Language Professionals' Networking Event
Meet, connect and converse with like-minded linguists and language professionals.
After Gabriella Ferenczi's short welcome, we took part in an insightful thinking-together with Rakesh Bhanot, English language teaching professional. His talk was titled From DITTO to D.I.T.O.W. – Do It The Other/Opposite Way.
We kicked off the evening at City Business Library. Laura Patsko delivered a thought-provoking mini-workshop/talk on the countless ways English is spoken in the world, titled 'An English accent that everyone can understand.'
Language Professionals' Networking Event is a two-fold initiative: It's an independent monthly social gathering, non-profit, and it's purpose is to build a community of like-minded linguists of all fields. And we now also offer trainings and unique workshops to those in our audience and followers who are interested in certain areas and would like to learn more.
The library has some fantastic events that may be of interest to us language professionals. In January, the legend Prof. David Crystal gave a fantastic talk on the origins of English, accents, dialects and what English may sound like in 100 years' time. It was brilliant. Here's a link to the library's most recent event …
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Friday 14th December 2018 was an informal Christmas social at a stunning location: Tate Modern's 9th floor restaurant bar with spectacular views of the London skyline. We had an interesting mix of professions present: There were translators, language teachers and coaches, university students - studying education policy and language teaching, as well as two lovely multilingual …
