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@globalcitizen.bsky.social
Everything language & culture #langsky Talking about: - Learning another language - Adopting a second culture - Living the international life I’ve studied over 50 languages - some a little, some a lot I believe in human unity & coffee ☕️
@janiemac.bsky.social
Teacher of 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇪. Friend, sister, auntie. Love languages, books 📚, films 🍿 and politics. Trying to stay positive!
@thepreparedexpat.bsky.social
Equipping you to survive and thrive as an expat. https://lnk.bio/thepreparedexpat
@lexicallab.bsky.social
EFL teachers and writers. Online teacher- and language-development courses all year round. Annual face-to-face summer school in north London. Check out our website to learn more: www.lexicallab.com
@katiap.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. New! MA Languages and Cultures Across Borders. Forthcoming: Venice Tales (OUP, 2025).
@christoslab.bsky.social
The Bluesky page of Christos Pliatsikas's Bilingualism in the Brain lab @ The University of Reading. research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/
@proferandolph.bsky.social
Language Education professor at UW-Madison dedicated to justice, abolition & liberation | ACTFL President | Past President of FLANC & AATSP-NC | Views = mine | He/Any
@matuww.bsky.social
Maˈtʼuww is a project involving linguistics, history, and art on the phylogenetic relationships of writing scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs, showing how connected we are as humans. 𓏞 Project link: matuww.github.io https://www.ko-fi.com/matuww
@catherineousselin.bsky.social
Language Advocate & Global Citizen | French Teacher & Polyglot | ACTFL TOY Finalist & ASCD Edu Honoree | World Language & #Edtech Presenter. Ally🏳️🌈🌎
@valentinaesl.bsky.social
Author, educator, student, public speaker. Lover of languages & cultures. Forever teacher and student. www.ValentinaESL.com
@multi-ling-mat.bsky.social
We are an independent publisher based in Bristol, UK. We publish titles on applied linguistics, multilingualism, second language acquisition, language education and translation. We also like bunnies and cake. https://www.multilingual-matters.com
@scilt.bsky.social
Scotland’s national centre for languages. Sign up to our weekly email for all our latest news http://bit.ly/SCILTbulletin. Visit our website: https://scilt.org.uk/
@eneidalinguist.bsky.social
Teacher Trainer & Chartered Linguist #EstelleBrisard 2021 winner #Translation #PSIT #ConferenceInterpreting #Languages #Education #ECR #Research RT≠Endorsement
@languagewriter.bsky.social
Burger van Amersfoort, Nederland, EU; elders vreemdeling. Pessimist die z’n zeven zegeningen telt. Reizende huismus. Taaljournalist. Language writer. Travelling homebody. Pessimist forever counting his many blessings. Most posts in Dutch, some in English.
@oliviaglaze.bsky.social
contemporary portuguese literature, photography, & film 🇵🇹 empire | medical humanities | trauma | illness | disability | women’s writing AHRC postdoc | https://readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk Languages & Policy postdoc | MHRA & UCFL
@geraldineh.bsky.social
Linguist, Germanist, word botherer, prolific swearer, mediocre ballroom dancer and occasional hoola hooper.
@drbeckymt.bsky.social
Prof of languages and linguistics, Director of programme design, LCS Uni of Leeds | Autistic, LGBTQ, adoptive parent | L2 phon, language education, 日本語, español
@iaml3.bsky.social
International network of scholars who share an interest in multilingualism • Biennial IAM L3 conference • iam.wildapricot.org • #IAMultilingualism
@goetheinstitut.bsky.social
@lklawless.com
#Teacher at LawlessLanguages.com, #author of "French Workbook for Dummies," and #vegan chef at theVeggieTable.com Also love #travel #reading #laughing #langsky #LearningFrench #LearningSpanish #LearningItalian #language #EduSky #Guadeloupe she/her
@ciol-linguists.bsky.social
For languages and linguists. The Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) serving linguists and language professionals in the UK and worldwide since 1910.
