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Students choose AI to learn languages

Developers have capitalised on the sudden wave of interest with the introduction of several AI apps

Evening Standard

Data | Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil leads with 1.5 lakh Wikipedia articles

Among languages mostly confined to a State, Tamil dominates with over 1.5 lakh articles

The Hindu

How Mexican indigenous languages are surviving against the odds – new research

Being able to speak the dominant language wherever you are in the world has long been shown to be economically beneficial. This is particularly the case when you’re looking for work.

The Conversation

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Technologies can erase language barriers, say experts

Linguistic Society of India (LSI) president Prof. G. Umamaheshwara Rao on Monday, June 19, said that language barriers are getting erased and there should not be a classification of languages as ancient or recent, classical or standard, and simple or complex. “The notion of some languages being standard and a few…

The Hindu

How to use ChatGPT for coding

ChatGPT can be used to not only optimise the code you have written, but also to convert between languages or even write from scratch for you.

TechRadar

Listen: Why preserving Indigenous languages is so critical to culture

As we look ahead to National Indigenous Peoples Day, guest host Prof. Veldon Coburn speaks with Prof. Frank Deer, Canada Research Chair and associate dean of Indigenous Education at the University of Manitoba to tackle the issue of disappearing Indigenous languages and delve into how much more needs to be…

The Conversation

Wembley school where pupils speak 31 languages shortlisted for World’s Best School prize

Barham primary school was in the top 10 for ‘community collaboration’ in recognition of the work it does to foster strong relationships with parents

Evening Standard

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Google Meet adds support for more languages as others move out of beta

Google Meet now has more comprehensive language support for closed captioning and translated captions.

Android Central

AI translation may be an easy way for creators multiply earnings

This allows them to expand ad revenue sharing income across nations.

Fortune

Starfield does have a major problem, and it's not the Xbox frame rate (Update)

Starfield has finally been fully detailed, and it looks absolutely incredible. But sadly, millions won't be able to play the game owing to localization choices by Bethesda and Microsoft.

Windows Central

How we collaborated in creating The First Inventors to celebrate extraordinary Indigenous peoples' knowledges and technologies

First Nations cultures and languages are being revitalised around the country. More non-Indigenous Australians are becoming interested in what Indigenous knowledges can teach us today.

The Conversation

Rebus author Sir Ian Rankin 'thrilled' to be knighted at Buckingham Palace

Sir Ian, whose 26-books series on gritty Edinburgh detective John Rebus has been translated into 22 languages, was knighted for services to literature and charity on Tuesday.

Daily Record

Language learning in Northern Ireland ‘slowly recovering from pandemic’ – report

Research by the British Council found that the decline in language learning at post-primary schools is plateauing.

The Independent UK

A silver lining from the pandemic: how lockdowns helped kids learn the languages their parents speak

None of us is a stranger to the downsides of the pandemic. For families with kids, kindergartens and schools closed during the lockdown, and parents had to manage schooling and working from home.

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The Hindu

T.N. CM Stalin opposes ‘undue and unfair advantage given to Hindi’

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday strongly opposed a circular issued by the public sector insurance company, The New India Assurance over “Hindi implementation”.

The Hindu

Comics life

The status of the already steadily waning comic books industry became worse with the setting in of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cinemablend

If You Thought The Little Mermaid’s ‘Scuttlebutt’ Rap Song Was Wild, Try Experiencing It In 20 Languages

One of the new songs in the Little Mermaid remake can now be heard in 20 different languages.

Wales Online

Do you know how to say Heineken, Budweiser and Guinness?

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The places where bilingual is the norm

While New Zealand debates the merits of bilingual signage, Wales and Ireland have been using it for decades.

The Conversation

Language isn't 'alive' – why this metaphor can be misleading

“Living”, “evolving” and “dead”: we often talk about languages as if they were living organisms.

The Guardian - UK

‘The change in pace is crazy’: AI boosts climate information translation drive

Google-designed tools help 9,000 young Climate Cardinals volunteers who translate reports into more than 100 languages

ABC News

Language app Feed the Monster the latest tool in battle to save endangered Warumungu language

A language app designed to help children in Syria learn Arabic is now preserving an endangered First Nations language. As a cartoon monster in the app grows, so too do children's literacy skills — and the number of people who speak Warumungu.

The Guardian - UK

Languages and creative arts losing favour with GCSE and A-level students

More vocational subjects such as computing and business preferred by those studying in England

The Conversation

Where does the 'ñ' come from? The history of a very special Spanish letter

The letter ñ is the emblem of Spanish, the mother tongue of almost 500 million people worldwide.

The Hindu

How are Indian languages faring in the age of AI and language models?

As large language models like ChatGPT find more applications around the world, their adoption also passively spreads a prejudice against languages other than English, including Indian languages. Some researchers are working to remedy this.

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