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Your child knows English. So why are they afraid to speak it?

Knowing English and speaking it are different skills. Here’s how confidence, conversation practice and the right learning environment can help children become fluent speakers.

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ULPAN LA-INYAN instructor Moshe Shmuel teaches basic Hebrew; teacher, trainer & educational program developer Tali Itzhakov (below) works with a student.

Putting conversation first: Jerusalem ulpan founder reflects on 18 years of teaching Hebrew to olim

The leumi app is available in 5 languages.

Banking made more accessible, in every language

AI English-learning startup Loora founders CEO Roy Mor and CTO Yonti Levin.

Israeli AI English-learning startup Loora raises $22m. in Series B


Unbabel enhances AI translation tech with acquisition of Israel-based Bablic

The acquisition will help facilitate performance of websites world wide, by helping them translate them through AI.

 Hebrew letters (illustrative)

Where do medical terms, disease names come from?

In the medical field, there are many terms and physical conditions that are named for people or trace their origins to Latin roots.

 A doctor is seen tending to a patient (Illustrative).

Toxic boss gaslighting you? What these pop-psychology terms really mean

A number of words used by psychologists have started being used in everyday discourse, but these words like toxic, gaslighting, and OCD are being misused. Here's what they really mean.

 Illustrative image of a person dealing with depression.

Israel, Yad L'Olim reach breakthrough in healthcare accessibility for olim

Healthcare providers will now receive funding to employ medical experts able to communicate with Olim in their native languages.

 Female doctor looking at x ray film of patient head injury while working with another doctor at the hospital. Medical healthcare staff and doctor service.

Israeli artist brings ancient language back to life in song

Dor Zlekha Levy's One Tongue audiovisual project revives Proto-Semitic, the ancestral language of Hebrew and Arabic, in song.

 Beit Guvrin bell caves

Primitive language among chimps discovered by scientists using fake snakes - study

The snake model used for the study was manufactured from the skin of a dead python.

 Wild chimpanzee Fiona shows a leaf to her mother.

Medieval Jewish thinker Maimonides wrote in Romance language - research

Maimonides, born Moses ben Maimon and also known as the Rambam, is one of the great scholars and thinkers of his time, even among non-Jewish contemporaries. 

The Rambam

Turkey seeks a change

This whole promotional effort is really directed against English usage. Negative associations of the word “turkey” with roast dinner do not affect other languages.

 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announces elections for May 14, 2023.

Advancements in AI help researchers identify early Alzheimer's - study

Researchers have made a breakthrough in AI machine learning allowing them to identify early Alzheimer's through significantly less labor-intensive methods.

Artificial intelligence (Ilustrative)

Our Passover wish: Israelis disagreeing agreeably - opinion

Let us hope that the lesson of this season will be well learned by all of us so that we can enjoy the Lord’s bounty while recognizing the value each of us brings to the table.

 CHRISTIAN WORSHIPERS take part in a Good Friday procession in Jerusalem’s Old City. With the confluence of Passover, Easter and Ramadan earlier in 2023