Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during Pride Month.
March is Women’s History Month and this month, we focus in particular on the women music-makers and lyricists of the global stage, and how they’ve used their instruments and voices to provide comfort, evoke compassion, create community and provoke thought (and action!) in a multitude of ways.
In the days following heated climate talks at the COP26, we continue with the second of this two-part series with a few notable good reads that draw attention to the urgency of climate action, and in particular, the need to listen to those voices that are disproportionately impacted by climate change.
As climate talks at the COP26 wind down, here are a few notable good reads from the month that draw attention to the urgency of climate action and growing concern about the heavy toll that climate anxiety and uncertain futures is having on global youth.
This week, the WorldView Blog takes a deep dive into language and sports, from polyglot tennis pros to hockey commentary in Punjabi.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during the very first National Arab American Heritage Month.
Just a year ago, we reached a pivotal point of awareness that a global pandemic had taken hold. People around the world began to acknowledge that their ways of learning, working and living would be fundamentally altered. We offer the following good reads this month that provide perspective on the impact of COVID-19 in a handful of ways that touch the mission of Concordia Language Villages, from how the pandemic has shaped the experience of a generation to its profound and ongoing...
Our good read for the month of February is an article by Birgitte Lange, Secretary General of Save the Children Norway. She emphasizes that today’s courageous leaders must advocate for those who are most in need of help, even when that advocacy is hard or fraught with challenge.
Here are good reads from around the globe that caught our attention during the month of January. Conversation with The Little Prince. Capturing the spirit of the International Day of Education on Monday, January 25, UNESCO and partners spearheaded the Learning Planet Festival to celebrate learning in all contexts and share innovations that fulfil the potential of every learner, no matter what their circumstances. Watch and read in their languages the...
As we begin a new year of the WorldView Blog, we take a look back at some of our 2020 posts to highlight a handful that span the range of issues and events that provoked thoughts and promoted commentary in this past year.
Pluralism, joy in adversity, and all the cool things languages can do: here are good reads from around the globe that caught our attention during the month of November.
All around the world, purple means democracy. This week’s Good Reads looks at voting throughout history and around the globe—and how we might cast our ballots in the future.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during the month of September. Imagine for one minute what a better future would look like. Greta Thunberg, Pope Francis and others say now is the time to talk about the future we want. Sign Languages Are For Everyone. 72 million people around the world are deaf. They rely on around 300 different sign languages. Wednesday was International Day of Sign Languages. It offers an opportunity to...
Here are some good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during the month of August.
Here are good reads from around the web that have caught our attention during the month of July. 5 ways to help teens feel seen and heard in an uncertain time. The past few months have been exhausting. Young people may need help coping in the face of so much uncertainty. Reclaiming Kumbaya. The African American spiritual Kumbaya is one of the most easily recognizable American folk songs, sung by people around the world. Many people equate it with community gathered...
Here are this month’s Good Reads on how parents and children can learn about, talk about, and combat racism.
Here are some good reads from around the globe to brighten up our “Home Sweet World.”
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during the month of March.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during the month of January. Freedom and Loss: Lessons from Beethoven. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most consequential composers of all time, who wrote his most influential works when he was completely deaf. Arthur C. Brooks tells us how we can all learn from Beethoven, in this opinion piece from the December 13 edition of the Washington...
As we look back on 2019, the Concordia Language Villages group directors recall the WorldView blog posts that have left a lasting impression.
November is a time of celebrating the bounty of the year. In much of the world, it is also a time of reflection. Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention. The Circle of Thanks. Fourteen poems with themes of thanksgiving and appreciation of nature, based in part on traditional Native American songs and prayers. Stone Soup. Three strangers, hungry and tired, pass through a war-torn village. Embittered and suspicious from the war, the people hide their...
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during the month of October.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during the month of August. How Detained Children Are Treated Around the World. How does the ongoing crisis on the U.S. southern border fit into a broader international and historical context? Michael Garcia Bochenek, senior counsel to the Children’s Rights division of Human Rights Watch, discusses what he has learned from seeing detained children abroad. A Summer Camp on the Border,...
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during the month of July.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention in the month of April.
Here are good reads from around the globe that caught our attention during the month of March. Is Computer Code a Foreign Language? No, and high schools shouldn’t treat it like one, says Michael Egginton, a professor at Johns Hopkins University. A Danish word the world needs to combat stress: Pyt. Danes are some of the happiest people in the world, and they also happen to have a lot of cool words for ways to be happy. You may have heard about...
Here are some good reads . . . or, rather, good listens . . . that have caught our attention for the month of February.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention in the month of January. Maya Angelou’s Human Family. As we start 2019, take time to listen: ‘We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.’ A family menu built on appreciation, not appropriation. Food is the window into a culture. Food writer Jamie Schler tells how she came to appreciate the deeper cultural context for the meals she makes, serves, and eats. A dish is more than the sum of...
