The so-called multilingual perspective on translanguaging suggests that the core question up for debate is whether languages exist. But the question I am more interested in is how languages and the borders between them come to exist. Spoiler alert: colonialism plays a big part in that.

It’s that time of the year. Mate 🧉 and grading on one side and your 2025 vision board on the other side. Not really into following the Gregorian calendar for my new cycle wishes but I’ll have a few concepts to start with.

Beautiful, powerful, new documentary by Ana Carvalho on the experiences of Uruguayan Portuguese speakers, "Vozes das Margens"

Trailer shown at #NWAV52
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Most Spanish-speaking Uruguayans don't even know there's Uruguayan Portuguese.

#Teaching #Linguistics #Multilingualism

This is my Black Friday purchase. To learn about ancestral knowledge, to honor #Indigenous communities, to teach the children I don’t yet have to love and respect those who were here before us and whose language and cosmology is nature itself. I want to learn more. I want to remember. 🌱