Learning Chinese Stimulates Both Temporal Lobes
New evidence suggests that studying Chinese and learning to write Chinese characters may train a whole array of cognitive abilities not developed by learning...
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Spanish Election Optimistic for Multilingualism
Nehemías Giménez García sees a boost for multilingualism in a multi-party government.
On Sunday, December 20th, the Spanish democratic system won. The general election results, boasting...
Fire Destroys Museum of the Portuguese Language
A huge blow to the city of São Paulo and Portuguese-language enthusiasts everywhere, the Museu da Língua Portuguesa (Museum of the Portuguese Language) went...
Korea Expands French Programs for Olympics
French is predicted to be the most spoken world language by 2050 and in accordance with this, the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF) has widened...
Celebrate World Arabic Language Day
December 18th is UN Arabic Language Day, an occasion, "to celebrate the language of 22 Member States of UNESCO, a language with more than 422...
Star Wars Language Creator Discovered on YouTube
With the opening of the newest Star Wars film, Sara Maria Forsberg, a 21-year-old from Pietarsaari, Finland, can now speak openly about her work creating an...
Spain to Promote English with Subtitles
With general elections just days ahead, Spain’s Partido Popular (PP) has proposed a plan to support education, and a significant aspect of the plan...
Adopt an Emoji, Save a Language
The Unicode Consortium, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the computing industry standard for digital writing systems, is allowing people to adopt an emoji or any Unicode...
Obama Calls ESEA Reauthorization a Christmas Miracle
This morning, President Obama signed the new iteration of the 50-year old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Before signing the bill the President...
The True Tongue of the Tsimshian Tribe
The language of the Tsimshian tribe of the Pacific Northwest is called Sm'algyax (alternatively spelled Shm'algyack), which directly translates to, “real or true tongue.”...
The Philly Sign Language Accent
About 130 of the world's estimated 6,500 languages are mutually unintelligible forms of sign language. Sign languages can be broken up into linguistic families and are...
Even Lost Languages Rewire Brain
Research also demonstrates brain's plasticity and ability to adapt to new language environments
In a paper published in December's Nature Communications, researchers from Canada's McGill...
Chinese Language Trouble with the New Zealand Census
Chinese would be the third most common language spoken in New Zealand (NZ) if the NZ Chinese Language Week Trust goes along with its...
