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Internet reacts to Mayor Mamdani speaking multiple languages to promote new campaign

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The Independent UK

Mamdani’s new campaigns in Mandarin, Bengali and Spanish wins hearts: ‘Bro’s collecting languages like Pokémon’

From Rachel Zegler to Duolingo, social media has been unusually enthusiastic about the mayor’s language skills

The Independent UK

Canada language programmes see sharp drop in students amid visa curbs

Canada's languages programs experienced a significant decline in student numbers. Restrictive visa and immigration policies were the primary cause for this downturn. Student numbers dropped thirteen percent and student weeks nineteen percent in 2025. The sector's direct economic contribution also saw a one percent fall. Policy barriers need addressing to…

The Economic Times

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Your Baby's Brain May Be Doing Several Things at Once Long Before You Can Tell What It Understands

Infants in the UK and Singapore learned an invented language only when they could see the speaker's eyes, brainwave recordings showed.

Medical Daily

How Lagos pioneers built a vibrant Yoruba print culture in the 1920s – at the height of colonialism

In Lagos in the 1910s and 1920s a new market of readers was emerging who wanted to express themselves in their own languages. Despite the dominance of colonial English print culture, entrepreneurs increasingly started using printing presses for mainstream Yoruba-language newspapers, books and pamphlets.

The Conversation

“Would Duolingo Be Proud?”: Test Your Knowledge Of Languages With 18 Questions

Languages can reveal a lot with just a few words - but can you tell which one you're looking at? 🔤In this quiz, you'll travel across continents without leaving your seat. From familiar European languages like Spanish, French, and German to unique writing systems used in Japanese, Arabic, and Korean,…

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A-level results: key takeaways for language learning

Exam-entry statistics in the summer tend to prompt debates about the future of language learning in the UK. These are often framed around languages being in crisis: fewer young people study languages than two decades ago, and concerns persist about the UK’s linguistic capacity in an interconnected world.

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Languages are disappearing, and the problem is political

Sophia Smith Galler’s How to Kill a Language introduces the many methods that are used to coerce people into taking up dominant languages at the expense of their own. These include massacres, dispossession, forced relocation, criminalisation and public humiliation, as well as more subtle techniques, like economic pressure and political…

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I checked GOG's most popular games and found shocking gaps in updates, DLC, languages, soundtracks, and more — 1,140 games are affected with 1,531 issues

GOG is known for delivering DRM-free games and maintaining older titles, but an update to a user-created spreadsheet shows just how many issues there are with the games it offers. Next time you shop for a game, you'll want to check this out.

Windows Central

Scottish Tories accused of 'scapegoating' bilingual children in 'pathetic' attack

The Scottish Tories have been accused of 'scapegoating' bilingual children after an MSP warned that an increase in the number of pupils…

The National (Scotland)

91 People Who Accidentally Created Comedy Gold With Their Broken English (New Pics)

With around 7,000 languages spoken across the world today, it’s no surprise that things sometimes get a little mixed up when people try to communicate across language barriers. Every now and again, though, these misunderstandings produce hilarious results. We’ve rounded up pictures where attempts at English ended up saying something…

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Vladimir Okhotnikov: Why Lifelong Growth Is the Foundation of Modern Leadership

Vladimir Okhotnikov sees lifelong learning, travel, and cultural immersion as foundations for stronger leadership and better decision-making.

Latin Times

Elvish, Klingon and Pig Latin: what can invented languages teach us about the human brain?

Invented languages tend to be the stuff of fantasy or science fiction worlds. But as a child, you may have made one up yourself.

The Conversation

Did Gandhari Ever See Duryodhana? The Truth May Surprise You

Almost everyone has heard the famous story that Queen Gandhari removed her blindfold after many years to make Duryodhana's body as strong as a thunderbolt. It is one of the most popular Mahabharata stories shared in books, television shows, and social media. But have you ever wondered whether this incident…

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The Conversation

Zed Beats: how home studios reinvented Zambian pop music and gave young people a voice

Zed Beats is a music movement that evolved in the late 1980s when young producers started using computers to blend western music with local languages and flavour. Today it’s an umbrella term for popular urban music in Zambia.

Times Life

What Thiruvalluvar's Kural Teaches About Ethical Leadership That Corporate India Has Forgotten

The Book That Predates Every MBA CurriculumThe Thirukkural is divided into three books: Aram (virtue), Porul (wealth and statecraft), and Inbam (love). Corporate India, when it bothers with the text at all, tends to quote from Porul, the section on governance and strategy, and ignore Aram entirely. That selective reading…

The Independent UK

New Zealand’s decision to recognise a new official language draws sharp criticism: ‘Embarrassing waste of time’

English given the same status Māori and sign language

The Economic Times

Supreme Court urged to urgently hear pleas against CBSE's 3-language rule for Class 9 students

The Supreme Court heard pleas challenging the CBSE's new three-language policy. This policy mandates two native Indian languages for Class 9 students. Petitioners argued against the policy's implementation due to teacher and book shortages. The CBSE and Centre defended the policy as vital for national integration. The court is considering…

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AI translators are getting more fluent – but communication is never just a matter of words

Speak into a phone and an app can render your words in another language in seconds. AI-powered speech translation can be fast, convenient and fluent. But fluency does not guarantee that people will understand one another.

Euronews

Tongue tied: Humans once spoke tens of thousands of languages, so what happened?

According to a study published in the journal Science, today's spoken languages are the legacy of a handful that survived a major "language bottleneck" in the past.

The Economic Times

Our omnivorous appetite: Rise of a seamless local-national consumer identity through vernacular creativity that AI will fuel

India is embracing an omnichannel identity, blending nationality and locality effectively. Localized content is experiencing a scalable resurgence, delighting businesses and creators. Technology and craft are uniting, creating new opportunities across various sectors. Regional languages and cultures are gaining prominence and economic value. This shift signifies a new era of…

The Economic Times

India among most critical markets: Zoom President of Product and Engineering, Velchamy Sankarlingam

Zoom views India as a vital market due to its large talent pool and innovation. The company is expanding its services and AI adoption within the country. Zoom has established technology and data centers in India to support its operations. They are investing in Zoom Phone and Contact Center solutions…

Times Life

How Horse Domestication Reshaped Civilization, Warfare, Trade, and Human History

The Moment Everything AcceleratedAround 3500 BCE, on the Pontic-Caspian steppe, the grasslands stretching across what is now Ukraine and Kazakhstan, humans first began riding horses rather than just eating them. The evidence comes from bit wear on the teeth of horses excavated at Dereivka, a site studied extensively by archaeologist…

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How App Nicknames and Shortened Links Create Confusion for Multilingual Messaging Users

Global messaging platforms often acquire regional nicknames as they move across languages and markets. These informal names can make an application easier to discuss, but they can also make search results, web logins, download pages, and invitation links more difficult to verify.

The Times of India

Quote of the day by Elif Shafak: 'Do not go with the flow. Be the flow' and how to break passivity

Elif Shafak is a British-Turkish novelist, essayist, and academic. She is one of the most widely read Turkish authors in the world, with her work translated into nearly 60 languages. Her writing bridges Eastern and Western storytelling, weaving together history, Sufi mysticism, philosophy, and social critique. Beyond her literary output,…

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