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NEW HAVEN — More than 350 Yale students are using their fluency in dozens of languages ​​to help residents who don't speak English navigate courts, family services and even prisons.Sophie Huttner, who helped found the Yale Interpreting…

New project from Tamil Nadu government identifies potential of multilingualism to become an educational resource New project from Tamil Nadu government identifies potential of multilingualism to become an educational resource…

Of the more than 250 original languages ​​and over 750 dialects spoken by First Nations people before 1788, only 12 are learned by children today. However, widely spoken contact languages ​​– creoles and dialects – have emerged. An…

The Chairman of La Campagne Tropicana Lagoon, Beach and Forest Resort, Otunba Wanle Akinboboye, who is also a consultant to the Ondo State Government on tourism, said: "Destination Ondo is a project focused…

Ros Wilson Submitted by Hannah WhyteA local literary guru is helping elementary school students develop their writing and speaking skills through a new development program.Talk: Write offers students aged 4 to 12!--kg-card-end:>!--kg-card-begin:>…

Everyone knows via the center that the Chinese language it is the language spoken to the maximum on this planet, since the inhabitants of China are fixed at 1.5 billion people. In addition, this Chinese language has other languages…

By John McWhorter, Ph.D., Columbia University We know that there are about 6,000 languages ​​and that they keep changing, and that this change results in the production of dialects. We also know…

In her first book How You Say It, UChicago psychologist Katherine D. Kinzler explores how we interpret language to divide the world into social groups. In a new book, Professor Katherine D. Kinzler argues that the way you speak reflects…

Shana Poplack, Emeritus University Professor | Canada Research Chair in Linguistics | Founding Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory, University of Ottawa/L'Université d'Ottawa African-American vernacular English is an…

After students at a California high school were recently asked to 'translate' Black English sentences into Standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: 'The last thing they need - our children - is to be forced…

To celebrate words, sometimes you have to look to their roots. Victoria writer Patrick Friesen has done just that with his new book of poetry, Songen. In Middle English - the English language as it was spoken between the early Middle…

My grammar checker and I are on break. Due to irreconcilable differences, we are no longer on good terms. It all started when he started putting commas before each "who". Despite all the angry underlining, "it's a habit that seems…

It is a particular observation that the more people speak a language, the simpler its grammar tends to be. English and Mandarin, for example, have particularly simple structures. On the other hand, the languages ​​spoken in a single…