Online courses for learning languages: the Frisian case
A ‘massive open online course’ (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance. MOOCs are an excellent way…
May 16, 2017Google 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…
July 1, 2015When 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…
June 11, 2015
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