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Which languages do Basel's streets speak?

Miriam Castro Rodríguez and Johannes Ritter report on how a seminar project turned into a research internship and an academic publication.

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SuK graduate founds language museum

SuK graduate Florence Aggeler founded the Sprachpanorama museum in Laufenburg (AG) in 2017. On an area of 250 square meters, subjects such as dialect, language history, languages and language families, reading and writing are skillfully made comprehensible to a wide audience.

The main aim of the museum is to raise awareness of our language and communication. The Sprachpanorama project aims to promote a comprehensive understanding of language as a central tool and cultural asset in an entertaining way, as well as a responsible approach to it at various levels. We met Florence Aggeler to talk about her time as a student and how she became a museum curator...