Chinese ‘Linguistic Coup’ in East Africa
As part of its goal to displace American influence, China is winning linguistic hearts in East Africa (a bloc of 300 million people), by...
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Netflix Produces Two Original Spanish-Language Series
Last summer, Netflix announced the production of its first Spanish-Language original series, Club de Cuervos. The series, which centers on a family feud among...
1st Bilingual Education Fair of Los Angeles is May 3rd
Language Magazine is sponsoring Los Angeles’ first Bilingual Education Fair to be held on May 3rd at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus....
Confessions of a Hyperpolyglot
Timothy Doner has been referred to “The World's Youngest Hyperolyglot” by various media outlets, and has been interviewed on his passion for words and...
California Nominates ELL Advocates to Board of Education
California Governor Jerry Brown filled the last two openings in the 11-member California State Board of Education by nominating Ting Lan Sun, an executive...
Constructed Language and Game of Thrones’ Linguistic Lure
Game of Thrones premieres this weekend and this season more and more people will be able to understand the two subtitled fantasy languages of...
The Endangered Language Alliance
The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), an independent non-profit founded in 2010 by a team of linguists, recently worked with Grubin Productions to produce the...
Arizona Adds Educational Options for Students on Tribal Lands
On April 7th Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill to officially expand Arizona's innovate Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program, offering unprecedented educational options to...
Less Testing May Help Every Child Achieve
After weeks of negotiations, U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have released draft legislation designed to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary...
Emojis and the Language of the Internet
People have been complaining about language being ruined by younger generations for thousands of years. Linguist John McWhorter noted that a Roman scholar in...
French to Stop Fight Against Foreign Words
Fleur Pellerin, France’s minister of culture, reversed four centuries of French linguistic policy by declaring that France’s resistance to the incursion of English words...
Swedish Dictionary Officially Includes Gender-Neutral Pronoun
The Swedish Academy's SAOL dictionary is being republished on April 15, 2015 with thousands of new words. Among them is the gender-neutral pronoun “hen”,...
Bridging the North and South Korean Language Divide
Cheil Worldwide has launched a mobile app called “Univoca: South Korean-North Korean Translator," to help North Korean defectors in South Korea easily communicate in...
