US Spanish Fact-Checking Site Launches
Poynter’s PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize–winning fact-checking newsroom, has launched a new Spanish-language experience, PolitiFact en Español (www.politifact.com/espanol), to help more than 40 million Spanish...
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UN Celebrates Chic Chinese
On April 20, the United Nations (UN) Chinese Language Day and the second CMG Overseas Chinese Language Video Festival were celebrated with the theme...
Take Action for World Language Advancement and Readiness Grant Program
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is leading a Dear Colleague letter that urges the Senate Appropriations Committee to support funding the World Language Advancement and...
Uganda Considers Making Students Study Kiswahili and French
Politicians in Uganda are currently debating whether or not to make Kiswahili and French compulsory subjects in the country’s school system. As two of...
First Full-Time ASL Interpreters Join White House Staff
For the first time in American history, two full-time American Sign Language interpreters have joined the White House staff.
Elsie Stecker and Lindsey Snyder...
Australia Helps Community Language Schools
The Australian Labor Party has made early childhood language education a key part of its platform this election cycle, proposing an investment of $15...
The Power of Cultural and Linguistic Connections
(May 2022) Daphne Germain
shares a mother’s perspective on the
benefits of bilingual, bicultural education
Cervantes Extends Spanish in India
The Cervantes Institute is opening its first satellite center in India in Bangalore, a city of more than eight million people which is considered...
Researchers Tackle Universal Grammar
In their new book The Language Game, cognitive scientists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater set out to identify the origins of human language—and...
Plan to Promote French across Canada
The government of Québec is proposing the celebration of an annual Francophonie Day as part of a three-year plan to reinforce French across the...
Misclassification of Ukrainian Sparks Outcry
Despite years of coverage on the language conflict in Ukraine in Language Magazine and many other media outlets, and a heartfelt, poetic explanation of the subjugation of Ukrainian, there...
Cuba Introduces Secondary Chinese
Over 100 seventh graders from Fructuoso Rodríguez school in the central Havana district of Plaza de la Revolución will start Chinese classes during the...
Potential Genetic Factor in Specific Language Impairment
A team of researchers at the University of Kansas has identified a possible genetic factor underlying specific language impairment (SLI), a communication disorder whose...
