Language

Should we still learn foreign languages? - opinion

Artificial intelligence is quietly challenging one of education’s oldest assumptions. For thousands of years, if you wanted to understand other people, you had to learn their language.

Children at Beersheba’s Hagar bilingual school read together
The children who received the real treatment presented an improvement in their communication and language abilitie

The treatment that caused autistic children to start talking

Google Translate. Now also pronunciation.

Finally: Gemini’s new feature brings it back into the game

 MEMBERS OF the Iranian diaspora in Europe take part in a rally in Brussels last September, marking the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini.

Iranian-Americans could strengthen US strategy against Iran - opinion


Caucasus-Lower Volga People Identified as Cradle of 400 Modern Languages

The DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported.

 Aerial panoramic landscape of the Volga river.

A hidden dimension of Java: Real-time and high-precision


Meta's 'Babel Fish': Mark Zuckerberg announces a universal voice translator

The SEAMLESSM4T system, reported in Nature, aims to revolutionize global communication by imitating tone and voice, bridging linguistic barriers.

 Meta's 'Babel Fish': Mark Zuckerberg announces a universal voice translator.

'Dictionary of Fine Distinctions': A book on subtle differences in the English language - review

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions merits study at your leisure. Burnstein describes his little volume as “Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning.

 An illustrative image of an excerpt from an English dictionary.

Turkish Language Association selects 'crowded loneliness' as word of the year 2024

"The terms 'loneliness' (yalnızlık), which expresses singularity, and 'crowd' (kalabalık), which expresses plurality, can coexist simultaneously," the Evaluation Committee stated.

 Turkish Language Association selects 'crowded loneliness' as word of the year 2024. Istanbul.

Report: Google developed artificial intelligence that "detects emotions"

The new language model, named PaliGemma2, is supposed to identify feelings based on images. This technological development is already raising ethical concerns.

 Google Headquarters. Artificial Intelligence Detects Emotions

Cats can learn words approximately four times quicker than human toddlers - study

Cat’s fast language acquisition process differs from how dogs learn words, often requiring training and rewards. However, cats form associations through subtle behaviors, such as gaze.

 Cathulhu.

What are kids saying? Here is your guide to Gen Alpha slang - explainer

Are you hearing people say the words skibidi and gyat? Do you wonder why people are using Ohio as an adjective? It's all part of the evolving Gen Alpha slang. Here's what you need to know.

 A list of slang terms popular among Generation Z and Generation Alpha.

A menagerie of metaphors: A history of animal phrases - explainer

Let’s venture into the animal kingdom and explore some of the terms and expressions that are derived from these denizens.

 A peacock showing off its plumes at Sultanpur National Park in India.

Say it with flowers: The history of flower-based phrases and idioms - explainer

There is a host of expressions related to flowers, plus many of their names have intriguing origins, so let’s take a stroll through life’s garden and take our pick of the beautiful blooms that abound

 Colorful anemones near Megiddo in Israel.