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Linguistic landscapes

Croc warning

I took a picture of this sign during a family holiday in Cairns. My then-six-year-old daughter noticed the German “Achtung” and so asked why it didn’t say “Warning” in her…
Language learning

Reading ‘Culture Shock’ in Isfahan

In the past three decades attention has shifted from communicative competence to discourse as a frame for understanding the challenges faced by language learners. Yet, the question of how stereotyping…
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Language politics

Will technology make language rights obsolete?

Something has been nagging at me recently. I read a lot of tech news, and it seems automated translation is about to get a whole lot better, and a whole…
Language learning
Gaining a Green Thumb for Grassroots Language Activism
Finding Switzerland in Japan
Language and tourism
Finding Switzerland in Japan
Language in education
How to solve Australia’s language learning crisis
Language and globalization
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Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Life in a New Language, Part 3: African migrants
Linguistic landscapes
Japan in Arabia