Languages
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Sounded in Every Ear
Campus
Sounded in Every Ear
A new AI translation project brings gospel messages to speakers of low-resource languages in African countries.
Family
Spectacular Vernacular
Silly slang and cultural traditions accent and unite this one-of-a-kind family.
Campus
Yesterday: Akkadian, Anyone?
In 1954 a lab in the McKay Building lab featured state-of-the-art tech for language learning.
People
Called for Life
Laesgaw K’Chawtee aims to empower his people—at BYU, he’s starting by teaching their language.
BYU Speeches goes trilingual with Japanese and Spanish translations.
BYU anthropology graduate student and Hmong shaman Yang Vang shares how he's working at BYU to preserve his culture.
BYU translation minor Lila Norton leads the ecclesiastical-review team for the Macedonian Book of Mormon translation.
Only four people in the world still speak this language, but now you can too!
BYU is one of only seven Arabic flagship schools designated by the U.S. National Security Education Program.
BYU colleges, in just about every BYU discipline, are finding ways to connect with China.
Hanging in the Smithsonian, a portrait by two BYU photographers shows one of a language’s last speakers.
A new professor is teaching her native language in the first university-level class ever offered for it.
A lifetime working with his favorite author has led Gessel to translate novels and act as literary consultant on a film.
BYU ranks no. 3 in producing foreign-language degrees with no. 1 rankings in Russian, Portuguese and Arabic.
When “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” gets lost in translation.
Speaking in Arabic and talking about climate change, student addresses diplomats at the United Nations General Assembly.
An infographic shows how the mission-age change changed BYU. Now those missionaries are home.
For nearly three decades, BYU professor Janis Nuckolls has been unlocking the secrets of Quichua language and culture.
Christensen’s fellowship is 1 of 7 awarded to BYU grad students to help them expand their understanding of Europe.
This Hebrew primer will unlock the meaning in some common Biblical terms and enrich your scripture study.
Check out International Cinema’s five most-shown films and why they’ve become International Cinema staples.
Tata and BYU student programmers created BYU Translator, a smartphone app that keeps Olympics-goers in the know.
The demographics of the typical U.S. classroom are changing.