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California has the most non-English speakers. Why do lawmakers have to translate at meetings?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, D-Los Angeles, was leading a hearing in the California Legislature when a caller began speaking Spanish over the public comment phone line.

Tribune News Service

NSW SES launches new flood campaign in community languages targeting Sydney's north-west

A new information campaign to help culturally diverse communities in Sydney's north-west deal with a flood crisis will help keep them safe, the NSW SES Commissioner says.

ABC News

Experience: I speak more than 50 languages

During lockdown, I took short courses in Northern Sámi, Scots, Korean and Irish, and sat exams in Cornish

The Guardian - UK

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Should medicine be taught in the local languages?

English is important as a medium of instruction, but a regional language helps in practising medicine

The Hindu

Students cheer as online translation tools add more African languages

Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp in his mother tongue Luganda.

Reuters

Aunty Kathleen grew up having to 'yarn in secret'. Now she's helping revive her Indigenous language

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

ABC News

The Scots variant at 'global forefront' of push to preserve endangered languages

A VARIANT of Scots has been put at the “global forefront” of the push to preserve endangered languages.

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Meaning of ‘Swaraj’ not just limited to self-rule: Home Minister Amit Shah

Country’s languages, dharma, culture, arts and history should be passed on to the future generations, says Union Home Minister

The Hindu

Does ASEAN Really Need an Official “Second Language”?

If Southeast Asia really needs to have official languages, choosing all the national languages of the ASEAN countries would be a prudent move.

The News Lens

Bilingual education can work in South African schools: here's how

From the fourth year of schooling, the majority of South African schools teach all subjects in English only. The devastating learning consequences of this for children who speak African languages at home have been compellingly captured in the documentary film Sink or Swim. These consequences include lack of conceptual understanding…

The Conversation

Australian researchers develop new communication system inspired by rare Aboriginal language Jingulu

The developers of a new artificial intelligence system inspired by an endangered Aboriginal language say it has unique characteristics that make it easy to translate into commands.

ABC News

Language as barrier: On making mother tongue the medium for higher studies

There are both pluses and minuses in making mother tongue the medium for higher studies

The Hindu

UGC to launch portal for online courses

The University Grants Commission, in collaboration with MeiTY, will launch a portal to offer undergraduate and postgraduate digital courses in eight languages for the benefit of rural students

The Hindu

IIT Madras launches centre to build open source AI for Indian languages

The IIT-M has commissioned the Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat to advance Indian language technology with a grant of ₹36 crore from Nilekani Philanthropies

The Hindu

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Latest round of Closing the Gap data shows 'disappointing' progress for Indigenous Australians with four of 17 targets on track

New data from the productivity commission has shown only four of the 17 targets under the national Closing the Gap agreement are on track to be met.

The Hindu

‘Vachanas with their human values need to be communicated to a global audience’

Vachana translation workshop inaugurated at Central University in Kalaburagi

Newsroom.co.nz

Portrait: Martin Edmond on Vaughan Rapatahana

On an extraordinary Māori writer sometimes in Mangakino, translated into Bahasa, Mandarin, Italian, French, Spanish and Romanian.

The Times of India

Class 12 students score more in science, mathematics than languages

MUMBAI: In the CBSE Class 12 results, several students have scored a perfect 100 in science and mathematics as compared to languages.

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The Hindu

The Dravidian movement and Aryan illusions

The gubernatorial remarks on Aryan-Dravidian differences can only be described as a case of historical negationism

The Conversation

Small changes could bridge communication and cultural gaps for people from refugee backgrounds who need disability support

People with disability and their family members from non-English speaking refugee backgrounds come up against language and communication barriers when they try to access services, including the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

Chicago Sun-Times

Michelle Obama’s new book, ‘The Light We Carry,’ to be published in November

With COVID-19, an insurrection, increased hate, bigotry, intolerance and more, Obama said she felt “out of balance. ... I felt vulnerable and yes, at times, I felt afraid.”

The Hindu

CIIL plans to launch ‘Bharatiya Bhasha Sangam’

CIIL is also planning to launch “Makers of Indian Linguistics”, a series of biographical monographs on linguists

The Hindu

Regional, local languages should be promoted in proceedings at lower, high courts: Kiren Rijiju

He also said that no court should be only for the privileged and the doors of justice should be open for all

The Hindu

Ministry extends consultation period for draft disability policy again

Activists say the policy should be translated into sign language, regional languages

The Conversation

'Walk straight': how small-town residents navigate without street signs and names

Linguistic landscape is the study of languages used in signs. As most of the field’s pioneering studies were based on cities, research comes to be associated with cityscapes.

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