Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where primary school pupils do not have to learn another language.
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A decolonising curriculum would consider ways in which writers negotiate linguistic, literary and cultural legacies of the colonial era.
A small community of Afrikaners has been living in Argentina since the early 1900s. Linguistic research has found they’re like a time capsule, reflecting pronunciation and syntax from an earlier era.
Why do some words sound pleasant to us, while others provoke disgust? Learning a new language can help us find out.
A scholar talks to Muslims in Puerto Rico and comes back with an understanding of their rich history and their struggles.
Spanish is not overtaking English in the US, despite political fearmongering. In fact, due to the ‘three-generation pattern,’ Spanish speaking in immigrant families tends to decline over time.
To understand the full scale of the world’s linguistic diversity, we should be thinking about languages and how speakers relate to them.
Whether it’s due to native language loss or unsupported high school curricula, the lack of bilingualism in the US is notable. Why can’t more Americans speak another language? How should that change?
The crisis in modern language teaching.
Everyone should learn another language.
Diners deployed a giant conga dance as a pretext to head outside to their cars and flee the scene.
The importance of speaking other languages in a post-Brexit world.
Turns out the way you are exposed to new languages could be the key.
Over the years, Puerto Ricans have in fact been granted three different types of U.S. citizenship, but questions about their rights and equal treatment as citizens still remain.
Research shows babies begin to learn language sounds before they’re even born. What about babies who hear two languages from birth? Can a baby brain specialize in two languages?
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