Social media round-up for July 22, 2016
- Vox had a great map showing the amazing diversity of languages around the globe.
- Man versus machine? Is there a race between the two when it comes to translation, and who’s winning? Information age asks, here.
- The languages of Canadian First Peoples are dying out – CBC News has an article asking if the answer might not be immersion education.
- The beloved novel, The BFG, reminds us that wordplay is part of learning and mastering language, from The Conversation US.
- Since few Brazilians speak English fluently, the country is offering language courses ahead of Olympics, from WKTV.
- The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article on just how different the word choice and language of politicians on different sides of the aisle can be, here. (Hint, it’s more different than you might imagine.)
- There’s something different about the bilingual brain, and Psychology Today showed us what that difference might be.
- TechInsider suggests that these 20 olde English words should come back into use. We agree, they are pretty great words.
- We loved these tips on how to learn a new language from TED Talk translators.
- In a strongly anti-imperialist move, Ghana will eliminate English as the main language of instruction in its schools. Read about it on Amsterdam News here.
- And lastly, news from our industry: Women in Localization appoints some new leadership in California, from Yahoo Finance.
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