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AI translators are getting more fluent – but communication is never just a matter of words

Speak into a phone and an app can render your words in another language in seconds. AI-powered speech translation can be fast, convenient and fluent. But fluency does not guarantee that people will understand one another.

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Tongue tied: Humans once spoke tens of thousands of languages, so what happened?

According to a study published in the journal Science, today's spoken languages are the legacy of a handful that survived a major "language bottleneck" in the past.

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Our omnivorous appetite: Rise of a seamless local-national consumer identity through vernacular creativity that AI will fuel

India is embracing an omnichannel identity, blending nationality and locality effectively. Localized content is experiencing a scalable resurgence, delighting businesses and creators. Technology and craft are uniting, creating new opportunities across various sectors. Regional languages and cultures are gaining prominence and economic value. This shift signifies a new era of…

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India among most critical markets: Zoom President of Product and Engineering, Velchamy Sankarlingam

Zoom views India as a vital market due to its large talent pool and innovation. The company is expanding its services and AI adoption within the country. Zoom has established technology and data centers in India to support its operations. They are investing in Zoom Phone and Contact Center solutions…

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How Horse Domestication Reshaped Civilization, Warfare, Trade, and Human History

The Moment Everything AcceleratedAround 3500 BCE, on the Pontic-Caspian steppe, the grasslands stretching across what is now Ukraine and Kazakhstan, humans first began riding horses rather than just eating them. The evidence comes from bit wear on the teeth of horses excavated at Dereivka, a site studied extensively by archaeologist…

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How App Nicknames and Shortened Links Create Confusion for Multilingual Messaging Users

Global messaging platforms often acquire regional nicknames as they move across languages and markets. These informal names can make an application easier to discuss, but they can also make search results, web logins, download pages, and invitation links more difficult to verify.

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Quote of the day by Elif Shafak: 'Do not go with the flow. Be the flow' and how to break passivity

Elif Shafak is a British-Turkish novelist, essayist, and academic. She is one of the most widely read Turkish authors in the world, with her work translated into nearly 60 languages. Her writing bridges Eastern and Western storytelling, weaving together history, Sufi mysticism, philosophy, and social critique. Beyond her literary output,…

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Japanese proverb of the day: 'Forgetting your native tongue means...' Life lessons from inspirational proverb on identity preservation, cultural roots, heritage, homeland and intergenerational connection

Japanese proverb of the day explores the traditional Okinawan saying, “Forgetting your native tongue means forgetting your native country.” The proverb explains the connection between language, identity, heritage, homeland and family traditions. It also highlights how language preserves memories, values and cultural history. Even in a world where people migrate…

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No, the Supreme Court didn’t declare unilingual Canadians ‘inferior’

The Supreme Court of Canada recently handed down a landmark decision on a narrow but important constitutional question: must the lieutenant governor of New Brunswick — the Crown’s representative in Canada’s only officially bilingual province — be able to perform the functions of that office in both official languages?

The Conversation

Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages?

Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilisation on the Greek island of Crete, has neither.

The Conversation

3000 years ago, a hidden chapter of human history was written in thousands of languages, then fell silent

For a long time, the assumption was that ancient history was a endless sea of thousands of small isolated tribes—meaning language diversity must have started at its highest point and steadily decayed. The new models show a very different story: a massive bell curve where language diversity peaked just 1,000…

The Economic Times

S Janaki's legacy rekindles debate on India's North-South cultural divide

Music lovers across India deserve to know more of this true Bharat ratna

The Economic Times

Why voice, not keyboards, may define AI's next chapter

The artificial intelligence race is shifting focus from model size to user interaction. Voice interfaces will soon replace keyboards for many everyday digital tasks. India's linguistic diversity presents a unique opportunity for multilingual conversational AI innovation. Industries like retail, banking, and healthcare will greatly benefit from voice AI. Trust and…

The Economic Times

Quote of the day by Mieko Kamiya, mother of ikigai: 'We did not create the morning... The meaning of life is like the morning'

Mieko Kamiya is widely remembered today as the mother of ikigai psychology, courtesy of the bestselling book by Hector Garcia and Francesc Iralles. Born in Japan in 1914, Mieko Kamiya grew up in an intellectually rich environment, living for periods in Switzerland and the United States. She spoke multiple languages…

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How can Year 7 and 8 students make the most of their electives?

Many students in years 7 and 8 begin choosing their own electives at school for the first time. These are typically subjects such as technology, arts, languages and music, that are taken alongside core units, including English, maths and science.

Times Life

When the Love You Keep Giving Finds No One in Your Relationship Built to Receive It

The Love That Has Nowhere to GoYou have always known how to show up. Not perfectly, nobody does, but with a particular quality of attention that other people notice and then, slowly, cannot handle. You remember what someone mentioned in passing three weeks ago. You check in without being asked.…

The Conversation

Why children learn English more easily with the help of their home language – Namibian study

Across Africa, millions of children grow up speaking African languages at home but are later expected to learn through English, French or Portuguese at school. This transition can make learning difficult, particularly when learners are required to understand new concepts in a language they are still developing.

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Play, pause, rewind – where do these universal media symbols come from?

The play symbol is one of the world’s most recognisable icons. Across languages, writing systems, and cultures, a single right-pointing triangle is widely understood as “start”.

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Fleeing by boat: Why the Namaygoosisagagun First Nation wildfire tragedy was so predictable

On July 13, the residents of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation in Northern Ontario watched a massive wildfire jump the rail line near their homes. Facing an approaching 350,000-hectare fire, just over two dozen people who were in the community at the time could not wait for official evacuation co-ordinates, government transport…

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3 Vocal Habits That Give You Instant Credibility and Speaking Authority in Any Room

Why Your Voice Gets Judged Before Your Words DoChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a speaker's tone reveals intention more reliably than content. He was advising kings on statecraft, but the observation holds in every boardroom, classroom, and family argument since. Before the listener processes what you are saying, they…

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French MPs approve assisted-dying law

On Wednesday, French lawmakers approved a bill that will create a legal right to assisted dying for adults with incurable illnesses. The issue has been championed by President Emmanuel Macron but has been highly contentious politically. Still - opinion polls suggest that a large majority of the French population supports…

Evening Standard

Scottish minister condemns Reform plan to ‘ban’ Gaelic at elections

Reform UK have been accused of attempting to criminalise Gaelic, Scots and British Sign Languages at elections.

The Economic Times

Zoho launches AI-powered Classes 2.0, offers platform free to government schools, colleges and universities in India

Platform automates lesson planning, supports 22 Indian languages and aims to make classrooms more interactive through AI-powered learning experiences

The Guardian - UK

Recalling the joys of learning languages

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and note that a willingness to ‘act the goat’ is the greatest predictor of success

The Conversation

Can speaking multiple languages really lower dementia risk? It’s not that simple

The risk of dementia rises as the brain ages. One reason is that connections between brain cells weaken over time. Diseases of the brain, such as Alzheimer’s and stroke, can speed this up, eventually leading to dementia, a loss of mental abilities and a loss of independence.

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