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Law promotes Mandarin as primary language of education and government China has 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, including Han Chinese Han, who speak Mandarin, make up 91% of the population ...

Since the pandemic, more children have been starting school without being “school-ready”. In 2022-23, 33% of all children starting reception in England did not have the skills needed for success in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Learning a new language before the Internet was brutal. It involved dense textbooks and a bunch of in-person classes, spending innumerable hours en route to full fluency. We've come a long way since ...

A 19-year-old college student from Kalyan died by suicide after allegedly being assaulted in a local train for speaking Hindi. The incident has shocked residents and reopened conversations about ...

When the Mojo language first appeared, it was promoted as being the best of two worlds, bringing the ease of use and clear syntax of Python, along with the speed and memory safety of Rust. For some ...

Nov 2025 TIOBE: Python leads. C holds #2; C++ and Java dip as C# nears Java. Lower ranks shuffle — Perl returns, SQL at #10, and Go drops from the top 10. The November 2025 TIOBE Index brings another ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Charlemagne supposedly said that to have another language is to possess a second soul. As AI quietly standardizes legal language across industries, it may be creating exactly that: a second soul for ...

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for. By Nitsuh Abebe There are countless signals you might look for to determine whether a ...

YouTube announced on Wednesday that its multi-language audio feature has officially launched after a two-year-long pilot. Now, millions of YouTubers can add dubbing to their videos in different ...