Arabic Teaching Hub Opens in Abu Dhabi
Zayed University in Abu Dhabi has launched an Arabic education hub to help the Emirates’ drive to encourage wider use of the language. The Zai Centre will explore how Arabic is taught across the...
Babies Retain Birth Language
A new study has found that languages learned very early in life are subconsciously retained even when there is no conscious memory of the early experience remaining. The study, conducted by Radboud University, Western...
Berlin
On November 9, 1989, the border between East and West Berlin opened. The German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) reunited under a modified FRG constitution almost a year later...
Netflix Unveils Subtitling Test and Spanish-Language Drama
Nearly half of the Netflix’s 93 million subscribers now come from outside of the US., so soon, English will no longer be platform’s dominant viewing language, the company said in a blog post.
In the...
Philadelphia Nonprofit Donates Spanish-Language Books to Detained Children
UPDATE: Mighty Writers was not permitted to deliver the books to the detention center. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, "An ICE official told me Tuesday night that the detention center has an overabundance of...
Caretakers Japanese Level Raises Concerns in Nursing
Japan eased the language ability requirements in its move to bring in foreign technical trainees in nursing care. Although the relaxed requirements have been lauded as a way to alleviate the chronic shortage of...
French in the Alps
Visit the Alps
Breathtaking mountains and deep valleys form Alpine France which borders Switzerland and Italy. The paradiscal city of Gap is one of the most significant cities in the Southern Alps. Rich in color,...
Young Bilingual Brains; German Gender Disagreement; German Dialects
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Young Bilingual Brains May Age Better Bilingual children and adolescents may grow up with more grey matter, according to a new studyGerman Gender Disagreement Disagreement in Germany over use of an asterisk to...
Canada Boosts Support for French in the Territories
Major funding increases for Francophone communities in the western Canadian territories of Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut have been announced. For more than three decades, the Government of Canada has supported the implementation...
Latvia May Restrict Russian
Latvia, a former member of the Soviet Union that shares a border with Russia, could move to restrict the Russian language in workplaces, according to the country’s deputy prime minister.
Jānis Bordāns, who also serves...