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GCSE results: more young people are studying languages – but the overall picture for language learning remains bleak

The 2024 GCSE results reveal that more young people in schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are opting to study a language. French and Spanish remain the most popular languages, with increases of 2.9% and 6.2% from last year respectively.

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Study arts and humanities because you love them (and so do employers, by the way)

Students should be told the whole story: understanding languages and cultures is a huge advantage in the workplace, says writer and film director Xaymaca Awoyungbo

The Guardian - UK

US voters speak many languages, but non-English campaigning remains risky for Harris and Trump

Tim Walz speaks Mandarin. But don’t expect to hear Kamala Harris’ running mate deploying his Chinese language skills on the US election campaign trail.

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AI pioneers want bots to replace human teachers – here’s why that’s unlikely

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy envisions a world in which artificial intelligence bots can be made into subject matter experts that are “deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world’s languages.” Through this vision, the bots would be available to “personally tutor all 8 billion…

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Brokeree Solutions Continues to Move Towards the Growing Regions. Company’s Website is Now Multilingual

Brokeree Solutions, an international technology provider for multi-asset brokers, released a new website version. Now the information is available for visitors in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese. This enrichment will make the solution choosing process more convenient for a diverse range of brokers and prop trading companies from the regions,…

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AI unicorn ElevenLabs picks London for first European HQ

One of the UK’s most valuable AI startups has picked central London for the site of its new European headquarters, the Standard can reveal. ElevenLabs, which develops AI-powered audio in different languages, has signed a lease for office space in Soho’s Wardour Street, at the heart of the capital’s creative…

Evening Standard

I’m from Poland. Why does Europe still make me feel like a second-class citizen?

I’m married to a German, bringing up my family in the Netherlands and speak five languages – yet I still don’t ‘belong’, says writer and journalist Olga Mecking

The Guardian - UK

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Bilingualism under threat: structured literacy will make it harder for children to hold on to their mother tongue

From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy – also known as “phonics” or the “science of reading” – to teach children how to read. But the very nature of this approach to reading could cause bilingual children to lose their…

The Conversation

Archive to preserve multitude of Indigenous languages

Languages from across Australia will be collected in an archive to protect the hundreds of Indigenous tongues while offering insight into heritage and culture.

AAP

More Than Words

How Indigenous language revitalization holds the key to the biodiversity crisis

The Walrus

People Can Now Speak All Languages In Their OWN Voice With GalaxyVoice.ai

In times when users can already hold full-fledged conversations with an AI, and when deep fakes are virtually indistinguishable from authentic content, the next step for translating human interactions seems logical: real-time speech translation in your own natural voice.

International Business Times

‘We need to be seen’: Nadia Nadarajah on portraying Shakespeare’s greatest heroines – as a deaf actor

When Nadia Nadarajah takes the stage at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre from tonight as Cleopatra, she will fulfil a longheld dream: to show others how far you can go as ‘a deaf brown woman who uses sign language and doesn’t speak’

The Guardian - UK

Apple Intelligence vs. Google Gemini: Which AI is better?

Google Gemini has been out longer, but Apple Intelligence promises quite a few impressive features. But is one AI model currently pushing ahead of the other?

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OPINION - Years of austerity have cut arts education to the bone – it's time to restore the music

With an incoming government that is yet to announce how it will address and dramatically improve the current funding landscape for the arts in the UK, as Co-founder and CEO of Restore the Music, I offer up a blueprint for a successful funding model for music education in state schools…

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Unravelling code inefficiencies to optimize CPU

Businesses are looking at new methods to optimize their computing power usage, but how?

Fortune

AI can help bridge Southeast Asia’s 1,000 languages—but the work ‘has to be done by Southeast Asians’

The full extent of Southeast Asia's cultural diversity risks being ignored by AI models built on English and Mandarin Chinese.

Fortune

Singapore's AI ambitions: How the city-state is keeping up in an arms race dominated by the U.S. and China

Collaboration between government and industry has made Singapore a competitive player in AI—and a "digital Switzerland" in the superpower rivalry.

The Conversation

Most of Australia’s First Nations languages don’t have gendered pronouns. Here’s why

If you visit Broome in Western Australia, you might be lucky enough to see Mary G perform. Mary G is a popular Gija comedian. On her website, English is used to describe Mary G as she and Mary G’s alter ego, Mark Bin Bakar, as he. But if you listen…

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Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about Google's new AI

If you're curious whether Gemini is compatible with your device, how private it is, or what features it offers, we've got you covered.

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June Ridge obituary

Other lives: Specialist in teaching English to speakers of other languages who was a committee member on the Bullock Report

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Apple Maps just launched on the web as a public beta – here's what you need to know

Apple Maps is now available to many more folks as it has launched in a Public Beta on the web. It promises more supported languages, better compatibility, and more features.

The National (Scotland)

Gaelic language in Scotland is in ‘perilous state’, MSPs warn ministers

GAELIC in Scotland is in a “perilous state”, a Holyrood committee has warned, with MSPs telling ministers more needs to be done to “urgently…

TechRadar

Meta AI's latest feature can show you in a fantasy world – if you feed it your face

The Meta AI assistant is adding seven languages and tools to make AI avatars of users.

Fortune

Do you have AI skills? Getting a job in data engineering will likely lead you to a six-figure salary and beyond

Data engineers with at least 3 years of relevant work experience can easily earn six-figures at places like IBM, Meta, and Capital One.

Fortune

DeepL, long a leader in translation tech, finally embraces LLMs

The German tech company says its newest AI translation models can beat Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI's tech.

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