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Language and globalization

Who’s inward-looking?

Yoshiko Nakano's essay in Yomiuri Newspaper “Young people in Japan no longer want to go abroad.” This news reached me in Australia last year and formed part of the background…
Language at work

Monolingualism is bad for the economy

Losing their heritage language decreases the earning potential of 2nd-generation migrants In most countries of immigration, linguistic diversity is by and large ignored by policy makers. If there are language-related…
German-English vs. Spanish-English
Multilingual families

German-English vs. Spanish-English

I have frequently wondered how my experiences speaking German in public with my two daughters, 7, and 5, whom my wife and I are raising as English-German bilinguals in the…
Language learning
English language learning injustice
Eurovision Baku 2012
English as a global language
Eurovision
Multilingual histories
A golden age of multiculturalism
Intercultural communication
Divine linguistic diversity
Language and tourism
English in Iran
Intercultural Communication in Wuhan 2012
Intercultural communication
Intercultural Communication on Chinese TV