Tag: Languages

What determines value? Does every language already have “value,” or must a language acquire something in particular to be deemed valuable? Professor Elaine posed a similar question in class the other day, pertaining to the word “culture” instead. “Identity and Activism ...

I say ‘readily able’ because I did not have to put in much effort. I am not special. I just happen to be bornt in Malaysia, a multiracial country, with Chinese ancestry. My grandparents were also bornt and raised in Malaysia but we are ethnically completely Chinese (unless a future DNA f...

The languages of the world differ from each other in how difficult they are to learn, some simply can be learned easily, while others cannot. It is also worth noting that there are differences in the abilities of students. Not all of them have the same educational capabilities. So, when we want to l...

The Afroasiatic (also known as Afrasan or Afrasian) are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic subregions of Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara/Sahel. With the exception of its Semitic branch, all branches of the ...

Urdu is derived from the Turkish word ‘Ordu’ meaning army or a military camp. There are numerous facts and figures scattered all over, but according to my mother who has a Doctorate in the said language quotes, ‘although it may trace its roots far in the past, it tru...

India has 22 official languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. India has 22 official languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gu...

AI has already reshaped various aspects of our society, and how we learn a new world language is next on the list of advancements. With the recognition of individual learning styles and preferences being pivotal in effective education, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revo...

My journey to learn English language started when I was 15 years old, I started to listen to pop music, watch some English movies (with my native language subtitles) and learn some grammar at school. I was excited to master it and interested in becoming an advanced English speaker. It wasn&rsqu...

An Arabic professor of mine at Berkeley, who was famous for his offbeat sense of humor and extensive knowledge of languages like Aramaic, Sumerian and Ugaritic, loved to talk about the difficulty of learning — really learning — a foreign language. “The first 10 ...