Unlocking the Vietnamese Language: A Student’s Perspective in Saigon
Vietnam—the land of delicious food, viral-worthy motorcycle traffic, immense history, and… language classes? Learning Vietnamese is definitely not on the radar for many language...
Project Seeks to Preserve Syriac
Texas A&M University historian Dr. Daniel Schwartz and likeminded colleagues from around the world have been working to help preserve Syriac and its 2,000...
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June 2013
L’ Histoire de Notre Succès
Benoît Le Dévédec reveals why New York’s French Heritage Language Program has been such a success
Closing the Vocabulary Gap
Alex Rappaport...
Russian Language Day
Moscow’s Renaissance Moscow Olympic Hotel offers a unique opportunity to learn Russian and become closer to the Russian culture.
Every Tuesday at 6:30pm in the...
French Regions Have Their Voice
About 50,000 campaigners for French regional language rights have called on UNESCO to grant them "cultural asylum" and accused the French state of systematic...
Arabizi Sparks Fears for Arabic’s Future
At a conference in Dubai last month, fears were raised that the trend among young Arabs to speak either a foreign language or a...
Two More Confucius Institutes in Pakistan
The Chinese Ministry of Education has approved setting up of two more Confucius institutes in Pakistan, according Pakistan’s Ambassador to the country, Masood Khan.
Writing...
French in Canada
The minister responsible for Bill 14 says “mutual anxiety” about language in the francophone and anglophone communities is making her job a tough one.
During...
Three Languages for Catalan University Grads
The Generalitat of Catalonia announced in April that it would require future university students to have knowledge of a third language to earn a...
Castilian Spanish Rules in Catalan Classrooms
A Catalan court has ruled that if a family in Catalonia wants more hours of instruction in Castilian Spanish, the school must comply. However,...
All Spanish Equal
The head of Spain’s Real Academia de la Lengua (Royal Spanish Academy, or RAE) said last month that Latin American variations of Spanish in...
Soccer Giants Defend Catalan
After Spain's education minister stated that he was drafting a proposal to make the teaching of Castilian Spanish obligatory in schools throughout the country,...
Spanish Center for Harvard
Spain's Instituto Cervantes is creating a Spanish-language center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, the goal of which is to...
Interview with Clay Pell
The nation’s new language czar speaks with Language Magazine
Last month, the Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education announced the appointment of a new...