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How English's Global Dominance Fails Us
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCredit - Getty Image—Baris Muratoqlu Back in 2012, in an op-ed for the New York Times, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers questioned whether the...
Olive oil jar — dating back 1,800 years — hid quote from ‘extremely popular’ Roman
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 12 months agoArchaeologists found part of an ancient clay jar containing a cryptic, first-of-its-kind...
Is tech making learning foreign languages obsolete?
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 months agoOle_CNX / Getty Images I wouldn't exactly say the French has been going well. A few decades after I left behind my high school language requirement (and...
Top Chinese university scraps English tests in move cheered by nationalists
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA top university in northwest China has scrapped English tests as a prerequisite for graduation,...
Kiswahili: how a standard version of the east African language was formed – and spread across the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJasmin Merdan/Getty ImagesKiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and...
"Taiwanese food is an underdog": In her new cookbook, Clarissa Wei writes a love letter to Taiwan
Salon via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSpread of Taiwanese cuisine Yen Wei/Ryan Chen/Simon Element/Simon & Schuster Clarissa Wei's...
Poetry is back, baby! Europe's poetry scene is thriving - but it never left in the first place
Euronews via Yahoo News· 3 months agoWith more events and cross-border collaboration, the European poetry scene is entering an exciting...
Op-Ed: Why 'canceling' the Russian language isn't the way to support Ukraine
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoUnlike during the Cold War, U.S. students now shy away from studying Russian. But we need to read...