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Essay Sample: English is widespread around the world and its dominance is colossal. Indeed, it is spoken as a second or foreign language by an estimated 1.75 billion

In her book, Mystery Big Cats, Merrily Harpur suggests that the Alien Big Cats (ABCs) of the U.K. may be something far more than just escaped animals. She suspects they may be Daimons. If you’re not acquainted with the word, read on. The Urban Dictionary says the following of the Daimons: “Daimon is the Greek... Read more »

Language Magazine Andrew Warner reports on a Russian initiative to digitize languages indigenous to Siberia March 7, 2021 4shares The Federal Institute of Native Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation has announced an initiative to develop educational materials and revitalize indigenous languages in the Siberian republic of Yakutia, many of which have low populations of native speakers. According to a report from TASS Russian News Agency, many children in Yakutia learn an indigenou...

705 A call has been made on Ghanaian parents not to sacrifice their native languages in favour of other languages in the upbringing of their children and the younger generation. At a ceremony to mark the 2021 International Mother Language Day, the Secretary-General of the Ghana Commission for UNESCO, Mrs Ama Serwah Nerquay-Tetteh, said while it was good to learn and speak other languages of the world, parents must remember that research had shown that proficiency in the native or mother tongue ...

Spanish, Portuguese. Apple earlier with iPadOS 14 added an Apple Pencil feature called "Scribble", which lets users write in any text field on the iPad, with the handwritten text then converted automatically into typed text. When Scribble first launched, it was only limited to the English and Chinese languages. According to MacRumors, with the beta installed on an iPad, users in these countries can now write in their native languages. Enabling a language is done through the "Keyboard" sec...