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Emojis and the Language of the Internet
People have been complaining about language being ruined by younger generations for thousands of years. Linguist John McWhorter noted that a Roman scholar in...
French to Stop Fight Against Foreign Words
Fleur Pellerin, France’s minister of culture, reversed four centuries of French linguistic policy by declaring that France’s resistance to the incursion of English words...
Swedish Dictionary Officially Includes Gender-Neutral Pronoun
The Swedish Academy's SAOL dictionary is being republished on April 15, 2015 with thousands of new words. Among them is the gender-neutral pronoun “hen”,...
Bridging the North and South Korean Language Divide
Cheil Worldwide has launched a mobile app called “Univoca: South Korean-North Korean Translator," to help North Korean defectors in South Korea easily communicate in...
Lee Kuan Yew’s Language Legacy
The founding father of modern Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, passed away on Monday, March 23, 2015 at the age of 91. Leading Singapore...
Preserving Cherokee in the U.S.
The near demise of the Cherokee language came largely thanks to the U.S. government. Most Cherokee were forced to make a brutal march from...
Families of Missing Student-Teachers Tour the U.S.
En route to a demonstration that sought to protest policies that gave urban student-teachers an advantage over rural student-teachers on the job market, 43...
Will You Accept the Indigenous Language Challenge?
In the same vein as the ice-bucket challenge that raised awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a video challenge to raise awareness and fostering...
Royal Academy Director Predicts a Grand Future for Spanish in the U.S.
Dario Villanueva, the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, said in an interview with Efe in San Juan that, "Spanish in the U.S. is...
The Spread of Survival Spanish for Police Officers and Firefighters
From online Spanish courses in Illinois to mandatory classroom sessions in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and California, police officers and firefighters in largely Spanish speaking...
Marvel Celebrates Free Comic Book Day in Spanish
¡Feliz día del cómic gratis!
May 2nd is national Free Comic Book Day, and Marvel is offering for the first time a free, multi-story, Spanish...
Are Arabic Schools in France Really Hotbeds for Radicalism?
Secret report accuses French heritage-language programs of ghettoizing and radicalizing French-born youth
French conservatives are in an uproar over a 2013 report that recently surfaced...
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