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Language and migration

Discourses of Integration: Language, Skills, and the Politics of Difference

From inside Jaume Plensa's House of Knowledge, Bordeaux, France (Photo by Shirley Yeung) In much of Western and Northern Europe, we find ourselves in the wake of a widespread retreat…
Language learning

Why Are Uzbek Youth Learning Arabic?

Map of Transoxania (Source: Wikipedia) Editor’s note: Arabic language learning is experiencing a revival in many parts of the world, such as China, where it may be a source of…
Language learning

Learning another language at church?

You know you live in a truly multilingual and multicultural place when your local church does not only advertise their times of worship but also the languages in which the…
Intercultural communication
What did Angela Merkel really say?
Language learning
Competing Visions of the Global Promotion of Mandarin
Linguistic landscapes
English, the non-language
English as a global language
Multilingual Hong Kong
Language and migration
A Tamil Hindu Temple in Australia
Hanging on to German in the USA
Multilingual families
Hanging on to German in the USA