languages
New Tech Can Finally Translate Inuit Language—Sort Of
Microsoft Translator is a solid step in preserving a language that’s losing speakers, even if it often misses the mark.
The Activist Translating Climate Crisis Information Across the Globe
Sophia Kianni, founder of Climate Cardinals, is distributing vital information about climate change in more than 100 languages.
The Mongolian Metal Band Keeping Their Language Alive Through Music
The HU made a splash on YouTube in 2018 but the band’s influence resonates even more today, as some fear that Mongolian language and culture are under threat.
Inside the Fight to Save Alaska's 20 Native Languages from Dying Out
Alaskans are racing to collect their elders' knowledge of 20 native languages and design a pedagogy that breaches the generational divide.
Opinion: Doctors Privately Use Cruel Words to Describe Their Patients
The field's "professional language" can be pejorative, paternalistic, and aggressive.
These radio stations are reviving Indigenous languages
Nuxalk Radio station, in British Columbia’s beautiful Bella Coola valley, has become a model.
The Welsh Language Isn't Dead, But Your Opinion of It Is
As I love to tell people after a few Strongbow Dark Fruits, continued false claims of the Welsh language being "pointless" or "extinct" are just an extension of English teachers and tyrants quite literally beating it out of us in the past.
Emojis Bridged the Language Barrier Between Me and My Father
They're doing the same for many in households that speak multiple languages.
How ‘Westworld’ Uses Multilingualism to Explore Prejudice
From Japanese to Lakota, the show's foreign language episodes spotlight themes of identity and memory.
14 Kinds of Love That English Doesn't Have a Word For
Love is more complicated than swooning, star-crossed romance.