Arnaldur Indridason, célèbre auteur de polars islandais, n’y pourra rien: la langue islandaise qu’il manie avec talent dans ses romans sombres est submergée par la concurrence sur son île de l’anglais devenu omniprésent, star de la communication à l’ère numérique.
D’après les linguistes de l’université de York, l’anglais britannique va subir de profondes et rapides transformations dans les décennies à venir. En cause : le brassage de population et l’intelligence artificielle.
Dite en déclin à Paris, jugée sans doute à tort en perte de vitesse dans le monde, récemment ébranlée par une réforme de l’orthographe pourtant ni neuve ni fondamentalement bouleversante, la culture française est en proie à une sorte de mal-être existentiel.
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Sometimes it feels like we spend a lot of time talking about languages that everyone knows about. Your biggies. Your French, German, English, Chinese etc. But if only a tiny fraction of the world’s languages …
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According to the Instituto Cervantes (2014) Spanish has 470 million native speakers.
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Is there an optimal age for second language acquisition? Everybody agrees that age is a crucial factor in language learning. However to which extent age is an important factor still remains an open question.
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With language skills becoming ever more important, Anne Merritt looks
at whether there is a genetic component to language learning ability
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A professional translator and interpreter should be seen in the same way as any professional in the medical or legal profession, because ultimately all three are intertwined. There are cases where a
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Proofreading, editing and revising: there is no one ultimate definition. What translation clients need to know about the different types of work involved.
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Research suggests that speaking another language fluently changes what you pay attention to and how you remember events. But some say the idea that language can make you see and think differently is overblown.
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