Georgia placed a thousand native English speakers in its schools to displace Russian as the second language. A decade on, here is what survived and what did not.
Posts with tag.: language policy
Spain's Senate admitted Catalan, Basque and Galician with simultaneous interpretation. Congress refused. The row was never about headphones or the cost of booths.
The Welsh Language Measure gave Welsh official status and put public bodies under a duty to provide services in it, creating steady demand and an unexpected quality problem.
Executive departments spent almost £200,000 translating documents into Irish and Ulster Scots. The row that followed was never really about the money.
A bill granting Russian and other tongues regional status has split Ukraine’s parliament. The fight is not about grammar. It is about which way the country faces.
Villagers in Rockfield want the Welsh name Llanoronwy scrapped from their signs, arguing the council invented a translation for a place name that never needed one.
Around 100 protesters gathered near Ukraine's parliament against a language law expanding Russian, arguing bilingualism in law means Ukrainian retreat in practice.
Wales, Catalonia, Ireland and South Africa all decide which language children are taught in, and each answer reveals what the state thinks schools are for.
Senate Bill 2639 would force foreign-language signs in the Philippines to carry a Filipino or English translation. Mandating a translation is not the same as mandating a good one.