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Michigan Passes Official English Bill
Without any prior discussion, the Michigan House of Representatives has passed a bill, HB 4053, making English as the state’s official language of government....
Learn English with Ted Talks
Video-Based Learning App Supports English Language Learning Courses
National Geographic Learning (NGL), a Cengage company, has announced the release of Learn English with TED Talks,...
Boost to Arabic Learning in UK
Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, French, Arabic, and German are the languages the UK will need...
Al Jazeera Launches Chinese Site
Al Jazeera has launched a Mandarin-language news website targeting a Chinese population of 1.4...
Making Hindi Official at the UN
The Indian government is prepared to spend up to four billion rupees ($63 million) to make Hindi one of the official languages of the...
13 Million Brits Plan to Learn Spanish in 2018
According to a poll recently released by the British Council, one out of every five UK adults (about 13 million people) said they plan...
La Doppia Vita
Simona Montanari proves how an Italian-English dual-language program in Southern California is improving English literacy
In the public classrooms of Glendale Unified School District, a...
Protection for Turkey’s ‘Bird Language’
The whistled “bird language” used by small groups of Black Sea villagers in remote northern Turkey has joined a UNESCO list of endangered languages...
Diglossia Releases Mubakkir Arabic Early Reading Assessment
Diglossia has announced the release of Mubakkir, an Arabic early-reading assessment designed for native and nonnative learners at beginning and intermediate proficiency levels. Experts...
The Future of Spanish and Hispanic Media in the U.S.
Does one have to speak Spanish to be considered Hispanic or Latino in the U.S.? What is the role of Hispanic media in the...
Grants to Fully Fund Chinese and Arabic Teachers @ K-12 Schools
U.S. K-12 schools can host a fully-funded teacher from Egypt, Morocco, or China with the help of Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) grants. TCLP...
Confucius Launches Chinese Online Test and Programs
The Confucius Institute and XuetangX have launched a platform for students around the world who want to learn Chinese and pass the HSK proficiency...
