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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

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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.

The Conversation

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

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Comics life

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

The Hindu

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.

Cinemablend

20 popular beers you've been saying wrong - and how to pronounce them properly

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

Wales Online

Micro Review: 'Taatung Tatung And Other Amazing Stories' by Vaishali Shroff

Award-winning children’s author Vaishali Shroff is back with another captivating read titled ‘Taatung Tatung And Other Amazing Stories’ this year. In this book, she chronicles the history of Indian languages thus, offering a comprehensive journey through time and geography.

The Times of India

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.

Newsroom.co.nz

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 Conversation

‘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

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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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Windows Central

Pentiment gets updated with more languages and a new map area

Pentiment, the award-winning narrative RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is getting updated with expanded language support and a new area.

Al Jazeera

Chinese Indonesians reflect on life 25 years from Soeharto’s fall

The ethnic minority can now openly express their cultural identity but remain vulnerable to prejudice.

The Conversation

Sign language is set to become South Africa's 12th official language after a long fight for recognition

Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed to amend the constitution to this end. The move will bring to fruition three decades of a struggle to empower the country’s deaf community. An official language has legal status in…

The National (Scotland)

Appoint a government minister to protect Scots and Gaelic, Humza Yousaf told

HUMZA Yousaf must appoint a Minister for Scottish Languages in order to develop and preserve the country’s “unique linguistic heritage”,…

TechRadar

Meta's ChatGPT rival could make language barriers a thing of the past

Meta has put its AI project to work dismantling language barriers... and that's very exciting.

The Conversation

South Africa's 10 year-olds are struggling to read -- it can be fixed

More than 80% of South Africa’s grade 4 pupils – who are on average nine or 10 years old – cannot read for meaning. That means they can’t answer basic questions about or draw inferences from a text they’re reading. This worrying statistic emerged from the 2021 Progress in International…

The Conversation

Beatrix Potter's famous tales are rooted in stories told by enslaved Africans – but she was very quiet about their origins

Peter Rabbit, the cute and wily bunny who wears a bright blue jacket, is the best-selling creation of English author Beatrix Potter. Originally published in 1902, the Tale of Peter Rabbit – the first of 23 tales in the series – has since been translated into more than 45 languages…

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