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Esperanto Language Finds New Life Online
January 12, 2022
The Internet has changed a lot of cultural traditions in paving the way for people around the world to communicate with each other. It is easy to see how fictious tongues from literature, movies,... Read More
Every Language Is Different But…
January 7, 2022
Every language is different, but all languages have basic parts of speech as well as rules for constructing phrases out of similar building blocks. In fact, there are fundamental underpinnings... Read More
Which Culture Celebrated the First New Year
December 27, 2021
Throughout antiquity, cultures around the globe developed knowledge-based calendars that pinned the New Year to an astronomical or agricultural event. Some 4,000 years ago, the Babylonians... Read More
Why You Shouldn't Trust Google Translate
December 7, 2021
For many monolinguals, Google Translate has been a godsend. Gone are the days of thumbing through a Spanish-to-English dictionary searching for the word you just heard. Now when you overhear... Read More
How Colors Developed as Languages Evolved
November 23, 2021
Having found clues scattered throughout more modern vocabularies, linguists have concluded that human languages of the world may be derivative of proto human language that was spoken in East... Read More
Is America Still the World’s Melting Pot?
October 29, 2021
Anywhere diverse groups of people assimilate and blend together as one can be called a “melting pot”. Whereas many countries have a population made up of people who are similar in... Read More
Do Halloween and Day of the Dead Celebrate the Same Holiday?
October 18, 2021
Although both are ancient traditions that grew into global holidays, the answer is no. Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos) and Halloween (All Hallows Eve) are evolving events that can be traced to an... Read More
Are Healthcare Inequities Intensified by Language Barriers?
September 22, 2021
In many areas of our country, patients suffering from coronavirus that were not primary-language speakers generally fared worse than those who spoke fluent English. According to a study published... Read More
Do People Speak English in Iceland?
August 25, 2021
Although Iceland is a sparsely-populated remote island that lies just below the Arctic Circle, approximately 98% of Icelanders speak English as the nation’s lingua franca. Icelandic, on the... Read More
Shouldn't You Know What Each Attendee Said?
August 17, 2021
The answer is Yes! Everyone attending a multilingual presentation should leave with a clear understanding of what was said as well as accurate translations that account for linguistic... Read More
