Languages in the News - Archive

The links below have featured on our Languages in the news section of the home page.

2013

21 May £3.1 million to boost student demand for modern foreign language courses
17 May How to encourage students to pursue languages at GCSE and A-level
16 May What is English?
13 May Languages in UK schools: where we are vs where we need to be
13 May How to teach ... languages creatively
13 May Keeping Endangered Languages and Culture Alive
02 May Luce Foundation partners with linguists to save endangered languages
01 May Unlikely parallels
28 April Preserving the Navajo language through Star Wars
10 April How foreign languages mutate English words
25 March Migrant English - and why it will only get worse
21 March Schools switch to languages after English Baccalaureate, says report
21 March Lost in translation: why modern foreign languages in schools needs an overhaul
18 March 'Study of languages key to global citizenship'
12 March Protection of minority languages is a human rights obligation, UN expert says
11 March Local languages: How not to piss off your hosts
23 February Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire
20 February Bilingualism: Pitch perfect
17 February British teens are the worst at learning languages? Once you've cracked Spanish, French is a doddle
15 February England's dire record on language learning laid bare in international study
14 February Foreign tongues aren't wagging
12 February Ancient languages reconstructed by computer program
12 February Latin a Dead Language? Not Really
12 February Pope resignation: Who speaks Latin these days?
04 February It pays to persevere with languages
31 January Polish now England's second language
31 January Manx: Bringing a language back from the dead
30 January 138,000 speak no English - census
28 January The Treachery of Translators
25 January How to Save a Dying Language
08 January Second Languages Slow Brain Decline
08 January Europeans And Their Languages: In Which Countries Does Translation Make Sense?
03 January How to avoid embarrassing foreign language faux pas

2012

19 December Learning a foreign language: five most common mistakes
14 December Learn English online: How the internet is changing language
30 November Why Learn Another Language When You Already Speak English?
27 November Free courses - now that's a language students understand
21 November Languages and Entrepreneurship. A Guide for Students
15 November Modern languages lost for words over low intake
14 November The Road to Language Learning Is Iconic
13 November First Welsh Act passes into law
2 November Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2012
31 October The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual
30 October All Australian schoolchildren will be made to learn Asian languages
19 October European Survey on Language Competences (ESLC)
17 October Language Mirrors Brain's Desire for Clarity
13 October Cracking the code: the decipherment of Linear B 60 years on
09 October Magdalene College hosts inspirational day for language learners
08 October Language Learning Makes the Brain Grow, Swedish Study Suggests
04 October The European day of languages
02 October Cromarty fisherfolk dialect's last native speaker dies
02 October Why we need to learn more languages
02 October New Zealand teachers visit Wales for Maori class tips
25 September Language Use Is Simpler Than Previously Thought, Study Suggests
20 September Study Shows Ancient Relations Between Language Families
17 September Women in Power, Power in Women
13 September Toward Multilingual Universities
9 September Language woes deepen
2 September 'Half of the 6,000 plus spoken languages today will disappear by the end of the century'
25 August English language 'originated in Turkey'
19 August An American's quest to impress his partner's Iranian granny
16 August A-level results 2012: foreign languages 'need eurozone-style bail-out'
16 August A-level foreign languages decline alarms examiners
09 August Petition to save Asset languages qualifications
08 August Welsh language faces online 'challenge' says Davies
24 July Telling Russian stories in English
24 July Taos Pueblo works to keep Tiwa from 'going to sleep'
23 July Wanted: Temp Attorneys With Foreign-Language Skills
23 July Celebrate Māori Language Week
16 July London 2012: breaking the language barrier
09 July Is language the key to hooking India on the web?
03 July Foreign language lessons pay off
29 June Guardian Books podcast: Minority language literature
28 June New York Times launches website in Chinese language
27 June Nepal's mystery language on the verge of extinction
22 June Google 'to save endangered languages'
21 June Pupils in England worst for using languages independently
19 June "Unglue" a landmark of African cultural studies
12 June Andy Martin: Well - do you want a better brain or not?
A second language builds cognitive potential, not just linguistic ability
10 June Labour backs primary school foreign language lessons
10 June New curriculum 'to make languages compulsory from seven'
07 June Great Zeus! Pupils to tackle ancient Greek - in one day
30 May 7 questions on less-spoken languages
30 May Holy Land residents revive language that Jesus spoke
15 May Cambridge Language Sciences launched
10 May Archaeologists discover lost language
09 May Papua New Guinean tongue saved from extinction?
08 May Every Company Needs a Language Strategy
01 May Being bilingual 'boosts brain power'
01 May Language Barriers Blamed for Miscues
27 April More language assistants to be employed in Scotland
16 April BCC: Boost exports further by improving businesses' language skills and international connections
29 March Why Bilinguals Are Smarter
22 March All children should learn foreign languages, say peers
09 March It's 'not' history
06 March Shakespeare in 37 languages at the Globe.
22 February Is English or Mandarin the language of the future?
21 February How do you become fluent in 11 languages?
21 February Languages are vehicles of understanding, tolerance
18 February Disappearing Languages
18 February Technology key in rush to save dying languages
15 February Speaking in tongues
05 February Why do we continue to isolate ourselves by only speaking English?
02 February Tongue-tied UK badly equipped to join in the conversation of nations
30 January Grants for Travel to Iberia and Latin America Deadline - 1 March 2012.
23 January English Language Teaching author receives honorary degree from Cambridge
03 January Aid your Business expansion with Language Specialists!

2011

19 December Bilingual school and university team up
07 December Island language in a sea of change
05 December 'Passio' launched at the University Library - a new collection of translations from the work of one of Hungary's greatest poets
01 December The gift of tongues
01 December The economic case for language learning
29 November The communicative brain What is it about the human brain that makes language possible?
27 November Labour backs English baccalaureate to boost languages study
25 November A Cambridge University researcher has spent a year in a remote part of Greenland to try to save an Inuit language.
09 November Powerful words - new study of ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India's intellectual and religious traditions
08 November How languages are built
05 November The Times Stephen Spender Prize 2011
02 November Unconscious language learning
02 November Making sense of language: learning across the lifespan
27 October In the global jobs market, foreign talk isn't cheap, it's invaluable
27 October British Council 'shocked' by stay-at-home Britons
13 October Impact of government policy on the provision of modern language degrees (Parliamentry debate)
06 October Anthony Seldon: UK must embrace language learning
04 October When will we get some fluent policy on modern languages?
04 October Bilingualism is good for learning
22 September Roman invasion take two as Latin returns to north Norfolk classrooms
20 September Stephen Fry on language and identity
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20 September Adventures of a palaeolinguist
20 September Learn the lingo says Bishop of Bradford
  ... Related radio interview
12 September The importance of mastering a foreign language
 9 September Mother tongue comes from your prehistoric father