Comrade Duch died yesterday, on 2 September. He ran the notorious Tuol Sleng prison during the genocidal reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and…
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Update: The Korean-language website has been launched at pyogi.kkeutsori.com I have known for a long time that I needed a website of my own in…
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In theory, Belarusian and Russian have equal status in Belarus as co-official languages. In reality, however, public life is dominated by Russian. Belarusian was initially…
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Turkmen is a Turkic language that is the sole official language of Turkmenistan in Central Asia. It is spoken by 72% of the population. Following…
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Paraguay in South America has both Spanish and Guarani as official languages. Guarani is an indigenous language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani subfamily of the…
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Luxembourg is a tiny country in Western Europe where multilingualism is built into the education system. When children start in pre-school, they are first taught…
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Like many people around the world, I am currently self-isolating due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not having had proper social interaction in weeks, I found…
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Ricardo Mbarkho, born in Beirut in 1974, is a Lebanese visual artist working in digital images and video whose unusual name immediately leapt to the…
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“Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer / Had a very shiny nose” The story of the Rudolph who was mocked by his fellow reindeer for his glowing red nose…
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There is a myth that the word ‘kangaroo’ derives from the reply that Aboriginal Australians gave meaning “I don’t understand” when the British asked for the…
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