The Latest Breaking News from Languages

With primary elections well underway across the country, voting rights and immigrant advocates are raising the alarm about a lack of language assistance for voters who aren’t fluent in English.

‘It is keen on promoting all regional languages as can be seen in the thrust it has given to mother tongues in the National Education Policy’

In the title we quote Michelle Martin (with her permission), who is a proud Kija woman and passionate educator. She sees a system that does not adequately recognise Aboriginal students’ worldviews or knowledge. Instead, the education system measures Aboriginal students according to white language and cultural systems.

About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the lingua franca of the Inca Empire was nearly impossible before Google introduced it into its digital translation service Wednesday

Heritage language schools are grassroots organizations that maintain the languages and cultures of immigrant communities, and offer vital community services, employment opportunities and networking to prevent social isolation. They advocate for multilingualism and cross-cultural understanding. These schools range from small organizations, run by volunteers, to large, accredited schools.

Did you think of trying to learn an African language online during the pandemic, only to be disappointed when you found popular apps like Duolingo didn’t offer Shona or Ndebele or Venda?

Children will be able to learn other languages apart from their mother tongue through the implementation of the National Education Policy, said Governor of Telangana and Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Tamilisai Soundararajan here on Saturday.

John Claughton left Oxford in 1979 with a double first in Classics and four cricket Blues. He was just what the City was looking for, and – after a brief dalliance as an “inadequate” professional cricketer at Warwickshire – walked straight into a job at Rothschild’s. Only problem was, he…

One of the reasons I moved to Québec in 2015 was because of the mélange of languages in which many Quebecers — especially in Montréal — live and work. Some are able to change languages from sentence to sentence; others will switch in the middle of sentences or speak in…

Students are hailed champions in competition to promote modern languages

Mr. Pradhan also insisted the government considers all Indian languages, including Hindi, as “National Languages” and gives them equal importance