October 8, 2018
Students work on the development of Duolingo's Navajo language course at San Juan High School on October 1, 2018 in Blanding, Utah. Educators and students helped create lessons that the startup launched on Oct. 8.
Like his ancestors, 65-year-old Clayton Long spent his c...
April 2, 2018
President Raimonds Vējonis on April 2 announced he had signed laws approved by Saeima that will see a gradual swicth to Latvian-language teaching in schools that now use other languages for the bulk of their teaching.
The amendments to the Education Law and amendments t...
March 31, 2018
To the eternal annoyance of many American travelers, France is a country that cares enormously about its language. The national pride is evident — and controversial — in the very existence of the Academie Française. More generally, though, despite the stream of incomin...
December 1, 2017
An estimated 7,099 languages are spoken throughout the world today. Almost a third of them are endangered -- spoken by dwindling numbers -- while just 23 languages represent more than half of the global population.
For years, researchers have been interested in the simi...
Today in Nashville, more than 7,000 language educators are gathering for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo.
The Convention lasts three days and is the pre-eminent national event for world languag...
January 10, 2017
People with synesthesia experience the sensory world in a unique way — for example, they "taste" words or "hear" colors. Now, new research suggests that people who learn a second language but aren't exposed to that second language very early in life are more likely to...
November 13, 2016