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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The Spread of Survival Spanish for Police Officers and Firefighters
From online Spanish courses in Illinois to mandatory classroom sessions in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and California, police officers and firefighters in largely Spanish speaking...
Marvel Celebrates Free Comic Book Day in Spanish
¡Feliz día del cómic gratis!
May 2nd is national Free Comic Book Day, and Marvel is offering for the first time a free, multi-story, Spanish...
Are Arabic Schools in France Really Hotbeds for Radicalism?
Secret report accuses French heritage-language programs of ghettoizing and radicalizing French-born youth
French conservatives are in an uproar over a 2013 report that recently surfaced...
Protesting the Common Core
Some states, such as Utah and California, very clearly allow students to opt out of annual testing for any reason, according to a research...
Oklahoma Senator Reintroduces the English Language Unity Act
This week, Senator Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, reintroduced the English Language Unity Act. The legislation would mandate that the federal government use...
Write to the US Senate to Protect World Language Education
The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee of the United States Senate has released a draft of the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
Tonal Languages Use Both Sides of the Brain
Language learning and processing is usually dominated by the left side of the brain, which is adept at tasks that involve logic and analytical...
Tanzania Drops English for Kiswahili
Since Tanzania's independence from Britain in 1961, public education has been bilingual, beginning with Kiswahili - known as Swahili in the West - in...
Using Smart Technology to Preserve Aboriginal Languages
Recently, the New South Wales (NSW) Aboriginal affairs minister Victor Dominello announced $185,000 in funding for the development of an app to support the...
How Internet Slang Enters ASL Vernacular
As the Oxford dictionary updates its lexicon with Internet-y terms such as “lolcat” (a photograph of a cat accompanied by a humorous and typically...
Promote Youth Literacy with Read Across America Day
Read Across America Day is held on March 2nd, the birthday of children's author Dr. Seuss, and is celebrated with events and activities designed...
A Call For Diversity in Mobile App Languages
The mobile app market reached over 1.3 million available applications in July of 2014 and continues to be a booming business medium. Still greatly...