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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Study Abroad Campaign for K-12 Teachers
Today, the Institute of International Education (IIE) is officially launching a new campaign to recruit 1,000 K-12 teachers to join Generation Study Abroad, a...
Preserving Uchinaguchi through Cultural Capital
The culture of Okinawa, Japan is quite distinct from other Japanese islands. It became a part of Japan in 1879, but has a strong...
What does Bill Gates regret?
This week in an online Reddit chat, Bill Gates revealed his main regret:
“I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I...
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MANY LANGUAGES, ONE WORLD 2015 Student Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum
Seventy students will be selected as delegates to the 2015 United Nations Academic...
Tonal Languages Like It Hot and Humid
A new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America links the evolution of tonal...
Quebecer is 2015 TESOL Teacher of the Year
TESOL International Association and National Geographic Learning have announced that Sherry Blok of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, will receive the 2015 TESOL Teacher of the...
GOP Supports Immigration Reform in Spanish Only
For the third year in a row, the Republican Party delivered a Spanish-language response to the President’s State of the Union address. However, for...
California Needs an English Learner Advocate
Language Magazine is lending its support to twenty Californian education, social justice, and civil rights organizations encouraging the state’s governor, Jerry Brown to appoint...
Majority of US School Kids ‘Low Income’
For the first time in recent history, a majority of the schoolchildren attending U.S. public schools come from low income families, according to a...
Words of 2014 Expose Vapid Culture
Merriam-Webster named culture in all of its definitions as its word of the year for 2014, saying that culture was a "big word at...
Links that Speak
A new study mapping the flow of information online, and through book translations, found the languages that reach the most linguistically diverse readership tend to...
Rwanda Sued over Lack of French
Rwandan opposition party has filed a lawsuit with the central African nation's Supreme Court accusing the government of deliberately sidelining the French language in...
