Tag: culture
Chinese Dialects Honored in Film
Last month’s Zurong Dialect Film Festival, one of China’s campaigns to preserve language diversity, received 582 entries featuring various dialects in just its second...
UCLA to Create Center for Greek Culture
A $5 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation will enable UCLA to create a center for the study of Hellenic culture, which will...
Murals Teach Education is Not a Crime
Changing the World, One Wall at a Time is a new documentary on Education...
The Art of Teaching
M. Elhess, E. Elturki, and J. Egbert offer strategies to support creativity in the language classroom
“Our students aren’t creative,” claimed one of the language teachers in the...
The Weeknd Donates $50K for Ancient Language
The University of Toronto is continuing its courses on Ge’ez thanks in part to a $50,000 donation from the Grammy Award–winning musician The Weeknd....
Language Magazine’s Short Guide to the Oscars Foreign Language Nominees
The annual awards ceremony is under way this month, and the race for best foreign-language film is under way. This year’s nominations have been...
Spanish Film Festival in Prague
From documentaries and horror films to coming-of-age dramas, La Película has something for everyone. The festival, organized by Cervantes Institute, the Spanish embassy in...
Words of 2014 Expose Vapid Culture
Merriam-Webster named culture in all of its definitions as its word of the year for 2014, saying that culture was a "big word at...
Words of 2014 Expose Vapid Culture
Merriam-Webster named culture in all of its definitions as its word of the year for 2014, saying that culture was a "big word at...
Carnaval of Culture
As Brazil flourishes, it becomes an even more attractive Portuguese immersion destination
Following more than three centuries under Portuguese rule, Brazil gained its independence in...
