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Students should be told the whole story: understanding languages and cultures is a huge advantage in the workplace, says writer and film director Xaymaca Awoyungbo

Tim Walz speaks Mandarin. But don’t expect to hear Kamala Harris’ running mate deploying his Chinese language skills on the US election campaign trail.

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy envisions a world in which artificial intelligence bots can be made into subject matter experts that are “deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world’s languages.” Through this vision, the bots would be available to “personally tutor all 8 billion…

Brokeree Solutions, an international technology provider for multi-asset brokers, released a new website version. Now the information is available for visitors in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese. This enrichment will make the solution choosing process more convenient for a diverse range of brokers and prop trading companies from the regions,…

One of the UK’s most valuable AI startups has picked central London for the site of its new European headquarters, the Standard can reveal. ElevenLabs, which develops AI-powered audio in different languages, has signed a lease for office space in Soho’s Wardour Street, at the heart of the capital’s creative…

I’m married to a German, bringing up my family in the Netherlands and speak five languages – yet I still don’t ‘belong’, says writer and journalist Olga Mecking

From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy – also known as “phonics” or the “science of reading” – to teach children how to read. But the very nature of this approach to reading could cause bilingual children to lose their…

Languages from across Australia will be collected in an archive to protect the hundreds of Indigenous tongues while offering insight into heritage and culture.

How Indigenous language revitalization holds the key to the biodiversity crisis

In times when users can already hold full-fledged conversations with an AI, and when deep fakes are virtually indistinguishable from authentic content, the next step for translating human interactions seems logical: real-time speech translation in your own natural voice.

When Nadia Nadarajah takes the stage at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre from tonight as Cleopatra, she will fulfil a longheld dream: to show others how far you can go as ‘a deaf brown woman who uses sign language and doesn’t speak’