UN to Promote News in Local African Languages
The United Nations (UN) is ready to partner with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) to promote production of news in local languages across...
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UN Combats False Claims on Cantonese
Multiple recent posts on Facebook and Twitter that claim
that the United Nations (UN) has officially defined Cantonese as a language and
not a dialect and...
Tensions Rise over Hindi Dominance
India’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah stirred a social media debate in the country on Saturday after he pitched Hindi as a common language...
Multilingual Focus for UN Literacy Day
"about 40% of the world’s population does not have access to education in a language they speak or understand" Audrey Azoulay, director-general...
Japan Takes Responsibility for Language
Japan’s parliament, the Diet, has responded to the steady growth of foreign residents by passing a law making the government responsible for Japanese-language education....
Experts Not Hopeful on Vietnam’s English Targets
Education experts are expressed concern that the targets set for Vietnam’s foreign language proficiency are set to fail at a recent meeting on English...
Ebola Crisis Sparks Language Research in Democratic Republic of Congo
Humanitarians and health care providers in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC) are questioning what language to use when communicating
with people at risk of Ebola....
500 Million Portuguese Speakers by 2100
According to José Luís Carneiro, Portugal’s secretary of state for Portuguese communities abroad, “By 2060, the Portuguese language is predicted to be spoken by...
Beyoncé in Kiswahili
Beyoncé has released a song featuring lyrics in Kiswahili, one of Africa’s more widely spoken languages.
The song, “Spirit,” is featured on the Lion...
House Boosts Language Funding in Defense Bill
Last month, the House of Representatives voted unanimously to include the World Language Advancement and Readiness Act (WLARA) as an amendment to the National...
Macron Called to Protect French
In an open letter published in Le Parisien last month from the French Language Collective (Le collectif langue française) with over 100 signatories, French...
Spanish Teacher Training for Africa
The Instituto Cervantes and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) are organizing training programs for Spanish teachers in five African...
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...
