This article gives some practical ideas for parents to encourage their children to speak their mother tongue consistently, as opposed to an official language used in the wider world outside. sowetanlive.co.za/s-mag/2020-01-…

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, this might be a good time to look at a couple of dozen terms relating to emotional concepts like love, shame, anger, and how they vary in meaning from one culture to another. sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/w…

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Have you heard about psycholinguistics? It is the field that links psychology and linguistics – and one of its latest discoveries suggests that “the languages we speak influence our eye movements”. blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/t…

Bilingual education is making big strides, and more US schools have opted to teach in English and Spanish. “If we can make children feel more accepted and validate their prior knowledge, we are making them ready to learn over the course of a lifetime”. cincinnati.com/in-depth/news/…

This article talks about Tulu, a non official language in India and the efforts now being made to include it in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, with the aim of promoting social inclusion and national solidarity. thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…

For some countries, learning foreign languages should be a priority. “With Brexit just around the corner, it's critical we start to value languages and the enormous advantages multilingualism can bring”, says the President of the British Academy. studyinternational.com/news/foreign-l…

Do you think the languages we learn to count in could impact our numerical ability? This article from the BBC explores the idea that language may shape our ability in maths. bbc.com/future/article…

Wanting to switch language on your Android device? In the past, you had to add a new software keyboard to your phone, but now you can get different languages following these simple steps: theverge.com/2020/1/3/21046…

Here is another story of language revitalization, this time from Alaska. The efforts to ensure the survival of six native languages are described in a recent report by the Alaska Native Languages Preservation Advisory Council. ktuu.com/content/news/N…

Here is another story of language revitalization, this time from Alaska. The efforts to ensure the survival of six native languages are described in a recent report by the Alaska Native Languages Preservation Advisory Council. ktuu.com/content/news/N…

Even though more than 90% of Dutch people can talk with great confidence in English, some expats have never tried to learn Dutch. This article discusses a few of the linguistic traps that expats speaking English in the Netherlands have to watch out for. iamexpat.nl/education/educ…

Some students in the USA are engaged in making up new languages, known as “conlangs”. One language is being created for underwater creatures who speak in shades of colour, while another one combines speech with whistling. news.mit.edu/2019/construct…

Have you ever attended a stand-up comedy show? Here is the true story of some stand-up comics who have decided to leave the comfort of their native country behind, and take up the challenge of translating their act into English. vulture.com/2020/01/stand-…

Through her tweeter account, the Queen of Malaysia, who has Chinese lineage, raises awareness of the value of reading and writing in the country’s native langauges. malaysiakini.com/news/505871

If you want some reasons to learn another language, try these: speaking another language creaetsd more business and work opportunities, gives you the chance of studying abroad, provides you with skills, and can support your academic achievement. theconversation.com/7-reasons-to-l…

Scientists have recently travelled to a distant community in Western Australia to map the local "lingua franca", called Kukatja, which is “spoken more fluently than English by residents of all ages and across at least seven tribal groups”. abc.net.au/news/2019-12-2…

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