Auckland's Pasifika Festival, one of the largest and most vibrant celebrations of Pacific Island cultures, returns to Western Springs this weekend. The festival, in its 32nd year, will showcase the ...

I’m a solo traveller keen to experience everything Europe has to offer, but I’m anxious about the language barrier and getting around ... Gone are the days of ticket offices, paper maps and old-school ...

All of Mikaela Saelua’s high school students are learning English as a second language. Their mother tongue is Samoan – poetic, full of expressive vowel sounds and unique – leaving most ...

In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, ...

In one of those conversations, I learned about a language kerfuffle from a few years ago that took me back to the 1990s, and reminded me of how beautiful and complex nonstandard speech can be.

There’s Tyler, the Creator play fighting with his best friend, Taco Bennett; Earl Sweatshirt not long after he returned from a Samoan boarding school; appearances from crew members Hodgy Beats ...

Samoan in Samoa In Samoa on the other hand, the opposite is happening. The use of Samoan language in school is discouraged or banned. Times when parents share Samoan stories, history and cultural ...

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