It is estimated that 40% of the world’s population lack the opportunity to be educated in their own language. In Colours of the Alphabet we get an insight into the challenges this poses as we follow a group of first graders in Zambia – a country with 72 local languages where education is primarily offered in English.
The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.
In the small community of Älvdalen in northern Dalarna, Sweden, the unique language Elfdalian (Älvda...
They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ......
The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the ro...
In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the ci...
There are about 250 people with a unique ancestry. Livonians – one of the smallest and most endanger...
For some time now, The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language is at the center of tough discuss...
Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts ...
A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music...
The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its au...
Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the word...
How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switze...
The world's largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56...
What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of you...
How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s hea...
“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the...
There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost with...
Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are mov...
For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, fra...