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'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and other Oscars 2023 films show a trend towards linguistic realism in Hollywood

At the 95th Academy Awards, Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s Everything Everywhere All at Once took home wins in acting, editing and directing categories, and also won the coveted best picture award.

The Conversation

SNP candidates respond to seven key questions from North-East independence group

AN Aberdeen independence group has praised SNP leadership candidates for their response to seven

The National (Scotland)

Scottish The Chase contestant outfoxes The Vixen as viewers complain of 'easy questions'

A Modern Languages teacher from Dumfries and Galloway the Chaser to scoop up £7,000 for the team's prize pot- but viewers weren't so sure it was a difficult run.

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Man's £800 Japanese tattoo meant nothing when artist made 'spelling mistake'

Chris had wanted to evoke the Samurai's bushido code. A friend pointed out the text meant nothing thanks to a missing line

Wales Online

King Salman Approves Providing 1 Mln Copies of Quran to Islamic Attachés, Centers During Ramadan

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz approved on Sunday the distribution of one million copies of the holy Quran to religious attachés, Islamic centers, and guidance offices in 22 countries during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, reported the Saudi Press Agency. Ramadan will begin later…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ministers put £15m towards tackling decline in language learning in England

Exclusive: University College London to develop language programme in secondary schools over three years

The Guardian - UK

Leading London girls’ school offers Python lessons

Putney High School classifies coding as modern language

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Watch Itchy Boots Ride Into The Sahara Desert In Morocco

Itchy Boots is in Morocco, almost at the border with Algeria, and is ready to check out the sand dunes in the Sahara Desert as she travels in this video.

RideApart

How a primary school saved the Manx language from extinction

UNESCO declared Manx Gaelic extinct in 2009. Years later, a letter from a primary school on the Isle of Man proved them wrong, so the organisation took a step back and set up a new category: revitalised languages.

France 24

How linguistic diversity in English-language fiction reveals resistance and tension

Linguistic diversity, like other types of diversity, can enrich life. It’s a truism that languages and cultures are closely allied. Some believe that language imposes its own unique perceptual grid on its users.

The Conversation

Indigenous language names preserve local pride of place

Naming new places with Indigenous words helps preserve local languages at risk of extinction, say groups calling for dual naming to become standard practice.

AAP

Former reporter pens bio about the incredible life of Black Civil War veteran in new book, 'The Sergeant'

Shortly after 9/11, a group of Palestinian students had some questions for an American reporter about the lives and history of Muslims in America that sent him on a decadeslong journey, researching and writing about Muslims who had been in the United States since a few years after the Mayflower…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Yes, you can help the Turkey-Syria earthquake victims

The Antakya I know is a cosmopolitan city in southern Turkey. Kurtuluş Caddesı, the city’s central avenue, is similar to streets in Los Angeles or Miami, lined with restaurants and palm trees, resonant with multiple languages. The city was devastated in the Feb. 6 earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria,…

Los Angeles Times

Love languages are hugely popular – but there's very little evidence they exist at all

Love languages – the concept coined by Baptist pastor Gary Chapman some 30 years ago – has taken the relationships world by storm. It’s often the “go-to” topic on first dates, and for those in relationships love languages are said to provide deep, meaningful and reliable insights into how relationships…

The Conversation

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'Love languages' might help you understand your partner – but it's not exactly science

If you’ve ever flipped through the pages of a women’s lifestyle magazine, there’s a good chance you’ve stumbled onto a quiz promising to answer the question “what is your love language?”.

Daily Mirror

Your dog has five ways of telling you it loves you - here's how to spot signs

Pets are part of the family and deserve us to shower them in love as much as our other loved ones - they even have their own love languages according to vet expert Dr Ronngren

Wales Online

Boy given 10% chance of survival now maths prodigy at the age of four

Jamie Mohr can count in six different languages, outsmarts his teachers and even helps his mum budget

The Canberra Times

VCR tapes in an oven: How to preserve and digitise an entire collection of artefacts

Australia's only Indigenous national institution is digitising its whole collection to preserve artefacts and exhibit them in Canberra in the future.

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Veteran Playback Singer Vani Jairam Found Dead At Her Chennai Home

Veteran playback singer Vani Jairam who has sung in over a dozen languages in a career spanning over five decades passed away on Saturday at her residence in Chennai. Read further on Dynamite News:

Bristol Post

NHS spends more than £113m on translation services including 'fake' cartoon language

Avon and Wiltshire NHS Trust offered the highest number of languages at 122, according to FOI

Nottingham Post

Nottinghamshire NHS trusts spend £2.5million on translation services in 3 years

NHS services have an obligation to ensure interpreting and translation services are provided

Daily Record

Special Scots edition of Harry Potter has people in stitches over 'hysterical' differences

While the Harry Potter series has been translated into over 80 languages worldwide, one of the more interesting versions is the Scots edition—which has some "hilarious" changes

The Conversation

Curious Kids: are some languages more difficult than others?

Some languages seem harder than others. Does that mean that the brains of people who speak those languages are more stimulated? – Maria Júlia, aged 14, São Lourenço, Brazil

The Guardian - UK

UK business groups call for more foreign-language teaching in colleges

Exclusive: Report reveals postcode lottery as barely half FE institutions offer some form of language teaching

The Conversation

To revitalize Indigenous communities, the Residential School settlement must prioritize language education

After a decade, the federal government has reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit that included 325 First Nations across Canada. The class action was initiated by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc and shíshálh Nation in 2012. It was concerned with, among other issues, the loss of language and…

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