#language-education

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Higher education
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 days ago

Opinion: Apple's translating AirPods won't work without state's language grads

Language degrees remain essential because human expertise in cultural, historical, and contextual meaning is necessary to guide, evaluate, and improve machine translation.
fromIndependent
3 weeks ago

Online Irish teacher Mollie Guidera: 'I think Ireland is going to be bilingual in my lifetime'

With waiting lists for her classes, everyone from Roz Purcell to The Smashing Pumpkins wants to learn a cúpla focal from Irish teacher Mollie Guidera. She tallks about spreading her grá for the language, the trauma how it was taught inflicted on some and her adults-only Irish college If there was ever somebody who embodies the idea of eating, sleeping and breathing a language, it would be Mollie Guidera.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Integration classes and complaints offices: South Korea charts a path to a cohesive multicultural future

Luiza Sakhabutdinova teaches Russian-speaking ethnic Korean students in the South Korean city of Gwangju. Many of them don’t speak fluent Korean.
Education
US politics
fromThe New Yorker
4 months ago

Does the United States Need an Official Language?

New York's linguistic diversity is a significant draw for immigrants, contributing to a rich multicultural environment.
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