Comments on: List of Language Lovers On Twitter

By: TranslationforLawyers

TranslationforLawyers — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:13:02 +0000

Thank you for this blog post. Please follow us at http://twitter.com/LawTranslation

By: Victoria Vasilyeva

Victoria Vasilyeva — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:39:28 +0000

We've enjoyed checking out the other Twitters on your list. Please feel free to add us to your list: https://twitter.com/NOVALanguages

Many thanks!

Victoria

By: Gustavo Lucardi

Gustavo Lucardi — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:29:49 +0000

Hi, really I change the profile to http://twitter.com/_Translation_ but I couldn´t erase or change my previous post... could you Matthew? Thanks

By: MatthewBennett

MatthewBennett — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:11:54 +0000

Right, good, added. Quite hard to keep up with everybody sometimes. Thanks for mentioning it.

By: Lautaro Ius

Lautaro Ius — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:47:13 +0000

Also following you.

http://twitter.com/_Translator

Bests

By: Gustavo Lucardi

Gustavo Lucardi — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:40:02 +0000

Great list, I am following you, feel free to add Trusted Translations:

http://twitter.com/_Translations

Thank you, best regards

By: Irish polyglot

Irish polyglot — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:56:17 +0000

Great list! I'll get adding right away :) One way I use twitter linguistically that I find very few others do, is to tweet the same message in several languages. So my twitters are in English, Irish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Esperanto. Feel free to add any of those to your list if you like!

By: Irish polyglot

Irish polyglot — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:37:42 +0000

Matthew; the key for not annoying your readers is to have completely separate accounts for each language!! I only ever tweet in English in my English twitter, so non linguists can follow me without getting confused.

It's true that each tweet takes 5-10 minutes depending on the vocabulary I use (would be much less if I wasn't tweeting in 7 languages!) I use pidgin to handle multiple twitter logins (in Windows Thwirl is quite good for multiple accounts) and enable spell checking for each language individually. I tweet naturally in English, and then try to find a natural sounding translation in the other languages. It's an excellent way of maintaining fluency!! I literally have to write and keep my vocabulary up to date in each language every day! Since it's more time consuming, it also forces me to tweet less often (only once or twice a day max), which I think filters the quality. Otherwise I might have just spammed my twitter account every 10 minutes (I've had to un-follow people doing that because they take over my feed).

It also lets me have different networks of followers and "followees". Thanks for following me, I'll keep an eye on your progress!

By: Matthew Bennett

Matthew Bennett — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:12:33 +0000

Great! That's a fantastic effort, I'll add them all under 'I'.

I've been wondering about twitter and languages since I started tweeting 6 or 7 months ago. I went through a phase of tweeting everything in 2 or 3 languages but it became quite time consuming and I started wondering what effect it might have on people reading. I might start again.

By: Allison Weiss

Allison Weiss — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:31:21 +0000

Feel free to add me to the list. Twitter: weissallison K-12 Language Lab Coordinator (http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/wll)

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:22:27 +0000

Thanks for the list, good idea – I'm going to get adding.

By: Ramses

Ramses — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:42:48 +0000

Thank you for the link, more language feed! Jeje