New Arabic Publishing Strategy Announced
The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Culture and Youth has launched a new strategy to overhaul its literature and publishing industry. Noura Al Kaabi, minister of culture and youth, announced the move on the...
How to Pass High School Mandarin
Larry grew up in the US. His parents were from Cantonese-speaking areas, and both are highly educated and very competent in English. Larry is English dominant but has excellent oral/aural competence in his heritage...
New Arabic Publishing Strategy Announced
The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Culture and Youth has launched a new strategy to overhaul its literature and publishing industry. Noura Al Kaabi, minister of culture and youth, announced the move on the...
Potential of Light Literature
Regardless of the reason for coming to the US, all immigrant children who speak a language other than English share a common risk: the danger of losing their mother tongue.
Maintaining one’s native language is...
Backlash against Indian Government Push to Make Hindi Dominant
A move by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to make Hindi the country’s dominant language has been met with an atmosphere of hostility and friction.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has been accused of...
Russia Bans Use of Foreign Words
Last month, Russia’s Duma (lower legislative assembly) adopted a bill that forbids the use of foreign words in Russian, unless there is no commonly used Russian equivalent.
Moscow is looking to protect the Russian language...
France to introduce compulsory language tests for migrants
French lawmakers are increasing efforts to make it harder to stay in France long term if you don’t speak French. A new immigration bill presented on February 1st, outlines measures to introduce a compulsory...
Timor-Leste Changes Law to Enforce Portuguese in Schools
Timor-Leste (East Timor) is to amend its education law to enforce the use of Portuguese in schools.
The young nation’s minister of Education Armindo Maia announced that changes would be made to the 2008 Basic...
Maine Preserves French Heritage Via Newspapers
The Maine State library is seeking French-language newspapers in an effort to digitally preserve the culture of the state’s Franco-American community.
The project was inspired by the work of Franco-American culture programs at the University...
Swedish AI Models Preserve 500 Years of History
The National Library of Sweden is harnessing AI technology developed by NVIDIA to preserve almost half a millennium of literature in digital form.
The library, renowned for archiving ancient and modern Swedish literature, is now...