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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Simple Speech May Slow Autistic Children
A new study, published in Cognition, suggests that because parents speak to their autistic children using fewer words and less complex sentences than do...
Mother Tongue Affects What You See
In a recent study, published in Psychological Science, Martin Maier and Rasha Abdel Rahman at the Humboldt University of Berlin examined how native language...
Bilingual Advocate to Head CA Education
Democratic Assemblyman Tony Thurmond managed to come from behind to emerge as California’s new superintendent of public instruction, beating out Marshall Tuck, a fellow...
‘Nomophobia’ is the UK People’s Word of 2018
The UK's Cambridge Dictionary has declared nomophobia, the word that describes the stress and anxiety caused by being separated from your mobile device, as...
Bringing Chinese to Preschoolers
Lauren Cortinas presents a
solution for the youngest learners of Mandarin
In October 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing entirely...
Progress on Migrant and Refugee Education Worldwide
UNESCO’s 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report, Migration, displacement and education, shows that the number of migrant and refugee school-age children around the world today...
Office Evacuation
UPDATE, 11/20: EVACUATION OVER AND POWER RESTORED :)
Language Magazine's office and the homes of most of our team have been under mandatory evacuation for...
Russian Bill Threatens Native Languages
The lower house of Russia’s parliament has approved a controversial bill on the teaching of native languages in schools. In the draft law approved...
Hindi Adds 100 Million Speakers
According to the largest language census in Indian history, Hindi added 100 million new speakers between 2001 and 2011—a 25% rise, while 19,569 different...
Dónde Votar
Google Trends, which tracks the use of search terms, tweeted this morning that “Dónde Votar” was the top trending search on Google, spiking by more...
K-pop Inspires Korean Learners
For the first time ever, the No 1 album in the U.S. features lyrics sung mostly in Korean. Love Yourself: Tear by K-pop group...
