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Language Rights Defenders Award

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940-2023) The Global Coalition for Language Rights is pleased to announce the first annual Language Rights Defenders Award. This award aims to recognize and honor individuals who demonstrate…
Gerald Roche
March 28, 2024

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Intercultural communication

تمسخر لهجه ها

Amoo ('Uncle') Poorang Persian version of my recent post about "Ridiculing accents" Translated by Behnam Keimasi (بهنام کیماسی) آیا مایه گذاشتن از اقلیت‌های زبانی برای سرگرم کردن کودکان کار درستی…
Linguistic landscapes

Japanese in Bangkok

Billboard advertising the Japanese food fair at Isetan I’ve never felt more welcome in a foreign city than where I am at the moment – Bangkok! It has to do…
Multilingual histories

Pronunciation: A Matter of Life and Death

Translation of Christoph Gutknecht, “Codewort Schibboleth”, originally published in Jüdische Allgemeine, July 07, 2011 Each time I visit France and have breakfast there, I am reminded of Goethe. In his…
Language learning
German is so funny. Not.
Language in education
Refugee children left behind as eagle lands on the moon
Language learning
Some bilingualisms are more equal than others
Multilingual histories
Yiman does not have a word for ‘massacre’
English as a global language
English belongs to everyone?
English as a global language
Illegitimate English