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Symposium successful kick-off new academic year
The language of a country may impact its fertility rates. A question asked in the European parliament in English, might be replied to in French, and commented on in German. These are…
The graduation of our new Multilingualism experts
On August 26 twelve students officially graduated from the MA Multilingualism during a celebratory ceremony at the Gysbert Japicx room in the historical library Tresoar in Leeuwarden, where the majority of our…
Experiencing the diversity of modern society
“The MA Multilingualism enables me to work in a broader field and with an international perspective. As a speech therapist, I chose the MA Multilingualism to specialize in multilingual language acquisition and…
Google Translate and Frisian
In our time of globalisation and digitisation digital visibilty has become one of the most important preconditions for (minority) language survival. The most salient aspect of this visibility is machine translation, a…
Matching/speed-dating M&M
On June 23 highschool students from all over the Netherlands came to the university of Groningen for the annual ‘matching’ day. Matching is a kind of ‘speed-dating’. Some twelve students who showed…
When Frisians dominated the North Sea
Among historical linguists the Frisian language is well known as the ‘nearest cousin of English’. Old English and Old Frisian more or less have the same roots which reach back to the…
Creating a multi-media M&M experience!
How do you effectively market a new educational programme to national and international students? In the past couple of months, six groups of students of Crossmedia communication at the Hanze university for…
