Iñupiaq in Action
This past fall, we were writing animal counting stories in my first-grade class. I had one of the best experiences as I was working...
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Congress Approves Extra $15M for World Languages
On Monday, December 21, the U.S. Congress passed the Fiscal Year 2021 Appropriations package, which provided $15m in new funding for the World Languages...
The UK Implements PRELIM – the Partnered Remote Language Improvement Project
Major English language organizations have partnered in the UK to improve language teaching standards in 20 countries, starting in the 2021. The British Council,...
Our Brains Interpret Coding Differently from Language
A new study out of MIT reports that brains interpret computer code differently from non-digital languages. According to the study, neuroscientists have found that...
Celebrate UN Arabic Language Day
The Arabic language is a pillar of the cultural diversity of humanity. It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world,...
Indonesia to Digitize Indigenous Scripts
UNESCO and the Indonesian Internet Domain Registry (PANDI) have announced plans to work on digitizing the Indigenous scripts of Indonesia through an initiative called...
Study Shows Brain’s Innate Capacity for Reading
The human brain is predisposed to visualizing words, even before individuals acquire literacy, according to a team of researchers at Ohio State University.
Their paper,...
Hungary’s English-Speaking Kindergartens in Trouble
A dozen English-medium kindergartens have received a letter from the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources (EMMI) informing that English is a non-ethnic language in...
Language Affects How We Perceive Motion
The way our native language employs verbs of motion—words like “go,” “run” or “descend”—may have an effect on how we perceive those motions, according...
Connecting the Dots
Whatever the outcome of this month’s U.S. election and however bad the second wave of COVID-19 hits this winter, our world will continue to...
Moldova to Relax Restrictions on Russian
Andrew Warner reports on moves to bolster the status of the Russian language in Moldova
Parliament of Moldova in Chisinau.
Chisinau, Moldova.
The outgoing president of...
Cambridge Dictionary announces ‘quarantine’ as Word of the Year 2020
Cambridge Dictionary has announced ‘quarantine’ as Word of the Year 2020, after data shows it was one of the most highly searched words on...
Card Game Aims to Revitalize Traditional Mongolian Script
The traditional Mongolian writing system—a vertical top-to-bottom, left-to-right alphabet—dates all the way back to the early days of the Mongol Empire. However, in the...
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