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Every year, millions of students from all parts of the globe study for a degree through a language other than their first, usually English. In 2023, 25% of all higher education students in the UK were international students.

A study of genomes from ancient Siberian people shows genetic linkages with people living in Estonia, Finland and Hungary today.

LLMs are like “a Fulbright scholar who is interested in Asia,” said Microsoft’s Kalika Bali. “It’s an outsider’s gaze into the culture of a country.”

Fluenz is a highly praised language-learning platform that reimagines how English speakers learn new languages.

Who doesn’t love to show off their geography skills? This is part 2 of our Odd One Out Geography Trivia, designed for the true geography buffs: the ones who can spot a landlocked country without blinking, know which nations use the euro, and can tell the official languages of countries.…

How Samsung Galaxy AI makes the S25 the ideal travel companion

AI that’s been trained on English, and not one of Southeast Asia’s hundreds of different languages, “will perhaps not meet the requirements of Singapore."

The project will also digitise historic opera sets and millions of artefacts with leading French cultural institutions.

Last fluent speaker of Caddo language, the indigenous language spoken by the Caddo Native American tribe from Oklahoma, has passed.

For nearly two decades, I worked as a therapist in a large psychiatric hospital in Toronto, supporting people living with severe mental health challenges. Many of those I encountered were navigating complex intersections of psychiatric diagnoses, chronic physical illness, poverty, and the breakdown of family and social support. Stories of…

Sophia Kianni and Phoebe Gates met as Stanford roommates who bonded over fashion, climate advocacy, and secondhand shopping. Kianni had already gone viral during the pandemic by founding Climate Cardinals, a nonprofit that translated climate resources into over 100 languages. Gates, daughter of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda French…