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Brains - the benefits of bilingualism and learning foreign languages
a collection of articles and resources for teachers and students of English as a Second Language (ESL)
Websites and apps for Learning Languages
Global Edtech markets, startups - China, India, more
German - culture, language
a collection of articles and videos looking at issues in Cross Cultural Communications
A collection of articles about Learning Languages - why learn a foreign language?
articles and videos looking at Learning Languages - Chunking and Instructional Design
a collection of articles and resources for teachers and students of English as a Second Language (ESL)
a collection of articles and videos about Learning French - Language
A collection of articles and videos about Fordlandia Brazil
VIPKid - Ed-tech english language learning platform from China
a collection of articles and resources for teachers and students of English as a Second Language (ESL)
Montreal and Quebec City, Canada
a collection of articles about France, Culture and Language
A collection of articles and resources about Duolingo app for Learning Languages
A collection of articles and videos about crime and violence issues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A collection of articles and videos about Brazil and it's geography
A collection of articles and videos about Politics in Brazil - 2018 Presidential election
A collection of articles and videos about Politics in Brazil
a collection of articles about Research and 'authentic resources' for teaching language and culture (study abroad)
a collection of articles about Research and 'authentic resources' for teaching language and culture (study abroad)
A collection of articles and videos about Brazil with a focus on Culture, Race, and Inequality Issues
a collection of articles about Learning a Foreign Language
a collection of articles and videos about Journalism and Language
a collection of articles and videos looking at Languages and Cultural Communications
a collection of articles and videos looking at cultural differences around the world
a collection of thoughts about Naming: How to come up with the perfect Name for your startup
a collection of articles and resources for teachers and students of English as a Second Language (ESL)
A collection of articles and videos about the history of the English language

Resources within this category

Article

How our brains cope with speaking more than one language - BBC Future

Speaking a second or even a third language can bring obvious advantages, but occasionally the words, grammar and even accents can get mixed up. (2022)


Article

Consolidation in English language travel: how Covid-19 has changed the market supply

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many English language schools to close or temporarily stop offering their services to international students in th... (2021)


Article

The way it makes her feel - Renata Flores, a Peruvian singer, embraces her Quechua heritage

Catchy lyrics in the idiom of the Inca Empire | The Americas (2021)


Article

Computing for deaf people - The race to teach sign language to computers

Paying attention to what deaf users actually want is vital | Science & technology (2021)


Article

Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts | MIT Technology Review

More than 40 years ago, designers drew and edited thousands of characters by hand to make it possible to type and print in Chinese. (2021)


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Language learning startup Toucan raises $4.5M – TechCrunch

Toucan, a startup that helps users learn a new language while they browse the web, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4.5 million in s... (2021)


Article

Why the French love to complain - BBC - Travel

In France, a complaint is an appropriate and frequent conversation starter – but the appropriateness of when, to whom and about what to complain is... (2021)


Article

Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M – TechCrunch

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is ... (2021)


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Could VR Be the Missing Piece in Meaningful Language Instruction? | EdSurge News

In the early ’80s—when Euan Bonner was just five or so—he and his dad would tinker with their Commodore 64, copying code from magazines into the PC... (2021)


Article

Fluent Forever raises $4.9M for its language learning system

Fluent Forever, a startup that uses a novel learning system to help its users master a new language faster, has raised a $4.9 million funding round... (2020)


Article

The Long Linguistic Journey to 'Dagnabbit'

This piece of pseudo-profanity is what's known as a taboo deformation—a word we say when we don't want to say the word. (2018)


Article

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk - The New York Times

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map. (2020)


Article

Why Do Canadians Say 'Eh'?

