― Advertisement ―
Mental Health Services in Spanish Decline
According to a study published last month in the journal Psychiatric Services (https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.202100614), between 2014 and 2019, the proportion of US centers offering mental...
Belarus Restricts Lithuanian Education
According to Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus will no longer allow students in its two Lithuanian-language schools to study in their native language....
Ryanair Imposes Afrikaans Test on South African Passengers
Ryanair, one of Europe’s largest budget airlines is demanding that travelers who hold a South African passport must first pass an ‘Afrikaans’ language test...
Is It Time for Us All to Learn English?
An awakening is happening in the business world in terms of language training. Companies are beginning to invest in training which helps the monolingual...
Puerto Rican Writer Braschi Wins Spanish Award
The North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) has bestowed its 2022 Enrique Anderson Imbert...
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...
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...
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...
Is Scottish Gaelic on the Rise?
March 21 marked the first World Gaelic Week, with more than 100 events scheduled to celebrate the language and its legacy. Moreover, people’s fascination...
Spanish Teachers for Libya
The Spanish oil company Repsol is sponsoring the design, teaching, and evaluation of an...
CODA Brings ASL to Big Screen, Public’s Attention
The film tells the story of a mostly deaf family, focusing mainly on the sole hearing member of the family and her difficulties fitting...
South Africa Classifies Afrikaans as ‘Foreign’
South Africa’s government has touched off a storm after it moved to classify native Afrikaans as a “foreign language.” For clarity’s sake, here is...