Tag: languages
Europe Celebrates Linguistic Diversity with European Day of Languages
The European Day of Languages (EDL) is an annual celebration day to encourage language learning across Europe. At the initiative of the Council of...
World Languages from National Geographic Learning
¡Exploremos! (1-4, 1A and 1B) offers an innovative approach to language teaching that takes advantage of content the students already know about the world...
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...
Mexico and Canada Collaborate Linguistically
Languages Canada and the Ministry of Education of the Mexican State of Guanajuato...
Virtual Learning a Reality
ATi Studios has released a virtual reality app for language education to combine the artificial-intelligence technology behind chatbots with speech recognition in virtual reality....
Poly Aims to Share ALL the World’s Languages
Poly began after a successful Kickstarter campaign last year as an open source, modern software built to share and learn languages in text and...
America’s 350 Languages
More than 1 in 5 United States residents speak a foreign language at home and a recent chart released by the U.S. Census Bureau...
Information Inequality and the Languages of the Internet
The Guardian recently published an interactive guide by Holly Young, editor of the Case for Language Learning series on education, that details how language...
Indigenous Languages and Digital Activism
Using technology to research and preserve indigenous languages and cultures is a growing trend in various countries. The New South Wales government announced funding for the...
Tonal Languages Use Both Sides of the Brain
Language learning and processing is usually dominated by the left side of the brain, which is adept at tasks that involve logic and analytical...