The story behind Canada’s most distinctive verbal tic. (2017)


Article

How to Learn the Basics of Any Language in Four Steps

Four ways to learn basic fluency in any language for your next vacation so you can better interact with locals, get around, and not get ripped off. (2014)


Article

America’s fastest growing foreign language is from south India

No, it's not Hindi. One Indian community is growing like no other in the US. Between 2010 and 2017, the number of native Telugu speakers in t... (2020)


Article

How I learned 1500 Chinese Characters in a Month - Heisig Method Review

Before you stands a very long article in which you'll find my review and results after spending 31 days with a book called Remembering Simplified H... (2020)


Article

Sitzfleisch: The German concept to get more work done - BBC Worklife

Angela Merkel has it in abundance – how do you cultivate this crucial skill? (2020)


Article

How I Learned French in 12 Months

A bit over a year ago, I was a completely monolingual English speaker with zero experience with the French language. Twelve months later, I very co... (2020)


Article

BBC - Travel - Why people think Germans aren’t funny

If the Germans have always had a funny bone in them, just how did this unfortunate stereotype come about? (2020)


Article

Want to be more rational? Multilingualism might be the answer | World Economic Forum

We make more measured decisions when thinking in another language, but we're also less likely to be accurate, researchers say. (2019)


Article

7 reasons to learn a foreign language

Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language, an expert on foreign language instruction writes. ... (2019)


Article

Autoantonyms - words with 2 meanings, opposite of itself

Auto-antonym has Greek roots meaning a word that is the opposite of itself. They have variously been called contranyms, contronyms, antilogies, Jan... (2019)


Article

Why are some languages spoken faster than others? - Daily chart - The Economist

New research suggests that different tongues, regardless of speed, transmit information at roughly the same rate (2019)


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Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? – Aeon Essays

No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language "English speakers know... (2019)


Article

Learning Language in Chunks - The New York Times

How we learn languages in canned phrases, and what that means for the teaching of English. (2019)


Article

An American Phrase Book - MIT

A phrase book aimed to help newcomers to the United States understand the native English better. “Many people moving to the U.S assume that they... (2019)


Article

Why are so many languages spoken in some places and so few in others? - The Conversation

Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn't look for one worldwide expl... (2019)


Article

Why the French love to say no - BBC - Travel

Although the default answer to almost every question, request or suggestion is a disheartening ‘non’, a ‘oui’ is often hiding in the context of wha... (2019)


Article

What if Montcalm had won? - The Globe and Mail

New France was not the Golden Age nationalist myth-makers made it out to be (2009)


Video

Why being bilingual is good for your brain | BBC Ideas

What does bilingualism do to the brain? And are there benefits to being bilingual? Turns out there are lots of upsides. 🧠Made by Black Lab FilmsSub... (2023)


Video

Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie

"THERE'S FOUR NUMBERS, FOR JUST ONE NUMBER" SCHOOL FRIENDLY VERSION: https://youtu.be/vx2Ru0J6I9Q Cool Camera Guy: https://www.youtube.com/user/Tri... (2019)


Video

Y Combinator - VIPKID Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies

Y Combinator Published on Jan 16, 2019 Cindy Mi is the founder and CEO of VIPKID. VIPKID is a 1-on-1 teaching platform where children in China le... (2019)


Video

How did English evolve? - Kate Gardoqui | TED-Ed

What is the difference between "a hearty welcome" and "a cordial reception"?... (2018)


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Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern | TED-Ed

When we talk about ‘English’, we often think of it as a single language... (2018)


Video

One Simple Method to Learn Any Language

Scott Young & Vat Jaiswal | TEDxEastsidePrep, Published on Apr 24, 2015 While few of us will ever take on the ambitious challenge of learning four... (2017)


Podcast

Audio Of The Week: Luis von Ahn, Founder and CEO of Duolingo – AVC

Luis von Ahn is a terrific entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is the founder of our portfolio company Duolingo. In this podcast he talks about... (2018)


Website

Preply - Online language tutors

Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first l... (2022)


Website

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

With more than 30M tracks, YouGlish gives you fast, unbiased answers about how English is spoken by real people and in context. Use YouTube to im... (2019)


Website

The world's largest ranking of countries and regions by English skills -- EF

The 8th edition of the EF English Proficiency Index ranks 88 countries and regions by their English skills. (2018)


Website

SuperMemo - Want to remember everything you'll ever learn? Surrender to this algorithm.

Learn a new language at your convenience and remember it for good! Just submit to the SuperMemo algorithm. We provide you with the technology that ... (2018)


Website

DuoLingo: Learn a language for free

Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps! (2018)


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