Macau's 'sweet language' on verge of disappearing
- 02 Nov 2011 12:34 - Staff Reporter
- Dona Aida de Jesus is 96 years old and is one of the last custodians of a dying language on Macau, a small island off the coast of Hong Kong.
A cultural gateway
- 22 Oct 2010 10:40 - Megan Hall
- A new isiZulu/Engish dictionary helps South Africans talk to one another, writes Megan Hall.
High court victory for SA languages
- 16 Mar 2010 16:40 - Staff Reporter
- Attorney wins the first round of his battle to force the government to honour its constitutional duty towards South Africa's official languages.
Good lessons in any language
- 13 Nov 2009 13:35 - Cornia Pretorius
- The problem with South African education is less about mother-tongue tuition than the quality of teaching.
Linking language, art and culture
- 03 Aug 2009 08:41 - Ilse Ferreira
- A tool, a hurdle, a weapon. An inescapable part of our lives. Language is all that and more. It is also part of our identity as distinct human beings.
Maintain your clam
- 29 Jan 2009 06:00 - Sukasha Singh
- Sukasha Singh: Once my mum sent me an SMS at work asking if I wanted "brockley" for dinner -- and I growled.
Please, I shot one!
- 16 Oct 2008 06:00 - Moses Magadza
- Being forced to speak Afrikaans for years didn't help Namibians with English language proficiency, writes Moses Magadza.
t2go 4 English?
- 07 Oct 2008 06:00 - John Crace
- Language guru David Crystal tells John Crace that txt spk is not responsible for bad spelling or moral decay.
Teaching words to computers
- 20 Sep 2008 06:00 - Glenn Chapman
- The internet got smarter this week with the release of a semantic map that teaches computers the meanings behind words.
Language 'divides UFS students'
- 04 Sep 2008 06:00 - Cornia Pretorius
- A Council for Higher Education report highlights the 'unforseen negative' influence of the parallel-medium policy.
Will BBI help coloured people 'feel comfortable in their own skin'?
- 31 Jul 2008 06:00 - Mandy Rossouw
- How do you measure suffering? And if you were to find that you have suffered the most, how do you get compensated for that?
Linguistic exclusion
- 18 Jun 2008 09:00 - Rowena Davis
- Certain languages are considered to be prestigious but community languages are often dismissed as irrelevant or second rate. Rowenna Davis reports.
