Michael HinsleyArchaeology Canaanite Inscription Found in Israel Is ‘Missing Link’ in Alphabet’s History haaretz.com - Ariel David The tiny inscribed pottery shard unearthed at Lachish dates to 3,500 years ago and is the oldest text from the Southern Levant to use alphabetic …
Michael HinsleyBIPOC Changing Our Language to Change Our World sierraclub.org - Hop Hopkins The world is changing around us every day. But in this never-ending pandemic year, the pace of change feels faster than ever before. To describe and …
Michael HinsleyLanguage Yup’ik engineers team up to build Yugtun language learning apps - Alaska Public Media alaskapublic.org - Greg Kim, KYUK - Bethel Two Yup’ik engineers are carrying Yugtun, the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language, into the future using technology. Their latest project opens the door …
Michael HinsleyLanguage Learning a new language is good for the brain (even if you never become fluent) verified_publisherthestar.com - Christine Sismondo Over the past year, I’ve really dropped the ball when it comes to my daily Spanish practice. Although the pandemic might not be entirely to blame for …
Michael HinsleyLanguage 18 Embarrassing Grammar and Spelling Mistakes Spellcheck Probably Won't Catch Inc Magazine - Jeff HadenHow to avoid looking foolish in your next email. A while back I used "farther" in a headline when I should have used "further." I did the same thing in the body of the article. Looked okay to me. Looked...
Michael HinsleyLanguage How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language? verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Alice GregoryThe Penobscot language was spoken by almost no one when Frank Siebert set about trying to preserve it. The people of Indian Island are still reckoning with his legacy. When I first met Carol Dana, in spring...
Michael HinsleyGPT-3 Language supermodel: How GPT-3 is quietly ushering in the A.I. revolution verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Luke Dormehl OpenAI’s GPT-2 text-generating algorithm was once considered too dangerous to release. Then it got released — and the world kept on turning. In …
Michael HinsleyQuébec After immigrant from France fails French test, Quebec says it may tweak rules for tradespeople ctvnews.ca - Selena Ross MONTREAL -- After a French man—from France—failed Quebec’s official French test, the province says it’s working on adjusting its testing for …
Michael HinsleyPublic Speaking Silence is the most misunderstood negotiation superpower verified_publisherQuartz - Anne QuitoPicture a debate or a negotiation and it’s likely you’re thinking of a rapid-fire exchange of arguments between two animated parties. Silence, meanwhile, is typically seen as a sign that one side is stumped—dead...
Michael HinsleySouth America COVID Is Threatening the World’s Rarest Indigenous Languages verified_publisherVICE - Simeon TegelFrom the Amazon to Siberia, COVID-19 is killing off tribal elders who are the last speakers of tongues that help us better understand how our brains work. LIMA, Peru — Emilio Estrella was a linguistic...
Michael HinsleyLanguage The secrets the Dutch language reveals about the Dutch - DutchNews.nl dutchnews.nl Talencoach founder Albert Both takes in some Dutch culture Can you really understand a culture without speaking the language? Students at Dutch …
Michael HinsleyCalifornia Department of Education These California Latinos didn’t grow up speaking Spanish. Here’s why sacbee.com - Kim Bojórquez Growing up in Stockton during the 1970s, Bill Esparza’s father forbade him from speaking Spanish at home. His father, he said, grew up in an era where …
Michael HinsleyYiddish Duolingo just added a Yiddish course. Could you plotz? verified_publisherCNET - Leslie Katz Learn a bissel Yiddish, or a lot, with Duolingo's new class.
Michael HinsleyVaccination L.A. County Wants Translators Available At Vaccine Sites iheart.com - City News Service LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to quickly come up with a plan to ensure that translators are available …
Michael HinsleyLanguage ‘Race against the clock’: the school fighting to save the Ojibwe language before its elders pass away verified_publisherGuardian US - Mario Koran in WisconsinIn the deep forest of the Lac Courte Oreilles tribal reservation, sixth-grade teacher Lisa Clemens abruptly halts the group of children behind her and points to the bald eagle circling just above the “Migizi!”...
Michael HinsleyChromosomes Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers nature.com - Dhriti Sengupta South Eastern Bantu-speaking (SEB) groups constitute more than 80% of the population in South Africa. Despite clear linguistic and geographic …
Michael HinsleyMilitary Elite US military language school drops Hebrew jpost.com - By RON KAMPEAS/JTA The Hebrew course is 48 weeks long. Cutter said the teachers — currently numbering 12 — would likely get other jobs at the institute or elsewhere in …
Michael HinsleyLanguage Pardon my French: dismay in Quebec as francophones fail language test verified_publisherThe Guardian - Leyland Cecco in TorontoLanguage exams have long struck fear in unprepared students as they nervously stumble over verb conjugation and struggle to get their tenses right. Yohan Flaman, a long-haul truck driver from Limoges,...
Michael HinsleyLanguage Multilinguish: The Story Of English babbel.com - Thomas Moore Devlin How do you tell the whole history of a language? In this episode, we find out. Subscribe to Multilinguish on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, …
Michael HinsleyCoronavirus (COVID-19) Community vaccine clinics breaking language barriers for Spanish-speaking Coloradans 9news.com - Victoria De Leon Vuela Por Salud's director, Diana Pineda, said the organization has spent the last year disseminating information about COVID-19 to their communities. …
Michael HinsleyUnited States Listen: Virtual Classes Prove Challenging For Adult English Learners In Washington D.C. Audioburst - WTOP "A D. C school for adult English learners had to suddenly shift their students, all of them immigrants to virtual learning when the pandemic started, …
Michael HinsleyAustralia Language Threatens to Divide Australia’s Chinese-Speaking Community newbloommag.net - Nathan Schmidt Nathan Schmidt English Photo Credit: Donaldytong/WikiCommons/CC IN THE AUSTRALIAN capital of Canberra, the decision to bring together …
Michael HinsleyCanada The Beatles’ ‘Blackbird’ Sung in the Indigenous Mi’kmaq Language openculture.com - by OC To raise awareness of her native language, 16-year-old Emma Stevens sang a version of The Beatles’ 1968 classic “Blackbird” in the Mi’kmaq language, …
Michael HinsleyLanguage Learn Spanish with a lifetime subscription to Language Zen verified_publisherMashable - StackCommerceTL;DR: A lifetime subscription to the Language Zen–Spanish Language Learning Program is on sale for £57.44 as of April 1, saving you 84% on list price. Learning a new language as an adult is no easy feat....
Michael HinsleyLanguage New research sheds light on how learning a new language changes your brain activity psypost.org - Caitlin Devor A study with first-time learners of Japanese has measured how brain activity changes after just a few months of studying a new language. The results …
Michael HinsleyLanguage The 7 Languages Great Leaders Speak Forbes - Dr. Richard OsibanjoA comedian's job is to entertain an audience by making them laugh. The comedians we remember long after the performance are the ones where laughter connects to something deeper. The stellar comedian performs...
Michael HinsleyLanguage Pontic Greek Still Spoken by Thousands in Northern Turkey greekreporter.com Pontian Greeks may have been forced out of their homeland one hundred years ago, but their language, Pontic Greek, still lives on today, in …
Michael HinsleyLanguage 10 German words with simply hilarious literal translations thelocal.at - The Local It may be a tricky language to master, but one of the great things about German is that you don’t actually need a particularly large vocabulary. …
Michael HinsleyLanguage Alien Languages May Not Be Entirely Alien to Us The Wall Street Journal. - Arik KershenbaumHuman contact with alien civilizations may be more likely than we think. A recent NASA study estimated that there should be at least four habitable planets (and probably more) within about 32 light years...
