‘I can’t say my own name’: The pain of language loss in families
(Image credit: Carolin Windel) By Mithu Sanyal26th June 2023 Mithu Sanyal never learned her father’s native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to reclaim it? Do you want […]
EXPLAINED: The rise in multilingual children in Germany
DPA/The Local news@thelocal.de @thelocalgermany 18 February 2020 Around 100 languages circulate around school yards in Germany. We look at the push to recognize the value of multilingualism at home – and in the classroom. Most people have only one. Seymen, age three, and Ensar, age seven, have two. […]
LAND OF MANY TONGUES: Has migration changed the Swiss language map?
By Kai Reusser & Balz Rigendinger APR 5, 2017 – 18:15 Switzerland has always been a multilingual country – and is becoming a place of ever more languages. Since […]
Multilingualism: Switzerland’s unique selling point
OPINION By Gabrielle Hogan-Brun JAN 23, 2017 (Keystone) The ability to speak more than one language is one of the more notable strengths of the Swiss people and economy. It also makes Switzerland a good test case for how the world might benefit from more multilingualism in economics and trade, […]