@wessexwalker.bsky.social
Walker usually with special poles. Living in West Country. Want to live in Italy but Brexit!. Love to travel & explore mostly Europe. Like reading, watching cooking & learning Italian! movies and walking my Lola the Dalmatian!
@spsmith45.bsky.social
French teacher 33 years, now materials writer (frenchteacher.net), author of books and blogs about language teaching.
@sloeful.bsky.social
Learn German with us 🇩🇪 #langsky #langtwt #german #learngerman 👉 sloeful.com 👉 youtube.com/@sloeful.german
@profstevenwilson.bsky.social
Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast | https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/steven-wilson | All views my own.
@emmanicolamfl.bsky.social
Subject Leader of MFL 🇪🇦🇫🇷. Mum to 2 teenagers. Book lover, pianist and cooking enthusiast.
@bucld.bsky.social
Official account of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), organized by the students and faculty of @bulinguistics.bsky.social since 1976. BUCLD 49 will take place on November 7–10, 2024! Web: https://www.bu.edu/bucld
@karenwnc.bsky.social
Learning Spanish (B1), reading, hiking, singing, playing the ukulele and photography. Call the southern Appalachians home.
@linguisticdiscovery.com
Exploring the science and diversity of language! 🗣️ The latest linguistics-related news, how language works, and the diverse ways that languages do things. 👨🏼🏫 Danny Hieber, Ph.D. /ˈdæ.ni ˈhi.bɚ/ https://linguisticdiscovery.com
@fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social
Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013 Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995 www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
@doriec.bsky.social
Currently teaching: elementary Spanish, k-6 world lang methods, and qual research methods PhD in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies. Interested in how Spanish language education can perpetuate racism against Spanish speakers. Pronouns: any 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈
@frenchstudies.bsky.social
Society for scholars and students of French in higher education https://www.sfs.ac.uk
@ttradioofficial.bsky.social
Welcome to Teachers Talk Radio: the home of live education conversation. News, views, real teachers talking teaching. www.ttradio.org
@carolinedlaurent.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris; 20th & 21st-C 🇨🇵/Francophone Literatures & Cultures; Comparative Genocide Studies; Graphic Narratives/Novels; PhD @Harvard
@kwebek.bsky.social
Professeur à l’Université de Sherbrooke, directeur du CRIFUQ (@crifuq.bsky.social) et responsable du Fonds de données linguistiques du Québec (@plateformeFDLQ.bsky.social). Recherche en #sociolinguistique #histoiredelalangue #linguistiquedecorpus
@keironpim.bsky.social
Author, nonfiction writing tutor, editor, proofreader. Out now in paperback, Endless Flight: the Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth (Granta). Agent: @thehamiltonagency.bsky.social
@thelanguagegarage.bsky.social
Get on the road to speaking a new #language! Visit us for private lessons, small group classes, and loads of free learning content. thelanguagegarage.com
@ucflangs.bsky.social
The University Council For Languages: the national voice of research & teaching in languages, cultures, societies, and related disciplines in UK HE.
@modernlanguage.bsky.social
News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
@erikhansson.bsky.social
German-Swedish translator since 1995. Keynote speaker here & there. Member of SFÖ-SAT (SE), founding & honorary member of DVÜD (DE). 3rd last Curator of Sweden in 2018. That guy who founded TTNS on FB. Escaped from the blue bird. Prefers beer to wine. #xl8
@sgollance.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
@themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy
Marginalia on our search for meaning. [bridged from https://themarginalian.org/ on the web by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@sarahjyoung.bsky.social
Russophone culture & history, prison/gulag writing, and C19 literature. Also cats. And needlework. Author/translator of Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906 https://uclpress.co.uk/products/173021
@kaffeehaus.bsky.social
@keithkahnharris.bsky.social
Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
@ioe.bsky.social
We are world leaders for research and teaching in education, culture, psychology, and social science. We create lasting and evolving change. We are a faculty of University College London (@ucl.ac.uk). ucl.ac.uk/ioe #WeAreIOE
@ajaanmark.bsky.social
From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand. Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism. He/Him
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen' Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth' Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈 Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦 gretchenmcculloch.com
@openculture.bsky.social
A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts. Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
@annebillson.bsky.social
Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
@lingthusiasm.bsky.social
A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social "Fascinating" -NYT "Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed lingthusiasm.com Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
@oewordhord.bsky.social
Dr Hana Videen (she/her), author of THE WORDHORD: DAILY LIFE IN OLD ENGLISH & THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY. Sharing the Old English Word of the Day since 2013. linktr.ee/wordhord
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
⛔️ Pls don't follow with no bio/profile🖼 or with 0️⃣ posts. Seriously. Beware 📌. Posts are impermanent. Posting and reading on various and sundry topics including tech, art, music, books, food, and language learning.
