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The brain holds on to language knowledge for decades.
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Learning a language to speak adequately requires a minimum of around 870 hours. Some Australian states mandate around 1,000 hours through secondary school, but others require less than half that time.
Uganda’s English language policy isn’t applicable to schools in the the country’s rural areas.
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Uganda’s English language policy is at odds with the situation on the ground in the country’s rural schools.
Luiz Capitulino,11, and his mom Sheyla Do Vale of Brazil embrace after becoming official Canadians during a citizenship ceremony at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017.
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The language learning approach called “plurilingualism” empowers people to draw on many languages and cultural modes of communicating.
Hosting sporting events to spark an interest in language and culture is known as ‘soft diplomacy’.
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For South Korea, hosting the Winter Olympics is a great opportunity to engage the world with Korean language and culture.
Getting going early.
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We really might get gradually worse at learning a new language as we age, says a new study.
Small conversation or oral groups help people to learn a new language. When classes get too big, it’s impossible to teach in this way.
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It is important that all South Africans learn to speak an African language. But is making a single language a compulsory university subject the best way to make this happen?
Harder when you first begin juggling two languages.
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Bilingual children’s progress in learning vocabularly depends on their parents.