#Beijing must reconsider.
Cog science n sociolinguistics has shown #multilingualism bolstered by edu n civil rights provides significant advantages in problem-solving, social perspective, n innovation which made the U.S. top on the world stage, which Trump/MAGA billionaire era has degraded putting national security at state.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6271gxpdkzo?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQieB5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeLTTR6tIA4EOUfVDsOoETGVsPIrNMicnkk03ct5nLSvqGKUPtrkW5TliVXRA_aem_slxyuzqkNGMZc95YpdCLyA

Why is China set to approve a new law promoting 'ethnic unity'?

A law that could threaten the rights of minority groups is a sign of the direction Xi is taking China.

More emergency calls need to be interpreted

The languages most often needed are Russian, Ukrainian and Arabic.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20214546

#LanguageSkills #Russian #Ukrainian #Arabic #Multilingualism

More emergency calls need to be interpreted

The languages most often needed are Russian, Ukrainian and Arabic.

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The article will be in German and will give me an opportunity to get used to writing academic texts in my native tongue again. It's been a while, and I'm both excited and a bit scared. The last texts I wrote in German are shorter texts for a non-academic audience, and it was surprisingly hard to find the right… sound. #multilingualism #academicwriting

“Senegal’s bilingual education reforms challenge the dominance of French—but foreign aid dependence and internal linguistic politics complicate the path to decolonizing the classroom.”

https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/whose-language-is-the-nations/

#multilingualism #Senegal

Whose language is the nation’s?

Senegal’s bilingual education reforms challenge the dominance of French—but foreign aid dependence and internal linguistic politics complicate the path to decolonizing the classroom.

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@mpjgregoire Yes, multilingualism is fascinating.

I had a francophone university friend who did his medical degree at U of T then went to practice in Quebec. He realized he didn't know many of the technical medical terms in French, and had to keep asking the nurses what the words were. 🙂

I imagine the same would apply, for example, to a francophone who did their computer science degree at an anglophone university like U Waterloo: they'd know all the English technical terms in computing, but not necessarily the French ones.

#language #multilingualism

An interesting (though not very surprising IMO) read about #Anglophone #Linguistics and English bias: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17447143.2015.1102921

> Asking a linguist how many languages they speak is like asking a doctor how many diseases they have.

Chomsky managed to avoid learning “the ebola of linguistics” after all.

#Multilingualism #AngloCentrism

Update. "Beginning February 11, 2026, #arXiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation."
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/upcoming-policy-change-to-non-english-language-paper-submissions/

Coverage of the new policy in Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00229-0

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

Attention authors: Upcoming policy change to non-English language paper submissions – arXiv blog

Update. "For the 1990–2023 period, we find that only Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish have expanded at a faster pace than English [in academic publishing]… Social sciences and humanities are the least English-dominated fields… Policies recognizing the value of both national-language and English-language publications have had a concrete impact on the distribution of languages in the global field of scholarly communication."
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.70055

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm