Lingua Cafe, July 19, 2023

Lingua Café is an online language exchange open to anyone within the Team CommUNITY community who is interested in improving their language skills - for professional or personal reasons - and getting to connect with other community members in the process. The internet freedom space is multilingual and multi-cultural, however discource is still primarily in English. The language exchange will aim to create a more linguistically inclusive and diverse environment for community to collaborate in.

مساحة اللغات (Lingua Café) : هي مساحة رقمية لتبادل اللغات للأشخاص المهتمين بتحسين مهاراتهم للغات المتاحة -– العربية والإنجليزية والإسبانية والفرنسية ولغات أخرى نطمح بإضافتها مستقبلاً- سواء لأسباب مهنية أو شخصية والتواصل مع أعضاء المجتمع الرقمي الآخرين أو "TeamCommunity" ، في مساحة حرة عبر الإنترنت، متعددة اللغات الثقافات. ومع ذلك، لا يزال الحوار يعتمد بشكل أساسي على اللغة الإنجليزية. حيثُ سيهدف تبادل اللغات إلى خلق بيئة لغوية أكثر شمولًا وتنوعاً داخل المجتمع الرقمي.

Lingua Café es un intercambio lingüístico en línea abierto a cualquier persona de la comunidad Team CommUNITY que esté interesada en mejorar sus conocimientos lingüísticos -por motivos profesionales o personales- y en conectar con otras personas de la comunidad en el proceso. El espacio de la libertad en Internet es multilingüe y multicultural, pero la fuente de información sigue siendo principalmente el inglés. El intercambio de idiomas pretende crear un entorno más inclusivo y diverso desde el punto de vista lingüístico para que la comunidad colabore.

• Date: Wednesday, July 19
• Time: 11am EDT / 3pm UTC
• Who: Facilitated by Erin, Sole, and Shaimaa
• Where: Lingua Cafe Channel on TCU Mattermost
  • Join the Lingua Cafe MatterMost channel. Don't have an account to the IFF Mattermost? you can request one following the directions here.

Found in Translation: Lingua Cafe Chats 💬

Between 2021 and 2022, Lingua Cafe has connected community members from the digital rights, open technology and internet freedom to give and take languages. The LC monthly online sessions promoted Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and more, and were co-facilitated with participants.

LC's peer learning was also unique experience to leverage the knowledge around our different cultures and backgrounds. The language exchange brought us closer together by talking about different topics, such as sports, culture, festivities, and food. In 2023 LC took a step back to build upon its past experiences and rethink its contribution as a space for Networking, Language Advocacy, Language Skill Building, Language Inclusion and Equity.

This last semester of the year we are organising a series of chat-based community learning sessions on our LC MatterMost channel. We will invite special guests to talk about issues such as: a) language translations fostering communities of learning; b) digital technologies enhancing language inclusion; and c) collective efforts and overlooked voices in language inclusion.

Laura Vidal will share about her background in language inclusion and experiences through podcasts and MozFest. Laura has been working on language inclusion with Mozilla Festival since 2021. She’s also a doctor in informal learning, specialized in online communities and intercultural exchange.

Notes

Notes will be posted here in English, Spanish and Arabic