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Today, the first foreign session of the "School of Innopractics and Russian Seasons" began in Dakar (Republic of Senegal)!
The first day traditionally began with the acquaintance of students and teachers. Painters and sculptors of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts talked about Image
how the academic process is being built in Russia, and students shared details of their creative path, showed their portfolios, and also shared the main themes of their work.
Among the leitmotives of the creativity of the session participants who came to Dakar from all over the
African continent are the slave trade, the exploitation of child labor, the growth of crime, the pollution of the planet and many
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In this thread 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼students @MQLinguistics @Macquarie_Uni share what they've learned so far (1st quarter of semester)

Favorite facts about #languages and #cultures in #contact
In #Arabic we say: “Footprints indicate trajectory”, but I never thought that a wheel would reveal a culture. This is how #cultures can be traced through #languages. The reading made me feel like I am solving a puzzle more than exploring languages.
Think twice before starting to learn #English, cuz you’ll end up learning even more -- #German and #French, and more …
After all, it was the Anglo-Saxons and Normans who influenced the vocabulary!!
English is a mixed #language!
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****Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis****

Special issue of Multilingua addresses #language challenges of #COVID19 pandemic

Out now. All papers free access, thanks to publisher @dg_mouton

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Global public health #communication is characterized by the large-scale exclusion of linguistic minorities from timely high-quality #information #COVID19

What are the #language regimes behind these exclusions and what can sociolinguists do?

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#Translation is an important means of enabling access to #information in disaster response

How did volunteer translators in #Wuhan go about procuring medical supplies in the initial stages of the #Covid_19 emergency?

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