Multinational Move to Modernize Greek
Three organizations from countries with significant Greek communities are coming together to modernize the Greek language and the way it is taught. Macquarie University in...
Swahili to Be Taught in Malawi’s Schools
President of Malawi Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the country’s education sector to immediately introduce the Swahili language to school curriculums, aiming to ease business...
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Multinational Move to Modernize Greek
Three organizations from countries with significant Greek communities are coming together to modernize the Greek language and the way it is taught. Macquarie University in...
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Multinational Move to Modernize Greek
Three organizations from countries with significant Greek communities are coming together to modernize the Greek language and the way it is taught. Macquarie University in...
Spanish Genders Fluctuate in Argentina
In Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, the local Education Ministry, headed by María Soledad Acuña, forbade the use of inclusive language in schools, claiming that...
Swahili to Be Taught in Malawi’s Schools
President of Malawi Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the country’s education sector to immediately introduce the Swahili language to school curriculums, aiming to ease business...
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Using foreign language increases rationality
A new study from psychologists at the University of Chicago and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona finds that people using a foreign language...
Twitter Ads Targeted by Language
Social media giant Twitter has launched a new feature that will allow advertisers to target users based on their language.
The ‘language targeting’ feature will...
Spanish Blog Contest
Online Spanish is growing fast - it is now the third most-used language on the internet by number of users, according to a report...
CA Senate Committee Recommends Restoring Bilingual Education
California’s Senate Education Committee has recommended that the state’s voters be asked to repeal Proposition 227, the 1998 initiative requiring public school instruction in...
100,000 Strong in the Americas Website Launch
Today, the U.S. Department of State unveiled a new 100,000 Strong in the Americas website available at www.100kstrongamericas.org. President Obama launched 100,000 Strong in...
Celebrate First Bilingual Literacy Month
Read Conmigo, the bilingual literacy campaign for children sponsored by Infinity Auto Insurance, has declared the first annual Bilingual Literacy Month this May. As...
Sacramento Rally Against Common Core
Protesters in Sacramento, CA held a rally yesterday against the introduction of Common Core standards.
Many California schools have already implemented changes and students...
Aboriginal Education Bill Faces Backlash
Shawn Atleo, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) faces criticism this week, after supporting a government bill described as a...
UN Language & Equality Symposium
Language Magazine editor Daniel Ward will be presenting a paper on Fostering Multilingualism in Anglophone Countries at a United Nations Symposium on Language and...
ETS Suspends TOEIC & TOEFL iBT for UK Visas
Following the broadcast of a BBC television documentary in February which highlighted an organized criminal element seeking to circumvent the U.K.'s visa-granting process, ETS...
Songs Help Cubans Trace Roots to Sierra Leone
The Ganga-Longoba of Perico, Cuba, have sung the same chants for decades – passing the traditions on from generation to generation.
Until now, the singers...
Alaska Senate Passes Native Language Bill
The Alaska Senate voted this morning to make each of Alaska’s native languages, official languages of the state.
Twenty-one indigenous languages, including :Iñupiaq,...
