Multilingual Manchester

International Mother Language Day is held every year on 21 February to promote awareness of language diversity and multilingualism. Led by UNESCO, it has been observed across the world since 2000, inspired by events surrounding the Bengali language movement in...

Multilingual Manchester is working with Migrant Support to deliver interpreter skills training as part of a project that seeks to understand migrant experience of English language learning, and translation and interpreting provision in the City of Manchester. Dr...

The Dialects of Arabic web resource has now been launched. It features a database that compares dialects of Arabic from fifteen different countries, and will be of use to researchers, students of Arabic, and practitioners in forensic linguistics working on Language...

A new MLM paper, titled 'Urban Multilingualism and the Civic University: A Dynamic, Non-Linear Model of Participatory Research', will appear in the journal Social Inclusion. Drawing on the example of Multilingual Manchester, the paper shows how a university research...

We are offering small grants to support film production on the subject of world and community languages (priority is being given to students and recent graduates of The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at The University of Manchester). More information is...

Girls in Manchester are more likely than boys to have ‘unique’ names, and the names given to children are likely to reflect parents’ home languages and cultures, according to a new study carried out by Multilingual Manchester. Amy Portwood asked 120 local mothers...

Join us for a free family-friendly day of activities to celebrate Manchester's many languages and cultures! Levenshulme Language Day 2017 will take place at The Klondyke Club, Arcadia Library and Levenshulme Market. Activities include language taster sessions, stalls,...

Research by Multilingual Manchester has found that leaving the European Union may reduce levels of support for the teaching of English as an additional language, due to the withdrawal of EU funding. The new report, compiled by Dr Amelia Abercrombie through a grant...

The Multilingual Manchester team have been working with a group of schoolchildren from Burnley to help them design artwork featuring community languages that will revitalise their local train station. The team delivered activities on the theme of community languages...

Modern Linguists must craft their own reforms to reclaim the future of their discipline, write professors Stephen Hutchings and Yaron Matras. They call on universities to develop a compelling vision for Modern Languages research and teaching, and to capitalise on the...