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Students aiming for top marks should have “excellent control of their sentence structure”, notes O’Connell. “We hope to see lots of grammar rules within their conversation, such as the use of ...

Linguists at Charles University are reconstructing how ancient languages sounded. I discussed the Voices of Dead Languages project with one of its initiators Jan Bičovský.

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A Boyle Heights coffee shop is celebrating Guatemalan culture and helping revive the Mayan language K’iche’. At Ülëw Coffee & Juice, customers can enjoy Guatemalan coffee while learning Indigenous ...