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Don't simply show data, tell a story with it! At storytelling with data,
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic shares practical tips and examples of effective
data visualization and storytelling with data as well as information on her
popular workshops on the same topic.

What do we know about bilingualism? Much of what we once thought we knew — that speaking two languages is confusing for children, that it poses cognitive challenges best avoided — is now known to be inaccurate. Today, bilingualism is often seen as a brain-sharpening benefit, a condition that can protect and preserve cognitive function well into old age.  Indeed, the very notion of bilingualism is changing; language mastery is no longer seen as an either/or proposition, even though most schools still measure English proficiency as a binary “pass or fail” marker.

The displaced owners of Syria's Bright Fingers Publishing House are opening Pages, a new Arabic and multilingual bookstore in Istanbul, this week.

This study provides an important demonstration that everyday experience in one aspect -- language learning -- can influence children’s beliefs about a wide range of domains, reducing children’s essentialist biases:

To mark World Poetry Day, more than a thousand coffee establishments around the world will use poetry as their currency this Saturday

New Concordia research dispels a common linguistic myth.

For more than 2,000 years, several volumes of classical South Asian texts remained locked away in languages that have either died, have a dwindling number of speakers or no one bothered to translate these stories for a global audience.

When it comes to death, the living are often tongue-tied.

Is a universal translator possible in real life? We already have many
programs that claim to be able to take a word, sentence, or entire book
in one language and translate it into almost any other. The reality,
however, is a bit more complicated. Ioannis Papachimonas shows how these
machine translators work, and explains why they often get a bit mixed
up.

Brazilian rainforest, mountainous Oaxaca, Mexico, the Canary Islands, and the Black Sea coast of Turkey, we find languages that sound more like the speech of birds than of humans. “Whistled languages,” writes Michelle Nijhuis in a recent New Yorker post, “have been around for centuries.

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Call it counterintuitive clickbait if you must, but Forbes' Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry made an intriguing argument when he granted the title of 'Language of the Future' to French, of all tongues.

We have been writing in the language of our own oppression.

New Concordia research yields surprising results.

A Concordia study shows that kids exposed to two languages have different expectations than those who are monolingual.

Reading science fiction, chick lit and fantasy novels by writers of colour for a year brought home to me just how white my reading world was