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Israel Introduces Mandatory Hebrew Tests

According to According to the Jerusalem Post, for the first time ever, Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch plans to conduct mandatory Hebrew testing for...

San Francisco Makes Vietnamese Official

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to make Vietnamese an official language, joining Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino as languages in which...

China Bans Tibetan on Douyin

Tibetans in Tibet have expressed concerns and dismay in response to the Chinese government’s decision to ban the Tibetan language and remove posts in...

New Immigrants May Not Require Russian

According to the independent Moscow Times, President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing foreign citizens and stateless individuals to apply for temporary residency...

$11 Million To Support Multilingualism in Schools

The U.S. Department of Education has allocated over $11 million in grants to support the recruitment and retention of bilingual and multilingual educators, and...

Film Aims to Revitalize Mixtec

Two Illinois State University students recently visited the town of San Sebastián del Monte, a small community in southern Mexico, to produce a documentary...

Arizona Opens Center for Linguistic Revitalization

A new center at the University of Arizona is one of only four designated by the US Department of Education to lead a collective...

Morocco Implements Amazigh for All

Moroccan minister of education and sports Chakib Benmoussa has provided updates on his government’s program to introduce Amazigh language curriculum in all of the...

AI Language models could help diagnose Schizophrenia

Scientists in England have developed a new, AI-based language tool that could help diagnose and assess psychiatric conditions including Schizophrenia. The research team from University...

English Boom in North Korea

In contrast to its open hostility toward the US, North Korea has been doubling down on English education in its public schools under the...

Research: Human brain processes native language in specific way, study finds

A new study by researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Carleton University has found the brain’s language network responds...

UN Celebrates Kiswahili

Last month, the United Nations celebrated the third annual World Kiswahili Day with events worldwide and a speech by UNESCO director-general Audrey Azoulay, who...

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