Here are some good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention in the month of November.
Here are some good reads, two “good looks,” and a “good listen” from around the globe that have caught our attention in the month of October.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention in the month of September.
Here are some good reads that have caught our attention during the month of August. Finding It Hard to Focus? Maybe It’s Not Your Fault. The rise of the ‘attention economy’ may be the defining social struggle of our times. This Is Your Brain on Nature. When we get closer to nature—be it untouched wilderness or a backyard tree—we do our overstressed brains a favor. What Is the Future of English in the United States? Similar to the UK and...
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention in the month of July.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention for the month of June. The FIFA World Cup starts this week. Held every 4 years, it is the world’s most popular sporting event with viewership numbers that exceed those of the Olympics. What do people around the world call “the beautiful game”? Is it soccer, football, or something else? The answer can be found on this brilliant language map. Do you prefer board games over ball games? In "The...
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention as we’ve explored community-based learning in the month of May.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention as we’ve focused on language and STEM in the month of April.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention as we begin our focus on Global Career Path for the month of March.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention during our focus on courage for the month of January.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention for the month of November.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention. Still I Rise Maya Angelou’s electrifying poem “Still I Rise," written nearly 40 years ago, feels absolutely current, somehow prescient given the divisions and challenges that abound. Angelou’s defiant optimism remains a beacon for agents of social change everywhere. This video, which showcases the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, is a celebration of that optimism, and a call to...
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention for the month of September.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention this month. How Exercise Can Help You Learn a New Language A new study reports that working out during a language class amplifies people’s ability to memorize, retain and understand new vocabulary. The findings provide more evidence that to engage our minds, we should move our bodies. In recent years, a wealth of studies in both animals and people have shown that we learn differently if we also...
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention for the month of June.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention this month. You Can Still Remember a Foreign Language Even if You Think it’s Forever Forgotten That's the conclusion of an international team of Dutch and Korean researchers. In a study for the journal Royal Society Open Science, they found that the earliest traces of a language can stay with us well into adulthood even if today we can no longer understand, let alone speak the language....
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention this month.
February 21st is the United Nation’s International Mother Language Day and this year’s theme is the importance of multilingual education in all countries around the globe. In that spirit, we offer good reads on this topic that have caught our attention this month.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention.
The White Helmets of Syria. Syria’s White Helmets are ordinary people who risk their own well-being every day to save lives in the rubble of cities like Aleppo. Read Jared Malsin’s excellent profile in TIME.
Changing The World - Poem by Frederick J.B. Moore II. We are a language program, and poetry is magical language. So what does poetry tell us about our mission?
How many Swiss regularly use at least four languages? You’d be surprised. Rise to the challenge - join our Swiss Week!
Positive Peace - What attitudes, institutions and structures create and sustain peaceful societies? Read the 2016 Positive Peace report
Learn new languages to get ahead. Is it important for a scientist to learn foreign languages? Yes, says Alexander Birbrair, a Russian Israeli who grew up in Brazil and lived in Spain. ‘‘What about English, you ask? In fact, I didn’t learn a word of it until I was 24.’‘
Arabic calligraphy: from language to modern art. Calligraphy merges the boundaries between language and art. Read how Arabic calligrapher Mohamed Abido showcased the power of his art to challenge societal conventions—from Egypt’s Daily News.
The Learning Generation. Investing in education for a changing world. The Prime Minister of Norway, the Presidents of Malawi, Indonesia, and Chile, and the Director-General of UNESCO convened a commission to reinvigorate the case for investing in education and to chart a path for investment to develop the potential of all of the world’s young people. Read the Commission’s report, chaired by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
4 reasons to learn a new language. English is fast becoming the world’s universal language, so why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue. It’s a good listen.
Here are good reads from around the globe that have caught our attention.
Meklit: Bringing the Sounds of the World to Her Melodies written by Taylor Mayol. The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds. Meklit Hadero combines folk, jazz and East African influences to create a sound she calls Ethio-jazz. But she also draws on the sounds of the everyday to create something unique.
The New York Times travel section recently featured Concordia Language Villages in its article, “Making Language Immersion Fun for Kids.”
"Go West, Young People! And East!" In a recent opinion column in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof encourages Americans to study abroad. He cites both statistics about study abroad as well as his own travel and study over the years. “The experiences changed me by opening my eyes to human needs,” Kristof asserts, creating a perspective that he argues would be helpful for politicians and citizens of any country but sorely needed here in the United States. Read...
Recently, a villager parent and columnist for the Pioneer Press (Minn.) wrote an intriguing column about President Barack Obama’s controversial nominee for the U.S. ambassadorship to Norway, George Tsunis, and identifies how a culturally immersive environment could serve him well,given what she calls recent cultural “flubs.”
