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You’re Right, Drinking DOES Improve Your French
Researchers have found foreign language skills become "significantly better" after a drink.
This Algorithm Creates Its Own Alien Alphabets
The magic of mathematics makes a mysterious glyph that would make Tolkien or Klingon fans proud.
Ask Kady Anything: In Canada's Parliament, Indigenous languages still aren't an option
VICE News resident Canadian political wonk Kady O’Malley also answers all your burning questions about prorogation
How Indigenous Millennials Are Using Tech to Save Their Dying Languages
Decades of oppression and forced assimilation have led to the steep decline of Indigenous languages. Now tech-savvy young people are fighting to preserve their culture.
This Old School Wearable Puts a Thousand Languages Around Your Neck
Modeled after the Rosetta Stone, this nickel-sized wearable has 1,000 languages on it, including Swahili, Arabic and Hindi.
Are Duolingo Users Actually Learning Anything Useful?
Addictive language-education apps are essentially mobile games, and they add to your second-language vocabulary. But are users making any real gains toward fluency?
Start the Month Right with Another Seminal Ewan Pearson Remix
Listen to Pearson's sultry take on Berlin duo Languages' "Sleep Stream" right now.
Shitloads and Zingers: The Perils of Machine Translation
"Rather than be defensive about the possibility of being replaced by a machine translator, I am aware of the remarkable feats of which machines are capable."
Indigenous languages are dying in Canada. Here's how people are trying to save them
The fear is that, over time, the vast majority of Canada's Indigenous languages will go extinct. But there's a movement afoot to not just preserve them, but to get them back in active use.
This Entrepreneur Wants to Build a Kurdish Alternative to Google
Egerin is a Kurdish search engine that aims to bring Kurds online and preserve their languages.