{"id":19141,"date":"2020-05-01T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T19:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19141"},"modified":"2020-05-01T19:39:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T19:39:55","slug":"the-linguist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19141","title":{"rendered":"The Linguist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I was approached by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciol.org.uk\/\">Chartered Institute of Linguists<\/a> (CIOL) asking if I&#8217;d like to by interviewed for their journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciol.org.uk\/the-linguist\">The Linguist<\/a>. They were looking for linguists and others involved with languages who have set up language-related businesses.<\/p>\n<p>This sounded like a good thing to do, and I was interviewed over the phone. Some months latter I was sent a copy of their magazine with the interview in it. I didn&#8217;t mention at the time as I was waiting for it to be available online. It is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciol.org.uk\/the-linguist#ufh-i-597163890-the-linguist-59-1-february-march-2020\">available in the Februrary\/March edition<\/a> (page 7).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciol.org.uk\/the-linguist#ufh-i-597163890-the-linguist-59-1-february-march-2020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/thebigidea.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"543\" alt=\"part of my interview with The Linguist\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/\">Omniglot<\/a> &#8211; what it is, how it came to be, how I make a living from it, and my own language background.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering whether to join the CIOL &#8211; I would qualify for membership, I think. Are any of you members or this, or other professional organisations for linguists? Is it worth joining?<\/p>\n<p>In other news, this week I was interviewed, in French, for a <a href-\"https:=\"\" montessori-apprendreautrement.com=\"\" podcast=\"\" \"=\"\">podcast<\/a> by C\u00e9line Guerreiro. I&#8217;ll let you know when that is online. We talked about language learning, mainly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I was approached by the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) asking if I&#8217;d like to by interviewed for their journal, The Linguist. They were looking for linguists and others involved with languages who have set up language-related businesses. This sounded like a good thing to do, and I was interviewed over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19141"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19157,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141\/revisions\/19157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}