Ontario Invests in French
The Canadian province of Ontario will invest about CAN$20 million in projects and initiatives to support students, parents, and teachers in French-language schools over the next twelve...
Jamaicans Urged to Learn Spanish
Jamaica’s minister of education, the Honorable Alando Terrelonge, is encouraging parents to be more open to the idea of their children learning Spanish as a second language.
Ukrainian Presidents at Odds Over Language
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has approved a law which obliges all citizens to know the Ukrainian language and makes it mandatory for civil servants, soldiers, doctors,...
Quality, Not Quantity
Andy Kaufman urges U.S. schools to recognize and credit Costa Rican immersion schools
As colleges and universities in the U.S. look to simplify their...
Serbia Urged to Support Minority Languages
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has published a new report on the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) in Serbia,...
Argentina Toasts to Spanish’s ‘Good Health’
Friends celebrating new years eve
At the end of March, the VIII International Congress of the Spanish Language (VIII Congreso Internacional de la...
Over 400 Languages May Have Originated in China
A new study by Menghan Zhang at Fudan University in Shanghai and his colleagues recently published in Nature explored the origin of...
Language Separating German Partners
According to a report by Deutsche Welle, Germany’s government-funded international broadcaster, nearly a third of prospective immigrants applying to join their partners...
Ontario Supports French-Language Education
The province of Ontario will invest $19.41 million in several projects and initiatives to support students, parents and teachers in French-language schools....
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...