Sunday 20 January 2019

Multilingualism and Mother Tongues - Joan Lennon

Charlemagne is reported to have said, "To have another language is to possess a second soul."*  I'd like to share Christine De Lucca's video about the place of Shetlandic in her life and writing, as a child and as an adult.



Christine's video is part of the Wikitongues project.  You can find out more about Wikitongues here.

* though of course he wouldn't have said it in English.

Joan Lennon's website.
Joan Lennon's blog.
Walking Mountain.

4 comments:

Penny Dolan said...

Delightful!!!

catdownunder said...

Fascinating - especially because I had to introduce the terms "makkin belt", "steek" and "peerie" to a group of knitters last week! ("knitting belt", "opening" and "small")

Joan Lennon said...

Thanks Penny and Catdownunder - I was utterly seduced by the beauty of her voice, let alone the interesting things she was saying!

Sue Purkiss said...

Absolutely, Joan - lovely!