When you pay close attention to bilingual Londoners, something strange happens. A teenager from Tower Hamlets who speaks Bengali switches…
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After completing his doctorate at the University of Tokyo, Tatsuya Amano shares a story about attending his first international scientific…
In 2016, something truly bizarre occurred within Google’s translation system, and the majority of people still don’t fully understand what…
The fact that the most well-known voices in artificial intelligence—Siri, Alexa, and Cortana—arrived in the world devoid of faces, ancestry,…
A graduate student named Ivory Yang is teaching a machine to read a script that was previously passed between women…
On any given Friday, the staff at a small cocktail bar off Dean Street will switch between Portuguese, Spanish, Italian,…
The nation changed from being arguably the most linguistically homogeneous it had ever been—just 4.7% of its population was foreign-born,…
Waking up from a dream in which you were speaking a language you hardly know can be unsettling. Speaking it…
You’ll hear something most Londoners don’t notice if you walk into a nursery school in Tower Hamlets on any given…
There is a church at number 136 on Clerkenwell Road that doesn’t seem to belong in London. The facade is…