Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that the US has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history Trump’s campaign produced campaign materials in Spanish to reach more voters. Now that he’s president, his White House is going English-only.

This article (below) is from @theconversation.com
I am enraged to think of the harm that cancelling interpreters for hospitals, schools and courtrooms will do. trump is an ignoramus who cannot even speak one language fluently..his own. #language #multilingualism #interpreters #languageoppression

Students’ feedback on the Neapolitan Language and Culture Course at Glasgow University. 📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌋

#bilingualism #languageoppression #linguisticbias #accentbias #linguisticapartheid
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I think of pronunciation a lot when supporting children with literacy, especially EAL (English as Addional Langiage) kids. Our, EAL, understanding of English is always going to be different but formal assessments ignore this #languageoppression