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Novelist Elif Shafak urges authors to write the book they want to read and to cut their work mercilessly.

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The French National Assembly will begin debating today whether the government should authorise the teaching of university courses in English, to attract foreign students from emerging powers like Brazil, India and China.

When minister for higher education and research Geneviève Fioraso presented a draft law including the proposal two months ago, she had no idea there would be such a backlash.

Although the socialist government supports the measure, some 40 socialist parliamentary deputies vehemently oppose it. Pouria Amirshahi, a deputy for French people living abroad, says it constitutes “a slap in the face of the French language” and is the result of “an inferiority complex”.

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No all’inglese come lingua esclusiva all’università. Questa scelta «incide in modo esorbitante sulla libertà di insegnamento e sul diritto allo studio». Lo slancio in avanti del Politecnico di Milano, che l’anno scorso aveva annunciato «solo lezioni in inglese dal 2014», è stato fermato dai giudici del Tar che hanno accolto ieri il ricorso presentato da un centinaio di professori dell’ateneo. Difeso il primato della lingua italiana sancito dalla Costituzione, anche per l’insegnamento nelle nostre università.

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The use of the microblogging platform Twitter has become a way for speakers of underrepresented and minority languages all around the world to connect with others from the same language group regardless of geographic distances. Young people have often been at the forefront in the use of these digital tools, which can only help the process to preserve these languages.

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iTranslate4.eu, l’innovativo portale di traduzione automatica è stato realizzato in seguito ad un progetto biennale finanziato dall’Unione Europea. L’Istituto di Ricerca di Linguistica dell’Accademia Ungherese delle Scienze (HAS, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) ha coordinato lo sviluppo della piattaforma, che fornisce traduzioni di alta qualità anche nelle combinazioni linguistiche più inusuali e offre fino a cinque alternative per quelle più comuni.

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De voormalige Italiaanse premier Silvio Berlusconi droomde ooit van een toetreding van Rusland tot de Europese Unie. Dat blijft tot nader order politieke fictie, maar tot morgen bestaat er alvast een theoretische kans dat er in de Europese instellingen binnenkort Russisch wordt gesproken.

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Parole pronunciate dagli ultimi membri di comunità remote, trascritte e documentate con file audio per preservare idiomi quasi ignoti, che rischiano di scomparire, col loro bagaglio di cultura e tradizioni. Otto nuove raccolte presentate dal progetto Enduring Voices del National Geographic.

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Language and communication are part of our everyday and working lives. We use language – among many other purposes – to exchange information, to establish and maintain relationships, to structure and coordinate social action and to shape and communicate our individual and social identity. For many people in Europe, mastering the challenges of their everyday and working lives does not only involve the use of one language, but two or more. Europe is characterised by its cultural and linguistic diversity, which has a long history. Its early manifestations were visible in archaeological and epigraphic evidence dating back to the formation of the civilisations of antiquity. The public perception of this long-standing existence of cultural and linguistic diversity is, perhaps, obscured by the tradition of telling history in terms of states and national languages – giving the impression that nations, as well as the languages associated with them, developed largely independently of each other.

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