space #your-pets, & a whole host of other normal things that still exist beyond the nasty ❤️

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Worth reading. 'AI and English language teaching: Affordances and challenges' by Crompton et al, showing that AI has affordances to support in ELT/L. Published by the British Journal of Educational Technology in March 2024 bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EdTechTESOL

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"Research has shown that speaking in a second language makes you think more rationally." www.independent.co.uk/life-style/t...

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The changing meaning of language and words over time, "leads to suspicion... communicating about pain can be stymied by the many differing ways we think about what it is." daily.jstor.org/what-pain-me...

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"To expand our minds & to become more fully civilized members of the human race, we should learn as many different languages as we can. The diversity of tongues is a treasure & a resource for thinking new thoughts." David Bellos 'Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation & the Meaning of Everything'

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This is research. The linguistics forms of f**k.

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A major problems in linguistics is English is so dominant. If English has a category, that English version of the category will then function as the starting point for all discussion and definitions for that category for every other language. English has its own gravitational field. #linguistics

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