Tag: World
Spanish to Exceed 600M Speakers This Year
The Instituto Cervantes has launched its latest yearbook, Spanish in the World 2024, with the most up-to-date statistics on the language’s international presence and...
Paraguay Offers Korean in Schools
Starting this year, middle and high school students in Paraguay can learn Korean as a second foreign language subject, according to the Ministry of...
Love & Other Emotions Prove to not be Universal Across Languages
Humans have a breadth of emotions and are on a constant
search to express them through language, though sometimes we find that words in
one language...
Bringing Chinese to Preschoolers
Lauren Cortinas presents a
solution for the youngest learners of Mandarin
In October 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing entirely...
How would you describe your World Cup team? Have your say...
What three words would you use to sum up your country’s World Cup squad? Cambridge University Press (CUP) wants to know as it kicks...
US Leaves Education, Science, Culture Organization
Following in President Reagan’s footsteps, the Trump administration has announced the U.S. intention to withdraw from United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in...
Celebrate World Teachers’ Day
Teaching in Freedom, Empowering Teachers
Held annually on October 5 since 1994, World Teachers’ Day commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the 1966 UNESCO/ILO...
Could the language barrier actually fall within the next 10 years?
David Arbesú, University of South Florida
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to travel to a foreign country without having to worry about the nuisance of communicating...
Write to the US Senate to Protect World Language Education
The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee of the United States Senate has released a draft of the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
