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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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What is YOUR Word of the Year for 2025?

Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face Term was up against a shortlist including blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman Empire

The latest #WotY2025 is from Macquarie Dictionary:

AI slop

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Parasocial is named as Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year Examples include the parasocial interest shown by fans to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement.

The next of the Big English Dictionary #WotY2025 is Cambridge's 'parasocial'

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Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words The world's leading online dictionary: English definitions, synonyms, word origins, example sentences, word games, and more. A trusted authority for 25+ years!

What does '67' mean? Dictionary.com's 2025 word of the year has no definition #NPR www.npr.org/2025/10/...

'Showcasing our people, our language': Actors of 'Chief of War' on speaking Hawaiian Jason Momoa prepared for his role in "Chief of War" with a personal language coach who lived with him for nearly a year. Momoa is Native Hawaiian but didn't grow up speaking Hawaiian. He and other act...

Looking for a new show to watch? Check out Chief of War (starring Jason Momoa) to hear plenty of Hawaiian!
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Word of the year season begins!

Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year Shortlist Have your say on the Macquarie Dictionary People's Choice 2025 Word of the Year! Check out this year's shortlist before you vote.

Macquarie Dictionary has a #WotY2025 short list

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English education touches down in Tokyo | Subtitle Japanese universities go global, Manitoba's bilingual aspirations, and a Welsh translation mishap.

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YouTube video by Irish Independent Why do these Canadian locals have an Irish accent?

A little piece of Ireland in Atlantic Canada 🇮🇪🇨🇦
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Could dementia be the key to saving endangered Jewish languages? Sometimes when people's short-term memories begin to falter, they recall the first languages that they learned.

Elders with dementia and their caregivers are finding new purpose documenting endangered Jewish languages.
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Rosalía’s Thrilling New Avant-Pop Swerve: Singing in 13 Languages

For her upcoming 4th album Lux, Rosalía spent more than 2 years learning to write and sing in 13 languages.
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Baby talk and deathbed speech Steeped in linguistic and medical science, anthropology, psychology and, most of all, humanity, Bye Bye I Love You is an invitation to consider who we

One book that's going to stick with me a long time* is @michaelerard.bsky.social's Bye Bye I Love You.

*Maybe till I say my last words. I hope so. It'll be particularly useful then!

I was lucky to be able to review it for @thetls.bsky.social

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