Come along if you're free tomorrow afternoon to hear about our #MultilingualLibrary, Multilingual #Storytime & their impact on a #London primary school! 🗣💬
Thurs 26 Mar
online
15:45-16:45 (UK time)
FREE! :)
#booksky #langsky #kidlit #edusky
Picking out books for a lecture on #multilingual #picturebooks & our #MultilingualLibrary! 📚💙
Two contenders . . .
Dancing Hands about #Filipino #SignLanguage (originally in #Filipino)
La Selva de Zonia by @juanamartinezn.bsky.social (in #Spanish) with environmental themes
#kidlit
A gorgeous-looking #picturebook in #Portuguese:
Ninguém domia by Rafael Sica
www.rafaelsica.com.br/product-page...
#MultilingualLibrary #langsky 📚💙 #kidlit
World Kid Li Month Where will you travel by book? #WorldKidLitMonth
Hello from your #MultilingualLibrary!
Did you know it's #WorldKidLitMonth?
Which #books are you reading & in which #languages?
Just a little #multilingual hello from our #MultilingualLibrary to you!!
Can anyone identify the #languages on this card spotted in #London and/or add their own?
🐦🐦 #langsky 📚💙
This is a gorgeous #picturebook and one we have in our #MultilingualLibrary! 🤩
Issa Watanabe's illustrations are incredible & the #wordless format makes it perfect for #storytelling in any #language!
🐦🐦 #kidlit 💙📚
This looks like a fantastic event for those wishing to explore "race and representation in children's literature, and approaches to diversify school #libraries" 🗣💬
#kidlit #MultilingualLibrary 💙📚 #EAL #ESL
A #French language #picturebook to check out!
#kidlit #MultilingualLibrary 💙📚
If you're looking for #picturebooks in #japanese, check out this upcoming exhibition featuring work by illustrator & author, Moro (ももろ 絵本作家、イラストレーター)!
#MultilingualLibrary #kidlit #langsky
In case you missed this last year, Gonzalo Pérez Andrade & I wrote a short blog post with tips for creating a #MultilingualLibrary!
Check it out & start diversifying your #book collection(s) today!
#linguistics #booksky #EAL #ESL #multilinguallearners
Want to create a #MultilingualLibrary? 💙📚
Read our short blog post on this topic for NALDIC (National Subject Organization for #EAL): t.ly/S5FXW 🗣💬
Key messages:
📚something is better than nothing!
📚developing a #multilingual #library can be relatively simple & affordable
#ESLsky #books #langsky
Great to hear that #WorldBookDay is considering/incorporating #linguistic diversity . . . yay #multilingualism! & yay Sabine! 💙📚
We will continue to share #picturebooks from our #MultilingualLibrary collection in many #languages, so keep an eye out for suggestions in languages that interest you! 🗣💬
AND . . . if you want to see more books in (insert #language of your choice) at your local #library, check out &/or request #books in those languages!
#MultilingualLibrary 💙📚 #multilingualism #langsky
Thanks for the recommendation!
What a fantastic little list of #books published in non-English #languages!
#picturebooks #MultilingualLibrary 💙📚 #multilingualism
And a perfect place for our #MultilingualLibrary! 💙📚
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle in Arabic
The Shahrzizi Nights : A Story Within a Story Within a Story by Hadil Ghoneim in Arabic
Where did the dinosaur hide? by Dar Al Yasmine Jordan in Arabic
The second, third, & fourth books we added to our #MultilingualLibrary are in #Arabic! 📚💙
الدودة شديدة الجوع
ليالي شهرزيزي
أين أختبأ الدينصور؟
#picturebooks #kidlit #langsky #multilingual 🐦🐦
Book: Maja tizenkét babája (Maja's Twelve Dolls) by Petra Finy
This was the first book added to our #MultilingualLibrary of #picturebooks! 🤩
Maja tizenkét babája (Maja's Twelve Dolls) in #Romanian
Just £2.00 from Oxfam Books financed by yours truly (@hmking-linguist.bsky.social) pre-funding!
#langsky #booksky #library
Afaan Oromo Afrikaans Amharic Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) Arabic Armenian Basque (Euskera) Bengali Blackfoot (Káínai) Burmese Cantonese Catalan Chinese (simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Cree Czech Danish Dutch English Farsi & English Filipino Flemish French French (Belgian) German German (Swiss) Greek Gujarati Haitian-Creole Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Igbo Ikalawang Edisyon Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kiswahili / Swahili Korean Lakota & English Luganda Malayalam Māori Nepali Norwegian Pashto Polish Portuguese Portuguese (Brazilian) Punjabi Romanian Russian Scots Shona Slovenian Somali Spanish Spanish (Mexico) Spanglish Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Tigrinya Turkish Twi Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Wordless Xhosa Yoruba
In preparation for #AILA2024, I have updated our #MultilingualLibrary catalogue . . .
Our library now houses 264 #books in 76 #languages /varieties! 💙📚
If you're at the conference, come hear me talk about #multilingualism & #books!
#Academic#Sky 🗣💬 #langsky
오늘 한국책 5권이 도착했어요! 🗣💬
5 gorgeous, brand new #Korean books for our #MultilingualLibrary arrived today! 😍😍😍
I love my job! 💙📚
#AcademicSky
