This week’s round up compiles language news from the last fortnight. 12/05/2017–26/05/2017 Headlines Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan’s Internal Administration Committee recently met for a preliminary review of a bill to officially recognise aboriginal languages as national languages and provide funding to…

This week’s round up compiles language news from the last fortnight. 28/04/2017–12/05/2017 Headlines What are the effects of an iPad on a child’s language acquisition? A study involving almost 900 children drew some interesting results that were presented at the recent…

This week’s round up compiles language news from the last fortnight. 14/04/2017–28/04/2017 Headlines The heads of courts of the multilingual nation of South Africa have reaffirmed a 2014 decision to make English the sole official language of the courts. Afrikaans…

07/04/2017–14/04/2017 Headlines Issue 26 of Parrot Time language magazine goes live! Check out their special features: a language profile on Nheengatu, language learning in the age of globalisation, language puzzles, and a film review of Un Sac de Billes! Test…

This week’s roundup collates stories and news from the last fortnight — we took a break last week and we’re back in the game now!  24/03/2017–07/04/2017 Headlines Children aged 5–15 can now learn Georgian outside of Georgia! After the successful pilot of…

17/03/2017–24/03/2017 Headlines Fish for You and Fish for Me was one of the winners of the South Slave Divisional Education Council’s (SSDEC) first Aboriginal Children’s Book Writing Contest in 2016. This year, the children’s book has been published in English, Cree, Slavey,…

10/03/2017–17/03/2017 Headlines Think English dialects are dying? Think again. The Guardian‘s Pamela Duncan and Josh Holder write about the myth of the decline of English dialects in the face of Standard English and how the Evolving English WordBank—which captures Englishes of the world—proves these dialects…

03/03/2017–10/03/2017 Headlines Fancy being outlawed for speaking English? This is the current situation facing people in two English-speaking regions in Cameroon. People in these regions have reportedly been unable to surf the web for two months as part of the…

24/02/2017–03/03/2017 Headlines Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico, USA have created a programme to provide students with a bilingual Spanish-English education from pre-kindergarten to university! The new programme—which is looking to hire more bilingual teachers—is expected to groom “students who will be much…

10/02/2017–17/02/2017 Headlines This week in wearable language tech: Semstone, an artificially-intelligent pendant that takes notes, records voice memos, upload data (unfortunately only iPhone-capatible), and transcribe them for you, has launched on Kickstarter. The wearable necklace pendant / collar clip / wrist band pendant…

03/02/2017–10/02/2017 Headlines The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley’s campus in Edinburg is set to become the first bilingual, bicultural, and biliterate campus in the United States. In an attempt to counter the ‘linguistic terrorism’ of denying the legitimacy of…

27/01/2017–03/02/2017 Headlines Thanks to nanotechnology and to the Rosetta Project, a ‘language library initiative’ developed by the Long Now Foundation, it is now possible to wear a small pendant containing text in over a thousand languages. Said text is of…