Irish students to learn Gaeilge through Irish-language dance music videos
To celebrate the start of Irish language week on Saturday March 1, hundreds of thousands of people will take part in events in Killarney. As part of the programme of events, students will be making Irish-language versions of music videos, inspired by Seo Linn's version of Avicii's Wake Me Up.
Read more: Irish Independent
Are musicians better language learners?
"When children start studying music before the age of seven, they develop bigger vocabularies, a better sense of grammar and a higher verbal IQ. These advantages benefit both the development of their mother tongue and the learning of foreign languages."
Read more: the Guardian
Using online dating apps to practise vocab
The zeitgeist dating app, Tinder, is being used by a small subsection of the language community to meet up for conversation exchanges.
Read more: Bustle
The rise of Yiddish online
Despite English being the overwhelmingly predominant language of the internet, Yiddish is thriving online.
Read more: Slate
When made up languages go wrong
And finally, a long read from the archive. A linguist spends decades developing his own language only to lose control of the nefarious characters is using it.
Read more: The New Yorker
