Costa Rican Spanish
Like most places, Costa Rica has its own unique words, phrases, and uses of language, so even fluent Spanish speakers can learn...
Netflix to Adapt Spanish Masterpiece
Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s literary masterwork One Hundred Years of Solitude is coming to the screen. Netflix has acquired the...
Afrikaans Phased Out
South Africa’s University of Pretoria has begun phasing out Afrikaans as its official teaching language and replacing it with English. This move...
Digital Mandarin Classes for All
China’s Ministry of Education has announced plans to train teachers and improve infrastructure for digital education in the poorer areas of the...
Celebrating French and la Francophonie
Every year, speakers of French unite globally to celebrate Francophonie Week from March 17–25 and UN French Language Day on March 20. This year’s theme was “The...
Japanese Teacher Certification to Ease Immigration Boom
kabukicho districtJapan’s government is planning to set up a nationally recognized accreditation program for teachers of Japanese, to help improve the language education of foreign workers, as...
Spanish Ballot Win in Florida
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced Thursday that he would ensure that Spanish-language ballots are available across the state. The announcement comes...
Germans Resist Gender Modifications
On March 6, more
than seventy high-profile Germans, including linguists, teachers, journalists,
lawyers, and writers, published a letter and an accompanying petition that
condemned new...
Chinese for All Saudi Arabian Schools
During a recent trip to China by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman (MbS), the Saudi Foreign Ministry announced that the kingdom had
committed...
Booksellers Donate Spanish Books to Refugees
The American Booksellers Association arranged for booksellers, authors, and publishers attending its Winter Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to donate Spanish-language books for refugees waiting at the...