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...
Latvia Drops Russian from Schools
Latvia’s Cabinet of Ministers has unanimously and without debate approved new education rules that plan for the gradual rejection of studying Russian as a...
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French Program for Refugees Shows Success
A French parliamentary report presented to the National Assembly last month found that significant progress has been made since 2018 in helping refugees and...
Inner Mongolians Protest Chinese Language Classes
A new directive in the Inner Mongolia region is causing parents to protest. The directive will require three subjects — language and literature, politics,...
Miami Herald’s Spanish-Language Newspaper Causes Controversy Over Anti-Semitic Insert, Editor Resigns
This week, editors at The Miami Herald and its Spanish-language cohort, El Nuevo Herald, apologized to readers over a Spanish-language insert that said American...
Abu Dhabi Announces Five-Year Plan to Promote Arabic
Sheikh Khalid bin Mohamed, chair of the Abu Dhabi Executive Office, has approved the Arabic Language Center’s strategy for 2020 to 2025, which will...
Preserving Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is something every teacher strives to maintain in the classroom. We want our students to be honest in their work because this...
Young Bilingual Brains; German Gender Disagreement; German Dialects
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Young Bilingual Brains May Age Better Bilingual children and adolescents may grow up with more grey matter, according to a new studyGerman Gender...
TED Talks Arabic
TED and the Qatar Foundation have launched TEDinArabic—a joint two-year initiative that will provide a global platform for thinkers, researchers, artists, and change makers...
DC Confucius Institute Designated as ‘Diplomatic Mission’
The U.S. State Department has designated the Confucius Institute U.S. (CIUS) Center, in Washington, DC, as a diplomatic mission, which will require it to...
German Gender Disagreement
The Association for German Language (GfdS) is calling for end to the practice of using an asterisk to make gender-specific nouns seem gender-neutral in...
Canada’s Centre for Education & Training To Provide Free English and French Language Assessments
The Centre for Education & Training (TCET) has announced a program to provide free English and French language assessments and referrals to training. TCET’s...
New Institute to Promote Mexican Spanish and Culture
In a videoconference on Monday, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced a new institution to protect and promote the Spanish language in the U.S....
Confucius Institutes Refocus on Chinese Language
China’s Confucius Institutes, which have become the backbone of the country’s worldwide soft power strategy, are being rebranded in the face of widespread criticism....
