Marzanna Antoniak is an ESOL teacher and former Community Connector in Govanhill. Here she reflects on teaching English in the community as well as chatting to community organisations about how they overcome language barriers in their work.

“With an intimate knowledge of groups, activities and resources available locally, community link workers play a crucial role in mapping local support systems – keeping individuals and GP practices up to speed with the services available.” - Lottie Hanwell on link workers, writing for our language issue.

– Musimy zdać sobie sprawę, jak wielki wpływ na zdrowie psychiczne oraz fizyczne mogą mieć nasza sytuacja osobista i społeczna – mówi Leanne. This is the translated version of an article on community link workers, which first appeared in our language issue.

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In our regular feature ‘My Life Before Govanhill’ we find out from the diverse community of Govanhill what they got up to before settling around Victoria Road. In this edition, we meet Dana Czerepkova.

“Plants seem to have a language of their own, with which they communicate to us their medicinal properties. In turn, humans have developed various ways of transmitting plant lore, knowledge and medicinal uses of herbs and other plants.” - Beti Scott, Movement in Thyme.

Govanhill is an area where you can walk down the street and hear a different language every step. In fact, one study recorded 88 different languages spoken on Victoria Road after sampling 200 people from one street. But what’s it like to grow up in a multilingual household? Some locals shared their experiences for our language issue.

City of Empire is a new community-led exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum that uncovers Glasgow’s deep-rooted links to empire and slavery. Zara Grew met up with the exhibition's Community Curator to find out more.

Last year the people of Govanhill got the chatbot they didn’t know they needed; a sharp-tongued weegie one. We got comedian Bruce Morton to test it out before the now defunct website was taken down. 

In this month of Roma News and Views, Rahela writes about the importance of language preservation and how Romanes, the language spoken by Roma people is being learned by people from Roma and non-Roma backgrounds.

In this month of Roma News and Views, Rahela writes about the importance of language preservation and how Romanes, the language spoken by Roma people is being learned by people from Roma and non-Roma backgrounds.

এই অংশে, বাংলাদেশ অ্যাসোসিয়েশন গ্লাসগো, ভাষা-গ্লাসগোর ভাষা উৎসবের পেছনের দল, উৎসবের শিকড় সম্পর্কে আমাদের আরও জানায়। ভাষাগত বৈচিত্র্যের একটি প্রাণবন্ত উদযাপন, বাংলা সংরক্ষণের লড়াইয়ে অনুপ্রাণিত।