Tag: languages
A Call For Diversity in Mobile App Languages
The mobile app market reached over 1.3 million available applications in July of 2014 and continues to be a booming business medium. Still greatly expanding, the Japanese app market surpassed the United States as...
Tonal Languages Like It Hot and Humid
A new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America links the evolution of tonal languages to climate, specifically to heat and humidity. The report,...
Learning Languages Modifies Brain Network
According to a Sino-American study published recently in the Journal of Neurolinguistics, learning a new language changes your brain network both structurally and functionally.
"Learning and practicing something, for instance a second language, strengthens the...
AIP Languages
AIP Language Institute is an Instituto Cervantes accredited school located in Valencia. They boast:
- One of the biggest Spanish schools in Valencia with 20 fully equipped classrooms.
- Exciting excursions organized through their own travel agency devoted to organizing study and cultural tours for...
World Languages at the Emmys and Oscars
Spanish-language programs are celebrating their nominations in a newly-created category at the International Emmy Awards for Non-English Language U.S. Primetime Program. Telemundo and Nat Geo Mundo swept the category, with Pasión Prohibida (Telemundo), La...
Poetry Festival Celebrates 12 American Languages
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is preparing for the sixth Festival de Poesía Las Lenguas de América, Carlos Montemayor (The Languages of America Poetry Festival, Carlos Montemayor), which will take place on October...
What’s Another 38 Official Languages?
Indians push to add 38 more languages to their constitution.
The Indian government is facing pressure to consider 38 more official languages to be added to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. The Eighth Schedule...
Sixty Mexican Languages at Risk of Extinction
Sixty of Mexico’s native languages are at risk of extinction - with 21 deemed “critically endangered”, according to a recent statement released by Mexico’s Centre of Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS).
Among...
US Education Secretary Supports Languages for All
"Today, a nation's prosperity depends on its people's ability to thrive in the global marketplace. This is true for the U.S. and for our neighbors across the globe.
What's more, in a nation as diverse...
Survey of World Languages in Congress
In an effort to create a broad picture of second language capabilities among Americans, the National Council for Languages and International Studies (NCLIS) (www.languagepolicy.org) surveyed members of Congress to find out how many of...