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Unlocking the Vietnamese Language: A Student’s Perspective in Saigon

Vietnam—the land of delicious food, viral-worthy motorcycle traffic, immense history, and… language classes? Learning Vietnamese is definitely not on the radar for many language...

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China Exerting Influence in Spanish

A recent study by Chile’s Center for Analysis for Democracy finds Chinese broadcasters have been increasing their footprint in Spanish-speaking countries in the past...

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Spanish Teachers for Libya

The Spanish oil company Repsol is sponsoring the design, teaching, and evaluation of an...

CODA Brings ASL to Big Screen, Public’s Attention

The film tells the story of a mostly deaf family, focusing mainly on the sole hearing member of the family and her difficulties fitting...

South Africa Classifies Afrikaans as ‘Foreign’

South Africa’s government has touched off a storm after it moved to classify native Afrikaans as a “foreign language.” For clarity’s sake, here is...

Iranians Protest Mother Tongue Marginalization

In advance of Mother Language Day, about a thousand Iranians who grew up speaking a minority language took to Twitter to express their sense...

Académie Française Rails Against ‘Californisms’

France’s official authority on the vocabulary and grammar of its language has targeted a new threat: “les Californisms.”That’s the name the Académie Française (or...

Encouraging Spanish/Portuguese Collaboration

During last month’s Second International Conference on Portuguese and Spanish Languages ​​(CILPE) in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, leading Ibero-American language experts came together to...

Connecting the Community

I’m the principal at Brookwood Elementary, where we serve more than 1,200 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Approximately 10% of our students are...

Could French Prevail in Europe?

France’s European affairs minister Clément Beaune is taking advantage of France’s presidency of the European Union’s (EU’s) Council for the first time since Brexit...

UAE Launches Arabic Declaration

Last month, at the Expo 2020 Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, VP and deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...

Irish Gains Full EU Status

The derogation of the status of the Irish language in European Union (EU) institutions ended on 31 December 2021 and its status is now...

UK Government Backs British Sign Language Bill

The British government is backing a bill to finally make British Sign Language (BSL) a recognized language in the UK and help deaf people...

Netflix Banks on Korean

Netflix has announced that it will release a record amount of Korean-language programming, including five original films, in 2022, capitalizing on last year’s global...

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