New additions highlight Korean culture wave as interest in the country’s food, fashion and entertainment spreads The Korean culture wave has swept through the editorial offices of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which has added more than 20 new wo…
‘It restores my soul’: pandemic offers unexpected boon to Guam indigenous language learners
Zoom classes mean locals can more easily study CHamoru, Guam’s native languageAntoinette Charfauros McDaniel, a 58-year-old retired professor in Ohio, is trying to study her mother tongue. CHamoru, Guam’s indigenous language, is dying, with just 20,000…
My hovercraft is full of eels
How to Say What You Need to Say in Another Language. “You know those language textbook dialogues? Where people seem to talk more about silverware (“the fork, the knife”) and what color things are more than any real person ever does and, having mastered…
Requiescat in pace: no need to resurrect Latin in schools
Bob Ross is at odds with Tory plans to introduce Latin lessons in state schoolsI had to have a quiet chuckle at the education secretary’s plans to spend £4m on teaching Latin to the sons and daughters of the hoi polloi (Cartoon, 1 August). My first tho…
Ben Jennings on Latin and vaccines – cartoon
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Latin to be introduced at 40 state secondaries in England
£4m scheme will form part of government effort to counter subject’s reputation as elitistLatin is to be taught at state schools across England in an effort to counter the subject’s reputation as one that is “elitist” and largely at private schools.A £4…