The novel follows fictional Japanese novelist Aoyama Chizuko and her Taiwanese interpreter, Ō Chizuru as they travel across colonial Taiwan.
A nation’s literature used to be tied to language, but this can no longer be the narrow criterion for defining a canon.
For newcomers to a country, success often depends on learning to read fluently in a new language.
Mamdani called for fairness in Arabic, Bangla, Urdu-Hindi, and Spanish during his campaign to become mayor of America’s largest city.
India is a home to numerous ancient and linguistically rich languages across its many regions.
Universal Language can add to its haul of Canadian Screen Awards on Sunday (June 1).
For years, foreign-language films have been recognized as an invaluable resource for language learning.
Languages with top scores for “snow” are all spoken in snowy regions, but top-ranked languages for “rain” were not always from rainy areas.
The word Inuktitut means “like the Inuit,” and is the name for part of a wider language continuum spoken across the North American Arctic.
The film goes beyond mainstream narratives, and enables viewers to imagine an India they often don’t get to see.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society created Toronto Spark to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, that is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.
