Child at annual Mongolian Festival (Naadam) in Sydney (Image credit: What's On) Maintaining their heritage language is paramount for migrants internationally as language is not just a communication tool. It…
On this year’s International Mother Language Day, the UN is encouraging us to reflect on the role of technology in multilingual learning. Here, we are looking at the role of…
A herder guards the Mongolian script (Image credit: Ayin) As the danger of life-threatening Covid-19 has subsided, Mongols in Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China, have faced a new…
Jin Gang performing a fiddle story about the heroism of health workers Nothing seems further from the fight against COVID-19 than traditional folklore. However, an ancient Mongolian art form, the…
The website of Hohhot Baita International Airport provides information in Chinese and English but not in Mongolian Update, Sept 16, 2020: A Mongolian translation of this blog post is now…
Image of dictionary burning circulating on social media On New Year’s Eve, when many people around the world were excited about firework shows, a group of Mongols in remote Inner…
Rashid al-Din Monument in Soltaniyeh, Iran (Source: Wikipedia) Recently, I signed a contract for a revised second edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction to be published…