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You say "lady" I say "feudal slave": Korea's language divide North and South Korea have never found dialogue easy, but academics from both sides currently meeting in Pyongyang are trying to steer things in the right direction.

03 November 2014

Teach English, not Russian in Ukraine schools: president Ukrainian President risked further angering the Kremlin by suggesting that English lessons replace Russian ones in schools.

04 October 2014

Bilingual schools tackle Spain's language shortfall Spanish regions began responding by launching intensive English "bilingual colleges".

10 September 2014

Economic growth kills minority languages: study Economic prosperity is the worst enemy of minority languages.

03 September 2014

President Nazarbayev on language policy and Ukraine Kazakhstan might follow Ukraine’s scenario should it ban all the languages other than Kazakh: President Nazarbayev.

25 August 2014

Speaking in tongues: China divided over the common language Throughout China, Mandarin -- known as Putonghua, the "common language", with its roots in Beijing's northern dialect -- is the medium of government.

25 August 2014

Viktor Sukhodrev, English voice of Soviet leaders, dies at 81 The legendary interpreter who served as the English-language voice of every Soviet leader from Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev has died in Moscow aged 81.

17 May 2014

Elephants can tell difference between human languages African elephants can differentiate between human languages and move away from those considered a threat, a skill they have honed to survive in the wild.

11 March 2014

Collection of Kazakh epos cartoons released in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan has realised a set of animation movies based on Kazakh tales.

07 March 2014

Microsoft denies Chinese-language Bing search censorship Microsoft on Wednesday denied censoring Chinese-language search results across the globe, but the group behind the accusation stood firm.

13 February 2014

Kazakh song of gestures stole American heart The story starts with Aaron Bean who volunteered in 2011 to be a part of Peace Corps in Kazakhstan and fell in love with a deaf Kazakh girl Botagoz Usenova.

10 January 2014

Harry Potter to speak Kazakhsha in 2014 The Harry Potter series will be translated into Kazakh in 2014.

08 December 2013

Nazarbayev calls Kazakhstan to learn English President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called Kazakhstan citizens to be tolerant and learn English.

01 December 2013

In Spain, even toddlers learn Chinese for job hopes "Xiang jiao! Banana!" says Fu Huijuan, beaming as she waves the fruit in front of her three-year-old pupil, Leon, at a Madrid nursery school.

31 October 2013

Kazakhstan President calls people to learn English and eye Chinese and Russian for future President Nazarbayev has called Kazakhstan to follow the example of India, Singapore and Malaysia and develop three languages - Kazakh, Russian and English.

21 October 2013

Kazakhstan’s President calls not to discriminate in terms of languages Only Kazakhstan out of the entire post-Soviet space was able to maintain a culture of multiple languages: President Nazarbayev.

18 October 2013

Kazakhstan to introduce language competency tests such as IELTS for public servants to measure their eligibility for trainings abroad Some public servants sent abroad for trainings are short of the needed language competency: Chairman of the Agency for Public Service.

16 September 2013

Over 200 languages lost in diverse India, study finds More than 200 languages have vanished in India over the last 50 years, a new study says, blaming urban migration and fear among nomadic tribes of speaking their traditional tongues.

05 September 2013

Kazakhstan citizens called to improve Google Translate Kazakh-speaking citizens who know English are welcome to contribute to development of the service.

15 August 2013

Development of national languages in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan is not to the detriment to Russian language: Russia’s Foreign Ministry Russia has been paying special attention to language-related issues as post-Soviet states are still home to millions of ethnic Russians: Russia’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Gregory Karassin.

18 June 2013

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