Tag: language
Texas Protects Dual Language Education
Texas has been an advocate for dual language education since 1973 when former Governor Dolph Briscoe signed into law the Bilingual Education and Training Act,...
Spanish is the Happiest Language
A recent study published by the National Academy of Sciences revealed that human language has a universal bias towards positivity, and out of all...
Constructed Language and Game of Thrones’ Linguistic Lure
Game of Thrones premieres this weekend and this season more and more people will be able to understand the two subtitled fantasy languages of...
The Endangered Language Alliance
The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), an independent non-profit founded in 2010 by a team of linguists, recently worked with Grubin Productions to produce the...
Emojis and the Language of the Internet
People have been complaining about language being ruined by younger generations for thousands of years. Linguist John McWhorter noted that a Roman scholar in...
Bridging the North and South Korean Language Divide
Cheil Worldwide has launched a mobile app called “Univoca: South Korean-North Korean Translator," to help North Korean defectors in South Korea easily communicate in...
Lee Kuan Yew’s Language Legacy
The founding father of modern Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, passed away on Monday, March 23, 2015 at the age of 91. Leading Singapore...
Will You Accept the Indigenous Language Challenge?
In the same vein as the ice-bucket challenge that raised awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a video challenge to raise awareness and fostering...
Oklahoma Senator Reintroduces the English Language Unity Act
This week, Senator Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, reintroduced the English Language Unity Act. The legislation would mandate that the federal government use...
An Increase in Foreign Language Support For South Korea’s Multicultural Families
According to South Korea’s Gender Equality Ministry and municipal governments, more language support programs will be launched for multicultural families in 2015. There were...
