Law promotes Mandarin as primary language of education and government China has 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, including Han Chinese Han, who speak Mandarin, make up 91% of the population ...

If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a ...

Since the pandemic, more children have been starting school without being “school-ready”. In 2022-23, 33% of all children starting reception in England did not have the skills needed for success in ...

Most employee recognition programs fail because they’re based on what leadership thinks should be motivating rather than what actually motivates the specific people on the team. Motivation isn’t ...

Editor’s note: This article was produced by a University of Massachusetts Amherst journalism student, in collaboration with MassLive, as part of a project in professor Steve Fox’s Introduction to ...

A non-Japanese-speaking first-time visitor used Apple’s new in-ear translation feature to connect with locals at bars, sushi classes and even a fire ritual. By Ruffin Prevost I knew my efforts to ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect. Whether in a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Learning a new language before the Internet was brutal. It involved dense textbooks and a bunch of in-person classes, spending innumerable hours en route to full fluency. We've come a long way since ...

A 19-year-old college student from Kalyan died by suicide after allegedly being assaulted in a local train for speaking Hindi. The incident has shocked residents and reopened conversations about ...

When the Mojo language first appeared, it was promoted as being the best of two worlds, bringing the ease of use and clear syntax of Python, along with the speed and memory safety of Rust. For some ...