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Louise Rolland
@lrollandmulti.bsky.social
Linguist.e | multilingualism & emotion, identity, social justice (esp. mental health, education) | researching multilingually | academic writing | Own views | #wiasn
#OpenToWork
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9814-2685
Great to present about Researcher wellbeing in research at the Language & Trauma workshop hosted by @jupurkarthofer.bsky.social & B. Busch today! We need cultural change to prevent, identify & address vicarious traumatisation. Skinner et al (2025) propose a useful framework👇🏻#research #ethics #trauma
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
حُرِّيَّة,حُرِّيَّة!
Freedom, freedom!
We will demand it in all our languages!
#StopGazaGenocide
#Arabic #London #Students #HumanRights #WeAreAllPalestinians #UK
September 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Thousands set off on the UK national march for Palestine: we demand a ceasefire, an end to the inhuman blockade on food and humanitarian aid. Stop the genocide in Gaza! Free 🇵🇸!
#StopGazaGenocide #StopStarvingGaza #StopArmingIsrael #SanctionIsrael #London #ICJBreach #WeAreAllPalestinians #HumanRights
September 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Some language fun for a rainy day: rebus puzzles on display at the Young V&A museum! My favourite is #6 😉

Each picture represents a sound. Combine they form a food word. #4 (not pictured): a toy chick + a shirt w/ the letter P = chickpea!
#London #lingsky #words #puzzles #English #museum #rebus
September 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Magnifique illustration du bilinguisme et de la bialphabétisation, de Zeina Abirached! "Je tricote depuis l'enfance une langue constituée de deux fils fragiles et précieux." Dans "La langue arabe, une chance pour la France", de Jack Lang (tract Gallimard)
#plurilinguisme #arabe #français
August 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Avec les illustrations sublimes de Zeina Abirached!
#arabe #alphabet #calligraphie #art
August 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🗓️Samedi 9 août à 10h: la médiathèque de Lans-en-Vercors propose une séance de Scrabble en anglais! Idée ludique pour pratiquer la langue👏🏻 Gratuit et sans réservation, à partir de 12 ans.
#Lans #Vercors #Anglais #English #langsky #LanguageLearning #jeux
August 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Beautiful #multilingual #picturebook by Palestinian American writer @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social! Infused with love for her Homeland and told through her father's evocative stories. Featuring #Arabic words/script (& glossary), beautiful illustration. Keep teaching kids about the world! 🇵🇸
#langsky
August 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Opening keynote by Prof Fridah Kanana Erastus (Kenyatta University, Kenya) & Dr Julius Taji (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania): "Variation in present-day Swahili: Emerging #dialect areas". Great to finally meet Fridah in person, as we collaborate on writing workshops in Kenya!
#Kiswahili
July 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Looking back on a great writing workshop for early career researchers in Kenya last week! Fantastic working w/ colleagues from Uni of Essex, Kenyatta University & Birkbeck, and many guest contributors, to deliver a packed programme! See: tinyurl.com/543mazrj
#Kenya #AcademicWriting #BritishAcademy
July 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Author Anni Domingo spoke to literary activist Kadija Sesay about her book "Breaking the Maafa chain" in Nairobi yesterday, as part of the Sigana storytelling festival. Anni explained that Maafa refers to the "great disaster" of the African Holocaust.
#Kiswahili #Africa #BlackHistory
June 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I think this might be the Ge'ez script of Ethiopia? Spotted at The Nairobi Gallery, which houses a fantastic collection of African art.
#langsky #script #Ethiopia #Kenya #museum
June 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Breakfast to the tunes of "worship nonstop part 7" in Nairobi! 🇵🇸
#Kenya #Swahili #Soundscape
June 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Bilingual signage at #Southall station features the Punjabi Gurmukhi script! londonist.com/london/trans...
#London #LinguisticLandscape #multilingualism #Punjabi
June 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Swahili in unexpected places! Rachel Isadora's retelling of The Princess and the Pea is set in Africa, with greetings in #Somali, #Amharic and #Swahili! Beautifully illustrated. The ending needs updating to involve the princess's enthusiastic consent to marriage, though !
#picturebooks #fairytale
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join an exciting space mission using British Sign Language! Kids are excited to learn how to finger spell their name, before helping to launch a rocket by learning space-related signs. A brilliant activity using short video clips to teach sign language!
#BSL #SignLanguages #Lingsky #Museums #EDI
May 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We are marching for peace and the right to life for Palestinians 🇵🇸 #StopGazaGenocide#StopArmingIsrael #UK #HumanRights #Nakba77 #StoptheSiege
May 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Thousands gathering in #London to demand an end to #GazaGenocide‌.
#StopArmingIsrael #Nakba77
May 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
A great writing retreat with the added bonus of thinking about Languages of the Future in academia and beyond - @futuretense2025.bsky.social. Many thanks to
@peterbrowning.bsky.social, Josh Weeks and Flora Sagers! Merci à UCL for the #bilingual toilet sign, although I suspect AI...
#FakeFrench
May 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Remembering David Hughes, brilliant linguist and ethnomusicologist, wonderful human, who introduced me & countless others to Japanese folk music. Founder of the SOAS Min'yo Group, Okinawa Sanshinkai & more. It was an honour to rehearse, play music, chat & laugh with him! Forever in our 💔 & 🎶
#民謡
May 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Celebrating the brilliant Dr Hannah King!! 🎓Birkbeck PhD in Applied Linguistics, class of 2025! ☀️ Congratulations to a wonderdul friend and scholar! ❤️❤️
@hmking-linguist.bsky.social
#graduation #lingsky
April 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A multilingual April fool to brighten up your day ;) Enjoy the silly pranks!
#pun #multilingual #French #English #humour
April 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
March 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos speaks once again at the national march for #Palestine in London. As he remembers living in hiding, drinking melted snow and eating dried beans under siege in Hungary during WWII, he speaks out against the genocidal siege of #Gaza 💔. #StopTheGenocide #HumanRights
March 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Rallying for #Gaza and #Palestinians in London: voices and banners from all over the UK are raised in peaceful protest !
#StopGenocideInGaza #wearethepeople #FreePalestine #HumanRights #EndTheSiege #FreeKhalidMahmood
March 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM