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Google Launches Endangered Language Project
The web behemoth, Google, knows that knowledge is power, and as the world’s largest purveyor of information, Google has risen to the opportunity to use its power for good in...
The Portuguese Leviathan
Kristal Bivona explores the natural and cultural diversity of Brazil
Wake up and smell the cafezinho. The world is finally recognizing that Brazil is half of Latin America and potentially the next world superpower. Students...
Travel Guiding
There has never been such a variety of ways to learn away from home, so Language Magazine offers some suggestions
United Kingdom
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is home to more than 2500 international students...
Striking Gold Down Under
Kristal Bivona shares her experience of the English immersion destination that lives up to the promise of its name: The Gold Coast
From the observation deck of the Skypoint Q1, Queensland’s tallest building, what’s...
The Secret of Mayan Success
Kristal Bivona catches a glimpse of Mayan language preservation in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Around the world, people are looking to the Mayan calendar for keys to the future of the planet and the mysterious changes...
Linguistic Diversity Linked to Biodiversity
Interdisciplinary researchers report that areas with high biological diversity, such as biodiversity hot spots and high biodiversity wilderness areas, are also home to about 70 percent of the world’s languages. The report, published in...
The World As We Speak Archive
Mandarin Noted as Second Most Spoken Language in Hong Kong
New census reports Mandarin overtakes English in Hong Kong
Shanghainese Fights to Survive in China
Dialects suffer as Chinese government demands Mandarin Chinese as official language
Ce...
International Mother Language Day
Message from
Ms Irina Bokova,
Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day
UNESCO, 21 February 2012
Nelson Mandela once said that “if you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes...
Preserving Languages with Technology
Facebook. YouTube. Texting. Just a few of the new technologies that are working to preserve indigenous languages online.
With these advances in technology, many groups are utilizing social media to engage younger members of the...
Inuit App for Children
To help his daughter retain the Inuit language, Vancouver-based Qajaaj Ellsworth has created an online game and application software. The language is indigenous to the North American Arctic as well as parts of subarctic...
