Tag: language
in fact, the Russian language very widely spoken in the country
One of the justifications for the Russian invasion would be the harassment of Russian speakers. Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of banning the Russian language, but in fact it remains widely…
Utregs tot Spakenburgs honored on Mother Language Day: ‘Important to preserve dialects’
Yesterday, 20:15 † 2 minutes reading time © ANP PROVINCE OF UTRECHT – ‘Zedde nouw goaw mad’, ‘Huiskees’, ‘dakhoas’ and ‘it’s kerremes in hell’. Fewer and fewer people will understand…
Language teaching: can accents be learned?
What is the accent? Can we learn them? Or on the contrary get rid of it? Advertising What didactics apply to learn a foreign language with the accent of the…
When language becomes an issue of national affirmation
Faced with the Russian threat, Ukraine has continued to increase the use of its national language. Because it is one of the paradoxes of this former Soviet republic: for more…
How does computerized language change our speech and our relationships?
Some expressions that were only used in mechanical and computer language have now entered everyday language. Advertising The computerized language at all costs, would it invade our language at all…
Ireland lacks Gaelic secondary schools, yet the country’s official language
Irish Gaelic became one of the official languages of the European Union in January. On the island, the Irish are 10% more each year to want to enroll their children…
The quirks of the French language with Jean-Loup Chiflet
What words are missing in the French language? What is a heterophone homograph? Do you know the paryponoian? Advertising With this unexpected dictionary, the writer and editor Jean-Loup Chiflet tells…
The evolution of languages illuminated by a script from Liberia
Do the writings tend to become simpler over time? In order to answer this question, researchers studied the evolution of the Vai script, originating in Liberia, which was invented by…
Beasts of science: your dog will never speak… like a Spanish cow!
“Bêtes de science” is like a collection of stories. Beautiful stories that tell the living in all its freshness. But also in all its complexity. A parenthesis to marvel at…
Diadié Dembélé, advocacy for equality and language sorority in Mali
Diadié Dembélé was born in Kodié, in western Mali. A graduate of the Master of literary creation from the University of Paris VIII, he works as an interpreter in an…