Quebec is replacing the struck-down Bill 104 with a points-based test that asks parents to prove their child's English schooling would be an authentic education.
Posts with tag.: Language
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.
Film-maker Heather Quinlan is recording New York's disappearing accents in If These Knishes Could Talk, a documentary built on her grandfathers' voices.
Recyclopath, vegangelical, congreenient: ten green coinages from Urban Dictionary, what they reveal about environmentalism, and why translators dread them.
Three-quarters of UK students skipped French GCSE this year and German entries fell 4.5%. The 2004 decision to make languages optional is still doing damage.
Helsinki startup XIHA offered content in 56 languages and, unlike LinkedIn, paid its translators. The premise outlived the platform.
Haryana Agricultural University will require overseas students to study Hindi. In India, a language mandate is never just an educational decision.
Stephen Pax Leonard will live a year with the Inughuit to record Inuktun, an undocumented language with about 1,000 speakers and a thinning sheet of ice.
Vietnam’s growth is reshaping demand for Vietnamese translation services, and the agencies still using diaspora reviewers are quietly losing the market.
Leeds researcher Serge Sharoff has £700,000 from the European Commission to build term banks that could reshape machine translation and language teaching alike.
Common Sense Advisory surveyed 651 providers in 75 countries: demand is up over 13% a year, translation rates are down, and memory discounts hit 48%.
David Crystal says the web did not accelerate language change so much as expose it, and the texting panic collapses once you count the words.
India has chased UN status for Hindi since 2003, but the cost, the two-thirds majority and its own southern states all stand in the way.
Interpreters-on-Call sells vendor-neutral telephony by the minute, removing the one barrier that kept small agencies out of over the phone interpretation.
Vienna linguist Nikolaus Ritt argues sounds and words are selfish replicators that use speakers to copy themselves, turning language change into Darwinian evolution.
Humpty Dumpty in English, Indonesian, Russian and Turkish shows what each grammar forces speakers to decide, and what the new research on linguistic relativity found.