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Kate Clanchy
KateClanchy1
We all know that children have a better capacity than adults for learning language - provided it is by immersion. We know meta-language learning doesn't work so well. No one
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ramy
mdiyntoshemsho
The adoption of the Lebanese dialect as the country’s official language and the promotion of the Lebanese language as being independent from Arabic is purely on the basis of convenience.
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Today is International Romani Language Day. Here are some quick facts about our language: The Romani language (Romani chib/Romanes) was what first kick started the investigation into our origin as
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Kate Clanchy
KateClanchy1
When the first colonial boats landed in the Americas, the captains sent the ship’s boys, aged about 9, to winter with the local people. This was so they’d come back
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Rhiannon L Cosslett
rhiannonlucyc
I'm so sick of people calling Erasmus elitist. Yes, it was generally for people who had bothered to learn another European language. I think it says a lot about English
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@WeAreDisabled: @cheesepickles
WeAreDisabled
I'm a Linguist / Language Scientist, here are some of my Twitter-sized thoughts on #DisabilityLanguage - A thread (1/x) Language often gets misrepresented as word containers that we pass to
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Alinda Merrie Jan 🌹
alindaMjan
Suppose I live in Kerala and have a kid who learns in Malayalam, ie., she learns Science, Maths and Social Science in Malayalam. When she's in say 4th or 5th,
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Lulu
lourdesgnavarro
I never use LatinX or rarely. Should we consider that when Republicans or older generation folks hear it they either don’t understand it or they assume journalists are Democrats because
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Ankaralı Jan
06JAnk
Erdoğan's speech today on making Turkish a world language was fairly cutting: he said that language was a tool of imperialism and that peoples worldwide who had given up their
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Dorie CP
doriecp
OMG, language teachers, you CANNOT use CI/language acquisition theory or “linguistics” to excuse your unwillingness or “inability” to accept a trans or nonbinary person’s pronouns. Just stop. Yes, you might
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Charlie
janeandharry
Oh look, a prescriptivist.I get it; I used to insist on grammar “rules” too because I enjoy learning them, but studying linguistics opened my eyes to how snobbish the idea
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Rachael Welsh
RachaelKWelsh
Can’t stop thinking about this idea that the reason support isn’t coming for theatre is because we’ve spent too long making the “economic case” and speaking the language of those
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Jewish History
HistoricalJW
Today is the Hebrew Language Day!And here are some facts about this unique language: 1. The word “Hebrew” עברית is derived from the name “Eber” עבר, an ancestor of the
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Britney Spears Jalisco (Official)
cesarmrvm
In 1998, voters in California voted to pass prop 227 which eliminated bilingual education in the state. It wasn't repealed until *2016*Not being educated formally in your native language and
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Dr Sarah Shulist
sarahshulist
Official bilingualism in Canada is a barrier to Indigenous language revitalization. Investment in the two colonial languages always happens before Indigenous language support.https://twitter.com/melaniejoly/status/1325910108329693184 Nunavu
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Eagle Eye
SortedEagle
Why is South kept away from Hindi?It’s the politicians who have kept the people away from the common Indian language. Down South there are different languages in all five states
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