With A.I. Glasses, Korea’s Theaters Hope for a K-Pop Moment

Move over, supertitles! Subtitle glasses are taking the stage.

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Nonnamaxxing: do Italian grandmothers hold the secret to a long and happy life? Gen Z are turning to nonnas for inspiration on how to live to be 100. Will donning a flowery dress and making their own pasta sauce do the trick?

Words that would kill a Victorian child: Nonnamaxxing

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The Language at the End of Our Street - Australian Institute of International Affairs The case for teaching Indonesian in Australian schools has never been stronger. Yet enrolments have rarely been lower. A group of educators, researchers, and policymakers recently sat down to ask [......

Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country and one of Australia’s closest neighbors. Why aren’t more Aussies learning its language?

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I didn’t realise I still had my mother tongue in me – until I spoke Urdu in my sleep | Saman Shad There was something instinctive about it, like a current pulling me back towards the language of my parents and grandparents

“From the moment I landed in Karachi, Urdu rushed in from all sides…My brain did not ease into it. It simply switched.”

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The language “no one wants to learn” | Subtitle Judeo-Arabic's TikTok moment, the Irish wave in Canada, pronunciation gets political, and more.

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Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother The long read: Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conversation

Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother

Your accent… explained by Explain It to Me How you talk reveals where you’re from and who you’d like to be.

Hot off the press...I talked to @vox.com 's "Explain It To Me" podcast about accents and identity! megaphone.link/VMP7502393904

Catalan classes will be coming to New Haven, CT this fall!
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Air Canada C.E.O. Draws Scorn for Delivering Condolences in English

The video had French and English subtitles, but it was spoken almost entirely in English.
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Guardian style guide: A From A* to José María Aznar

Have you ever wondered why some publications write Nasa and Stem instead of NASA and STEM? It’s due to the acronym-initialism distinction.

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Are baby chicks more bouba or more kiki? 🐥🐣🐤

Florida says “English only” to drivers | Subtitle Florida rolls back multilingualism, a Welsh mishap in Cornwall, and the linguistic history of arugula.

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‘Deaf people can’t hide behind words!’ Inside the first ever dating show to use British Sign Language Hold My Hand focuses exclusively on signers – who can be refreshingly blunt and extremely revealing. Heroda and Hermon Berhane, the deaf identical twin presenters, say it reveals their community in a ...

This looks like a lot of fun, especially with identical twin hosts!
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Americans Are Learning Korean Because of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Across the country, Americans who love K-pop and K-dramas are flocking to Korean language classes.

Americans Are Learning Korean Because of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

Fans race to learn Spanish before Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show The Puerto Rican singer’s highly anticipated Super Bowl half-time show has inspired non-Spanish speakers to study Puerto Rican dialect and slang

Will you be tuning in to watch the Super Bowl (or just the halftime show) this weekend?
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UCLA foreign language faculty, students criticize language program cuts - Daily Bruin Abraham Adhanom was wrapping up his 14th year of teaching two African language courses when the dean of humanities notified him his classes would be eliminated after spring 2025.

UCLA foreign language faculty, students criticize language program cuts

Bad Bunny has made history by taking home the Grammy for Album of the Year for his nostalgic LP Debi Tirar Mas Fotos. This is the first time the Grammy’s biggest award has gone to a project entirely in Spanish.

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Putting Adjectives in the Right Order You do this without even thinking

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A threat to Southeast Asian language programs | Subtitle Southeast Asian languages lose funding, Canada's last daily Chinese newspaper, and how to translate peanut butter.

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The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It

MAGA is bringing the R-word back.
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Styles guide: is Harry’s album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. grammatically correct? The follow-up to 2022’s Harry’s House boasts an esoteric title – but experts say ambiguity might be the goal

“It all raises two questions: one, did Styles get it wrong? And two, does it matter?”
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A brief history of death threats - Subtitle Until recently, issuing a death threat required some effort. Today, anyone with a phone or computer can make a threat—or receive one. The result is a “golden age” for the dark realm of personal threat...

Are we living in a golden age of death threats?
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How composer Leoš Janáček set his daughter’s last words to music - Subtitle As 20-year-old Olga Janáčková lay dying from typhoid fever, her father wrote down everything she said. Later, he transformed those words—and gasps—into music. The grieving father, Czech composer Leoš ...

ICYMI: with the help of my son's amazing cello teacher, Petronella Torin, and the extraordinary journalist @patricox.bsky.social, we recreated the music of Olga Janáčková's last words, which her father had described in her final days.

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The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
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Now posted: The full list of nominees for ADS Word of the Year 2025. The final vote will be held this evening at 6:45 pm CST at the New Orleans Marriott. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
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Happy holidays from the Subtitle team! See you next year ❄️

A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last speakers are gone Many Native American languages only have a few native speakers left.

A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last speakers are gone

A college without language degrees? | Subtitle Change at the University of Nottingham, Nigeria's mother tongue education bust, the fate of Icelandic, and 2025 Words of the Year.

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And The Economist’s word of the year for 2025 is… An unappetising symbol of a messy year

And the Economist's #WotY2025 is:

slop

(Rather similar to Macquarie's 'AI slop')

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IU’s Hungarian and Estonian language programs are unique. Now, their futures are unclear IU is well-known for languages, including some only offered at a handful of schools.

Indiana University is one of the only in the US teaching languages like Estonian and Hungarian. But now IU’s programs face elimination.
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