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Turkey to give cash for soap TV series that boost national image

The Turkish government on Wednesday said it would provide incentives to producers of the country’s increasingly popular soap TV series that promote Turkey and...

Preserving PH’s rich reg’l literatures

"The use of vernacular languages in regional works preserves unique linguistic expressions and deepens cultural understanding" THE Philippines verily has rich regional literatures which act...

Promoting Ilokano culture, literature and language

“We would like to see how precisely these areas will effectively be implemented beyond the dried signatures” WE OWN this buoyant feeling following the signed...

Venice university launches course on Philippine languages, culture

The Consulate General of the Philippines in Milan and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice established a new Philippine studies program through the signing of...

‘Skibidi’ and ‘tradwife’: Social media words added to Cambridge dictionary

London, United Kingdom—Words popularized by Gen Z and Gen Alpha including "skibidi," "delulu," and "tradwife" are among 6,000 new entries to the online edition...

5 words of the year to mark ‘Word Nerd Day’

Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words.  While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many celebrate it with crosswords...

Halt ‘mother tongue’ use in K1 to Grade 3—Gatchalian

THE Senate has approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to discontinue the use of “Mother Tongue” or regional dialects in kindergartens...

The Language of Cats

If you are a cat person, that does not necessarily mean that you can understand cats and their ways better than anyone else. Cats...

Pinoys’ English proficiency dips

The Filipinos’ English proficiency has slipped seven spots in the global rankings by the international language training company Education First. The Philippines, which placed 20th...

The unkindness of profanity

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Monkey tests hint on language origin

Paris—Green and vervet monkeys live on either side of Africa and their evolutionary paths diverged 3.5 million years ago, and yet the two species...
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