- English in India: When does it stop being a foreign language? | The Economist http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/02/english_india 9 comments india
- Senior German conservative politician Andreas Scheuer has said German must become the language of the country's mosques and that foreign funding from Turkey and Saudi Arabia must stop. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36034916 104 comments europe
- Kucinich: Stop Calling the Iraq War a 'Mistake' - "The "mistake" rhetoric is the language of denial, not contrition: it minimizes the Iraq War's disastrous consequences, removes blame, and deprives Americans of any chance to learn from our generation's foreign policy disaster." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-j-kucinich/stop-calling-the-iraq-war_b_5499375.html 21 comments politics
- Foreign students who graduated from Japanese language schools are falling into difficult circumstances due to spread of novel coronavirus. With flight cancellations stopping them returning home, and law forbidding them from work after graduation, many are stuck without means to earn money to live. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200420/p2a/00m/0na/019000c 3 comments worldnews
- America, stop bitching about all the Indian and Chinese engineers coming over on H-1Bs. The problems is your dumb-ass kids majoring in art history or political science in college instead of science or engineering. (I was a foreign language major, BTW.) http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/03/hard-jobs-fill-leadership-careers-employment.html 9 comments reddit.com
- Germany Islam: CSU head Scheuer calls for German in mosques. The senior German conservative politician has said German must become the language of the country's mosques and that foreign funding from Turkey and Saudi Arabia must stop. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36034916 479 comments worldnews