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English as a global language

Mongolian on the market

'Luxury permanent' Mongolian yurt for sale on Alibaba Last week when I saw in my friends’ Wechat group an advertisement for delicately made Mongolian yurts, I thought of an article…
Multilingual histories

The devil’s handwriting

How is your Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge coming along? Another month has passed and you should have ticked off the second book from our list. I read George Steinmetz’ The Devil’s…
Language and law

Language and Indigenous Disadvantage

Indigenous Australians are imprisoned at much higher rates than non-Indigenous Australians (Source: Australian Law Reform Commission) Note: This post was co-authored with Laura Smith-Khan. Language on the Move mover-and-shaker, Dr…
Language and migration
Shopping while bilingual can make you sick
Multilingual families
Whose job is it to raise the kids (bilingually)?
Language and social justice
The cult of personal responsibility
Multilingual families
German-English vs. Spanish-English
Language and social justice
Can speaking dialect make you ugly?
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Lies we tell ourselves about multilingualism