Coca-Cola's Super Bowl advert caused a furore
Coca-Cola's advert during the annual American football league championship caused a heated media debate about racism and the image of America as a multicultural nation.
Read more: The New Yorker
Welsh government slashed funding for language learning
The Welsh government announced that it is cutting its funding for the National Centre for Languages (CILT Cymru) by two-thirds. CILT Cymru encourages children to learn foreign languages, but is facing a drop in funding from £600,000 to £200,000 in April because of austerity measures.
Read more: BBC
London polyglot kid named European Commission's young translator of the year
A London schoolboy, from the Westminster School, has won the European Commission's annual translating competition for sixth formers. Walker Thompson, who can speak 10 languages, beat the 294 other entries with his translation from French into English, judged by official EU translators.
Read more: Europe in the UK
In Kentucky, coding might soon be considered a foreign language
The Kentucky Senate passed a bill that will allow public schools to count computer programming classes toward fulfilling foreign language requirements. Supporters of the bill want to encourage students to take up programming because they believe it will boost their employability skills.
Read more: PolicyMic
Where did that word come from? – quiz
The deputy chief editor of the Oxford Dictionary wrote a quiz for us about the origins of words. Test your knowledge.
Read more: the Guardian
