Prince A. Williams ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a History concentrator in Adams House. Before my sophomore year, I was terrified of deciding what foreign language to take. The idea of learning ...

How is it that in the 21st century, despite unprecedented advances in technology, globalisation and education reforms, nine ...

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Foundational learning comprises basic literacy, numeracy and transferable skills such as social and emotional skills, critical thinking and problem-solving. These skills are the bedrock and building ...

For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...

This semester, I have started teaching the Kiswahili language at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. It is a milestone, as it ...

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...

The underrepresentation of Indigenous African languages online has long been a challenge. In recent years, Africans have taken up the task of bridging this digital divide, recognizing the importance ...

Thursday, Google announced that Google Translate, its multilingual neural machine translation service, has begun offering the possibility of translation into 24 more languages. Ten of the new ...

Servaas van der Berg receives funding from the Millennium Trust, the National Research Foundation, the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies and the MS Dell Foundation. Chris van Wyk receives funding from ...

The government of Russia will start teaching three major African languages in select schools in Moscow beginning this year, as the country seeks to deepen ties with the continent, in the face of ...