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US Sees Sharp Rise in Telugu Speakers

The Telugu-speaking population in the US has surged fourfold in the last eight years, growing from 320,000 in 2016 to 1.23 million in 2024....

Hindi Promotion at UN

The Indian government has contributed over a million dollars to the Hindi @ UN project to expand the use of Hindi at the United...

Call to Promote Portuguese Use in Macao

Portuguese should not simply be a tool for official communication in Macao but needs to be promoted as a language in daily life, according...

Russia Accused of Suppressing Ukrainian

Human Rights Watch (HRW), the widely respected international monitoring organization, is claiming that the Russian occupying authorities in Eastern Ukraine have violated their human...

El País Launches US Spanish Edition

Spain’s flagship daily newspaper El País has launched a digital edition focused on reaching the 42 million Spanish speakers in the US—Latin American and...

Spanish-Language Misinformation Thriving

A new poll (https://api.ddia.org/uploads/DDIA_Poll_Report_June_25_2024_98425ffa6d.pdf) from the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) of 3,000 Latinos across the US found that many were familiar...

NYC Creates New Division for English Learners and Students with Disabilities

New York City’s Education Department is creating a new division to support students with disabilities and children learning English as a second language, announced...

House Aims to Cut Title III EL Funding

The Republican-led House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education has advanced a funding bill that would eliminate funding for Title...

House Committee Supports Funding for World Languages

Last month, the House Appropriations Committee approved its version of fiscal year 2025 Department of Defense (DoD) appropriations legislation, including $15 million for the...

Ontario Lawmaker Addresses Legislature in Anishininiimowin

A First Nations lawmaker in Ontario, Canada, has addressed the province’s legislature in Anishininiimowin, in a move that repudiates a centuries-long colonial “war” on...

China: Spanish for a New Approach to Globalization

Luis García Montero, director of the Instituto Cervantes, recently visited China to sign several academic agreements with the superpower’s educational organizations of the Asian...

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