This is the first of two episodes which we are releasing simultaneously, celebrating the different languages of the world, of Leeds, and of students and staff at Leeds Trinity. This episode is a companion to a series of posters we’ve put up around our Horsforth campus, profiling five different languages spoken by students and staff: Akan, Romanian, Italian, Polish, and Urdu. Richard talks to Amna, a student who provided the content for our poster on Urdu, and learns about the way Urdu, Hindi and other languages are often blended in informal conversation in the UK – we also hear part of a poem in Urdu which Amna wrote for our earlier World Poetry Day poster campaign. Then we hear from Laura, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, who features on our Italian poster, and tells us about the Veneto dialect which she grew up speaking, the different contexts in which she uses Italian and English, and how she became an official ambassador of the Accademia della Crusca for the endangered word ‘Sdrucciolevole’ (listen to find out what it means!)
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