Celebrating Samoan Language Week 2023
This week marked annual celebrations of Samoan Language Week or - Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa, which was largely observed in the Polynesian Islands,...
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Spanish through Music & Friendship in Tijuana
Univoice Corporation, the developer of a language-learning platform that teaches languages exclusively through music, has started its first learning class in Tijuana, Mexico. This...
What Assembly Bill 5 Means for Linguists
On Sept 18th, California Governor Gavin Newsom
signed Assembly Bill 5 (CA AB 5) into law which will take effect in January.
The new California state...
Healthcare Hurdles for Limited English Proficient Patients
People whose first language is not English deal with
additional hurdles to their healthcare. For non-native English speakers,
talking to a doctor or dentist can mean...
Celebrate National Teach Spanish Day!
September 30 is National Teach Spanish Day. Launched by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), the goals of the day...
Washington Post Launches New Spanish-Language Post Opinión
The Washington Post has launched a new Spanish-language opinions
section on their website, Post Opinión. The section pulls from editors cross-border
in Washington D.C. and Mexico,...
Boosting English Language Education in Saudi Arabia in an Unexpected Way
Online learning is quickly gaining popularity in the world of education, but there is a unique type of online learning that is often forgotten....
Poll Finds out What Latino Voters Want in Presidential Candidate
UnidosUS, the United State’s largest nonprofit advocacy organization,
has recently released its 2020 National Latino Electorate Survey. The Survey
was based on a poll conducted by...
International Poll Reveals Language Choices
According to recent international research by YouGov, English is accepted as the most important language for children to learn, but Chinese is catching up...
Univision and Twitter Sign Spanish Accord
Univision Communications and Twitter have agreed upon a partnership “to better serve the Hispanic community” by enabling Twitter to distribute Univision’s Spanish-language entertainment, sports,...
Spanish-Language Cuban Radionovelas to Be Digitized
From the 1930s to the 1950s, Cuba exported more Spanish-language daytime and nighttime radio shows than any other nation in the Spanish-speaking world. When...
‘Vague’ Language of Male Researchers Wins More Grants
A new study in Nature has found that grant reviewers favor vague and broad terminology used more often by men, despite the fact that...
How Internet Slang Enters ASL Vernacular
As the Oxford dictionary updates its lexicon with Internet-y terms such as “lolcat” (a photograph of a cat accompanied by a humorous and typically...
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