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English-Language Books Are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu!
The New York Times via Yahoo News UK· 4 weeks agoAMSTERDAM — When Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan was in the Netherlands a few years ago...
Why universities shouldn’t mark down international students for using non-standard English
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 3 months agoRawpixel.com/Shutterstock The English language left its borders of origin in Britain long ago. It...
Francophone Week: The perfect French expressions that will give English-speakers a headache
Euronews via Yahoo News UK· 1 year agoFrance is going through the motions at the moment. Protests and repeated strikes because of...
Does Lionel Messi speak English? He’s learning, but at bilingual Inter Miami, he hardly has to
Yahoo Sports· 4 months agoMessi and Co. have transformed an already-bilingual club into a Spanish-first team. And as they...
2021 census shows English decreasing as main language but masks England and Wales' true diversity
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoMulticultural Tooting High Street, London. William Barton/Shutterstock The latest release of data...
English speakers, here’s how to pronounce ‘Qatar’
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe pronunciation of “Qatar” is a no-brainer for Arabic speakers and speakers of similar languages. But it’s one tricky letter after another for English...
British Language Is Shifting, Is Code-Switching Becoming A Thing Of The Past?
Huffington Post UK · 2 years agoYou’re reading Gen:Blxck, a series exploring Black culture, history, family and identity through the...
This AI Bot Translates Dead Ancient Languages into English
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News UK· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Wikimedia CommonsIn any number of sites...
A brief history of the mortgage, from its roots in ancient Rome to the English 'dead pledge' and its...
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 8 months agoMortgages can haunt homeowners. GraphicaArtis/Getty Images The average interest rate for a new U.S....
Lost in translation? How alleged 'Endgame' error implicated King Charles and Kate Middleton in...
Yahoo Celebrity· 7 months agoThe BBC named the two royals at the center of the conversation about Meghan Markle and Prince...