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Readers reply: what languages do native speakers of Mandarin and Arabic find the hardest to learn?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Guardian - UK

Parlez-vous Valyrian? Meet the people creating languages for Game of Thrones, Avatar and more

Half a million Duolingo users are currently learning High Valyrian. But how do you make a language out of nothing? The linguists behind top fantasy TV shows and films explain

The Guardian - UK

Africa’s linguistic diversity goes largely unnoticed in research on multilingualism

Language is a uniquely human skill. That’s why studying how people learn and use language is crucial to understanding what it means to be human. Given that most people in the world – an estimated 60% – are multilingual, meaning that they know and use more than one language, a…

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‘Our government sees it as cute but unimportant’: the musicians keeping France’s Occitan language alive

Post-revolutionary France tried to stamp it out, but working class communities kept speaking it. Now Occitan powers a vivacious and political European music scene

The Guardian - UK

Vaiko condemns Union Health Minister’s speech favouring Hindi

The Hindu

I asked ChatGPT the same question in Russian and Ukrainian – and the results worried me

ChatGPT is leaving non-English speakers behind – and that could impact us all.

TechRadar

What languages do native speakers of Mandarin and Arabic find the hardest to learn?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

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Tom’s Guide Hero Awards 2023: The best innovations, brands and products of the year

We recognize the best innovations, products and companies in our annual Tom's Guide Hero Awards. For this year’s campaign, we spoke with the winners and analysts about what makes all of these devices, brands and services need-movers.

Tom’s Guide

Two in three state secondary schools in England teach just one foreign language

Survey finds German is most affected by shift towards single-language offer in key stage 3

The Guardian - UK

Just one in 10 state schools say all pupils take a language at GCSE – report

The number of state schools offering German is significantly lower than private schools, the British Council’s Languages Trends survey suggests.

The Independent UK

The rising ocean will extinguish more than land. It will kill entire languages

As communities are displaced their native tongues wither, but it’s not too late to intervene, says linguist Anastasia Riehl

The Guardian - UK

I found my sleep language and here's how you can find yours

The 5 sleep languages explained by a clinical sleep psychologist

Editorial: A shortage of bilingual teachers threatens goal for a multilingual California

Five years ago, the California Department of Education set a goal that half of K-12 students would be literate in at least two languages by 2030, and three-fourths by 2040, to be achieved by recruiting and training more teachers to teach bilingual classes, enrolling more students in dual immersion classes…

Los Angeles Times

A new study of Warlpiri language shows how 'baby talk' helps little kids learn to speak

Parents and other caregivers typically modify their speech when they talk to babies and young children.

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Worried about AI? You might have AI-nxiety – here's how to cope

Even tech experts have been astonished by the recent, rapid growth of AI technology, able to hold human-like conversations in multiple languages, create music and pass medical exams. While the potential benefits of AI in fields such as healthcare are indeed inspiring, the pace of change is rapid, and there…

Al Jazeera

Eid al-Adha greeting in different languages

Eid al-Adha is celebrated on the third day of Hajj. Here is how to wish someone Eid Mubarak in various languages.

PC Gamer

AI is being used to translate 5,000 year-old cuneiform tablets

Bringing dead languages back to life.

The Hindu

The united States of India

While the Indian state has triumphed over the nationalities of the south, the ghosts of the latter continue to haunt the champions of the former, at least during elections

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YouTube is getting a powerful AI dubbing tool — here’s how it works

YouTube is integrating Aloud's AI-powered dubbing tool to automatically translate your videos for international audiences.

Inverse

The Smartest Sci-Fi Movie on Amazon Promotes an Outdated Scientific Theory

"Arrival" provides one of the smartest first contact narratives — but its underlying linguistic principle isn't widely accepted any more.

TechRadar

YouTube video translation is getting an AI-powered dubbing tool upgrade

YouTube will incorporate Google's Aloud tech to create a tool that can generate create multi-lingual video dubs

Evening Standard

Students choose AI to learn languages

Developers have capitalised on the sudden wave of interest with the introduction of several AI apps

The Hindu

Data | Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil leads with 1.5 lakh Wikipedia articles

Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil dominates with over 1.5 lakh articles

The Conversation

How Mexican indigenous languages are surviving against the odds – new research

Being able to speak the dominant language wherever you are in the world has long been shown to be economically beneficial. This is particularly the case when you’re looking for work.

The Hindu

Technologies can erase language barriers, say experts

Linguistic Society of India (LSI) president Prof. G. Umamaheshwara Rao on Monday, June 19, said that language barriers are getting erased and there should not be a classification of languages as ancient or recent, classical or standard, and simple or complex. “The notion of some languages being standard and a few…

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