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The Online Language Archive serves scholars, speakers of endangered languages, and anyone who’s curious.With the click of a mouse, someone interested ...
Do they say “dude” in India?
Daisy Rockwell, winner of the International Booker Prize, on the subtleties of literary translationEarly in her graduate studies in South Asian Langua...
There’s a German word for that
Maeve Hooper on collaboration and a communicative approach to language instructionMaeve Hooper, AM’14, PhD’18, has dedicated herself to teaching the G...
Endangered Speakers
How does language contact lead to language loss?
The Republic of Sakha—in northeastern Russia, near the Arctic Circle—has one of the harshest climate...
Fifteen Ways to Say “Moon”
The challenges and rewards of learning Sanskrit
Nell Hawley, a graduate student in South Asian Languages and Civilizations who has served as a TA for...
Language Artists
A conversation about teaching and learning second languages.
During the 2014–15 academic year, the Division of the Humanities will offer instruction ...
“Sanskrit Will Make Your Life Better”
And other reasons to study the languages that UChicago instructors teach.
Why should—and why do—people learn the languages you teach?Noha Forster: Ov...
Vital Signs
Three scholars meet where gesture, sign, and language converge.
When sign language linguistics expert Diane Brentari, PhD’90, joined the University f...