GalleryBeyond China: WeChat for Westerners
WeChat has 70 million active users from 200 countries outside of China. We explore how popular this app is outside of China for both residents and travellers.
Gallery8 Fast Facts: Milliennials vs. Generation Z
If you caught our post last week about the differences between Millennials and Generation Z, you’ll love our quick infographic on some of the things that differentiate them.
International Mother Language Day!
On February 21, International Mother Language Day will be celebrating that fact. The term “mother language” is a calque, literally a word-for-word translation of common terms such as the French langue maternelle or the Spanish lengua maternal. It also evokes three English near-synonyms: mother tongue, native language, and first language.
Often the first speech a baby ever hears, a mother tongue is the language in which an infant was mothered (or “parented,” to use a more inclusive term) … comforted, sung to, and loved. The mother tongue/native language/first language is not consciously learned. It tends to bring with it an increased level of comfort and recognition, and even affects how its speakers learn other languages.
Recent decades have seen a sharp increase in global population movement, motivated by factors that include economic opportunity, education, adventure, and escape from oppressive conditions or natural disasters. As a result, huge numbers of people find […]
