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Science, Maths & Technology
How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Languages long unspoken are being brought back to life through statistical models.
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Languages
Would you want your child to become an interpreter?
"Mum, Dad. I know what I want to be. I want to be an interpreter." How would you react?
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Languages
Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
With the monoglot Brits no longer trotting in to Brussels, will English start to loosen its grip on the EU - and beyond?
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Languages
Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture
Schools in Birmingham and Kolkata; time as a student in Oxford and France - growing up, Reeta Chakrabarti was exposed to a lot of cultures and languages. In this short interview, she shares some of her experiences of language growing up, and explains how language can be a gateway to new experiences.
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Languages
What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Teachers who can only speak one language can, through the Golem Effect, hurt students who are able to communicate in more than a single tongue, explains Ingrid Piller.
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Society, Politics & Law
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
New research in Finland suggests that the time demands, insecurity and relative isolation of cleaning work may make the dream of integration harder for new arrivals to achieve.
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Languages
Language variety all but disappears from the Eurovision song contest
Why has the English language dominated the Eurovision Song Contest once more? Fernando Rosell-Aguilar explores what the competition holds this year.
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Languages
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time translation. Yet interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the neuroscientists who are starting to explain this remarkable ability.
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Society, Politics & Law
Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?
With elections for the welsh Assembly taking place in a fortnight, are voters getting a clear picture?
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Science, Maths & Technology
Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists
Latin American scientists are coming together to promote their work more widely. Felix Moronta explains how.
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Languages
Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
A new project, 68 Tongues, 68 hearts, aims to help keep the indigenous languages of Mexico alive.
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Languages
What is Applied Linguistics?
Something... to do with... language, maybe? If you're not sure about what Applied Linguistics is, start here...