@josephinequinn.bsky.social
Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). I like cats.
@alltherightmovies.com
The account on classic and hit films. Details provided in our making of stories is direct from cast/crew or 3+ sources. Listen to our podcast for the best movie show out there at alltherightmovies.com
@arrantpedantry.com
Editor • Writer • Linguist • Ironic meta-pedant • Villain • Cat person Blog: https://www.arrantpedantry.com Merch: https://arrantpedantry.myspreadshop.com
@swamplizard.bsky.social
Speech-Language Pathologist, PhD student in Neuroscience. Follow for neuro, linguistics, speech, politics (I’m working on it), & other creative things. he/him. (Views expressed here are actually yours, thanks for agreeing)
@carpeidiom.bsky.social
Linguist, researcher, writer, traveller, Cultural commuter Etymology | Linguistic diversity | 量词 nerd | Mongolian | Hebrew | Basque | Endangered languages | Multilingualism | MECFS/POTS #Langsky Feed: https://tinyurl.com/3khcas3u
@gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social
British-Austrian Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author, occasional artist, linguist, food, wine and cooking.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social
Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'. Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist.
@philosophybites.bsky.social
Philosophy Bites podcast - co-hosted by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton
@umasslinguistics.bsky.social
The University Of Massachusetts Boston Applied Linguistics Department. Account managed by @koutropoulos.bsky.social
@arunsethuraman.bsky.social
Evolutionary computational genomicist. Associate Professor at @sandiegostate.bsky.social, athlete, insomniac, writer, singer, polyglot, polymath. He/him. 🏳️🌈🇮🇳🇺🇸🐞🌱🐢🧬🏋🏾♂️🎤✍🏾 www.sethuramanlab.com Views are mine and mine alone.
@santpolyglot.bsky.social
🌍Polyglot📍Barcelona👨🎓Engineer 💻Digital Marketer since 2006 Love 🏊♂️⛷️🏓🚴♂️ Posting only about languages, language learning, resources, etc. #LangSky
@becauselanguage.com
A show about linguistics, the science of language. Your hosts (in order of coolness): Hedvig Skirgård, Daniel Midgley, and Ben Ainslie (tie for 2nd).
@profpankhurst.bsky.social
Followed the science exodus from Twitter. Interested in wildlife conservation, climate change. European at heart. Lucky to live in Cumbria. Banner pic is the Rannerdale bluebells. She/her. #covidisnotover
@lewan.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
@jencalleja.bsky.social
Writer of FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translator of German-lang lit, publisher of Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. Hastings, UK. www.jencalleja.com
@judithflanders.co.uk
Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon. She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
@ilcs.bsky.social
The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/ Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
@michaelerard.bsky.social
This machine turns overcoming into becoming. New book: BYE BYE I LOVE YOU. The Economist: "strangely comforting." @waywordradio.org: "As fascinating as it is original." https://bit.ly/4kN0PKa More at www.michaelerard.com
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@languages-direct.com
HQ for Languages Direct Ltd's posts on anything and everything to do with learning foreign languages. Sign up for our newsletter: https://buff.ly/3MEPZXw Bristol, UK, New York, U.S.A