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Jorge Drexler’s Music Connects Genres, Generations and Continents
A recent video chat with the songwriter Jorge Drexler quickly turned into a whirlwind music lesson as he demonstrated how…
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Is Geometry a Language That Only Humans Know?
During a workshop last fall at the Vatican, Stanislas Dehaene, a cognitive neuroscientist with the Collège de France, gave a…
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Review: Learning ‘English,’ When Your Accent Is a ‘War Crime’
If you’ve ever tried, as an adult, to learn a new language, you know how painful it can be; it’s…
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For Karla Knight, Paranormal is Normal
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — Artists attuned to the supernatural, paranormal and occult have sometimes been dismissed as eccentric visionaries, but the…
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Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year Is a Shot in the Arm
By Jennifer Schuessler Apologies to jab, shot and “Fauci ouchie.” Oxford Languages’s 2021 Word of the Year is “vax.” That…
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Quebec Language Debate Spurs Eerie Sense of Déjà-Vu
MONTREAL — When I go for a stroll in my Montreal neighborhood, the bourgeois-bohemian Plateau-Mont-Royal, I hear a Babel of…
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Amid U.S.-China Chill, Harvard Moves a Top Language Program to Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Harvard University will move a popular Chinese-language program to Taipei from Beijing amid a broad chill in…
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A Language Bill Deepens a Culture Clash in Quebec
MONTREAL — Since Aude Le Dubé opened an English-only bookshop in Montreal last year, she has had several unwelcome guests…
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