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Multilingual families

Cost of monolingualism: $254,000

American society places little value on meaningful multilingualism for young people, or for adults for that matter. Nowhere is this lack of valuation more apparent than in the U.S. public…
Language and migration

English in the Crossfire of US Immigration

The White House (Image credit: Zach Rudisin, Wikipedia) Editor's note: The Trump administration has recently declared English the official language of the USA while simultaneously cutting the provision of English…
Linguistic landscapes

Banal nationalism for breakfast

Installment #5 in the mini-series on multilingual signage Signage not only appears in public space. Through our consumption of all kinds of products, we bring a multiplicity of signs into…
Language and globalization
A journey through Japan’s linguistic peripheries
Language at work
Multilingual diversity marketing
Language and globalization
Hallyu and Korean language learning
Multilingual histories
The monolingual sniffer dog and the lonely rabbi
English as a global language
India in Arabia
Language in Australia
Indigenous language denialism in Australia