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Will Duo, the aggressive avian mascot of Duolingo, the world’s most popular language-learning app, be soon hitting stages globally in a masterful combination of musical theatre, ice skating, and linguistic pedagogy? Erm… no. This year’s prize for the best April Fools’ corporate campaign goes to Duolingo for their fake ice skating musical, Duolingo on Ice. Not only was the advert so convincing that it had most of the Euronews Culture team under the impression it was real, but when we found out it wasn’t, we wished it was. Everything you need to know about the upcoming Tom Holland 'Romeo & Julie...
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Thinking of heading to France for Easter or in the near future for a holiday? While you may find that the French are surprisingly accommodating when it comes to helping out in English, despite their reputation for being stuck up, there are still regional expressions that pop up all too frequently – and will leave you scratching your head. Fear not, help is at hand. According to a recent survey%2C%20chaber%20(regarder).) examining the use of regional languages, carried out by online language learning website Preply, even the French are somewhat bemused by the sheer amount of different dialects ...
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It’s becoming increasingly obvious that speaking English is no longer a prerequisite for global musical success in the streaming age. After Luminate’s 2023 Year-End Music Report found more young US listeners are gravitating towards “world music” in languages other than English, Spotify’s Loud & Clear report confirmed that global listeners have developed increasingly diverse music tastes. The annual music economics report, which was released today (Tuesday, 19 March), found that over half of the artists who generated at least $10,000 (€9,220) on Spotify are from countries where English is not t...
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People who speak more than five languages, known as polyglots, light up in the “language network” of the brain when they listen to languages that they speak, with stronger responses to the ones they are most proficient in. However, according to a new study, when listening to their native tongues, the brain’s activity was either similar or dropped off compared to non-native languages they were fluent in. “Something makes it a little bit easier to process - maybe it’s that you’ve spent more time using that language - and you get a dip in activity for the native language compared to other languag...
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Every so often, the poetry community is solicited by eager journalists who want to know whether poetry as an art form is making a comeback. But if you ask Steven J Fowler, an English poet and founder of the European Poetry Festival in the UK, the question is moot. “There's an article written every six months by a journalist saying poetry is coming back,” Stephen J Fowler tells Euronews Culture. “But there's no context about where it went.” For Fowler, poetry is an endless recurrence, making its way up and down and back again. But he will allow that European poetry is currently experiencing an ...
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Oscar and Cesar award-nominee films are set to be screened at the 14th edition of the Francophone Film Days in Budapest. The film festival aims to show the year's best French-speaking films, among them titles like The Three Musketeers: Milady. Participants will be able to meet the directors and actors of several of the 25 films expected to screen in the Hungarian capital. "The French language, it is something that so many people across the world have in common," Claire Legras, Ambassador of France in Budapest, said. "So it is really a language with proud history, a language for today and a lan...
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What is the accent you’re most attracted to? A gorgeous Irish lilt? A rakish Spanish inflexion? The King’s English, perhaps? Well, according to language learning platform Babbel, it’s official: French is no longer the world's sexiest accent. That bold statement will come as a disappointment to many, especially since Babbel previously polled more than 15,000 people in 2017, a group who named French the “sexiest accent”. So, who has dethroned la belle langue française? Well, 6,000 people from the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Germany, as well as the US, were asked to rate which languages are perc...
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Every year, the Benidorm Fest is held to find Spain’s Eurovision entry, and millions tune in. Eight acts perform in the final and are selected via a series of votes, including a jury and televoting by viewers at home. The winner then represents Spain at that year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which is being held in the Swedish city of Malmö. This year, the Spanish dance electro pop group Nebulossa emerged victorious and will perform their hit ‘Zorra’ on 11 May at Eurovision. So far, so scripted... Except that the song seems to have divided Spanish society, with many clutching their pearls in dism...
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