In bold if not surprising news, last week Swedish Education Minister Jan Björklund called for Chinese language to be taught in all primary and secondary schools, which would make Sweden a leader in ...

The people behind Duolingo have been trying to discover what the most popular languages are according to what people choose on its app. With a user base of more than 120 million, this dataset can ...

Guus Kroonen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Back in August, Massively wrote a little post about Swedish research on MMOs and language learning. That article provoked me, a gamer and teacher of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), to ...

Sweden's language watchdog has removed the term "ogooglebar" - or "ungoogleable" - from its proposed list of new words after becoming involved in a dispute with Google. The word in question was ...

Google recently got into a row with the Swedish Language Council over a new word in its official language: "ogooglebar" which means "ungoogleable." Google complained about the word, which the council ...