In an increasingly interconnected world, proficiency in multiple languages can be of paramount importance in small and mid-sized countries. Emphasis on teaching foreign languages can have the adverse ...

KHEMISSET, Morocco - “All the governments since independence have shared the vision that Morocco is an Arabophone country, where there are only Arabs, and only one religion, Islam. This meant we had ...

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. In a recent interview with African Writing Online, Laila Lalami, a Moroccan-American author, elaborates on her educational ...

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's economy is getting lost in translation. With so many students dropping out of university because they don't speak French, the government has proposed reintroducing it as ...

(Abdel Majid BZIOUAT/AFP/AFP) In Morocco's High Atlas mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, ...

Amazigh people wear traditional clothes as they celebrate their new year outside the parliament, with calls on the government to recognize the day and put more effort into supporting their language in ...

When an animal species is on the edge of extinction, there are plenty of ways to do your part (adopt an African rhino, anyone?). But what do we do when a language in in critical danger of becoming ...

RABAT: More than 40 Moroccan students sat quietly in the classroom and listened carefully to the Chinese conversation recording. They were taking the HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi), or Chinese language ...