Children living in multilingual communities often learn in a language at school that does not match the language they speak at home. This mismatch makes it challenging for them to participate in ...

A Chinese man impressed many social media users after delivering an impressive basic Mandarin lesson, speaking Afrikaans, in ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

What were the new living conditions like? What type of work was allocated to the deportees? Do you think the authorities had given much thought to who should do what work? What could have motivated ...

Inside a brightly-lit classroom, around 20 schoolchildren are enthusiastically singing the Chinese national anthem. That song is followed by another tune in Chinese – one typically sung during the ...

As we celebrate International Mother Language Day on 21 February, we are reminded that South Africa’s linguistic diversity is one of our greatest cultural assets. Yet for decades, African languages ...