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Critical period ahead for Irish language rights amid large gaps in State service provision – The Irish Times

Critical period ahead for Irish language rights amid large gaps in State service provision – The Irish Times
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Gaelic status quo will just mean more stagnation

Gaelic status quo will just mean more stagnation
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Army, Marine special operators fail to keep up with language training

The report flagged a lack of accountability, but special operations personnel said other training takes priority.

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Australia s chance to comment on language classifications | Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australia s chance to comment on language classifications | Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Frontiers | Views on Good English and Nordic Exceptionalism in Finland

In the Nordic countries, widespread proficiency in English is positioned as a positive and even critical component of overall global competitiveness and competence. Indeed, maps illustrating who speaks the “best” English in Europe show a swath across the Nordic countries, and the number of people in the Nordic countries claiming proficiency in English is only a few percentage points below those in places such as the UK and Ireland. At the same time, the Nordic countries are routinely listed as the “happiest,” the most egalitarian, the most classless, least corrupt, and an epicenter for so-called “tender values.” In recent years, there has been a spate of publications highlighting how Nordic exceptionalism carries with it some unfortunate downsides, including the possibility for people to ignore or fail to acknowledge issues such as racism, sexism, and other social inequalities because of the affordance: “But our society is equal.” There is a parallel in the use of Engli

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