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…
