Tech: Friend or Foe in Preserving Local Languages?
Is technology friend or foe when it comes to preserving local languages? That’s one of the questions to be posed as part of a two-day event to mark the 11th International Mother Language Day (IMLD).
The International Symposium: Translation and Cultural Mediation will bring together experts in Paris on February 22 and 23 to discuss topics including bridging global and local languages and Translation, Mutual Understanding and Stereotypes.
Information sessions on UNESCO’s languages and multilingualism activities will include one on the New Atlas of Endangered Languages. In addition there will be two education presentations, one on mother tongue instruction in bilingual or multilingual education and the other entitled Technology and the Mother Tongue; Friend or Foe? More
