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A new information campaign to help culturally diverse communities in Sydney's north-west deal with a flood crisis will help keep them safe, the NSW SES Commissioner says.

During lockdown, I took short courses in Northern Sámi, Scots, Korean and Irish, and sat exams in Cornish

English is important as a medium of instruction, but a regional language helps in practising medicine

Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp in his mother tongue Luganda.

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

A VARIANT of Scots has been put at the “global forefront” of the push to preserve endangered languages.

Country’s languages, dharma, culture, arts and history should be passed on to the future generations, says Union Home Minister

If Southeast Asia really needs to have official languages, choosing all the national languages of the ASEAN countries would be a prudent move.

From the fourth year of schooling, the majority of South African schools teach all subjects in English only. The devastating learning consequences of this for children who speak African languages at home have been compellingly captured in the documentary film Sink or Swim. These consequences include lack of conceptual understanding…

The developers of a new artificial intelligence system inspired by an endangered Aboriginal language say it has unique characteristics that make it easy to translate into commands.

There are both pluses and minuses in making mother tongue the medium for higher studies