English Language

While 85 percent of people feel that English is critical for work and more than 60 percent use English on a weekly basis, only a quarter feel confident across all four skills of reading, listening, writing, and speaking English in the workplace.

Wanted: New definitions of old words

Satirical dictionaries by Gustave Flaubert and Ambrose Bierce show how words can become detached from their meanings.

Sridhar Vembu says Zoho employees don't need to be fluent in English for most jobs

Sridhar Vembu said, 'We can only make progress when we get rid of that English obsession.'

Italy wants to ban English language. Violators to be fined upto Rs 90 lakh

The proposed law would also focus on pronunciation which could mean that saying 'bru-shetta' instead of 'bru-sketta' could be a punishable offense even for non-Italians.

Open English acquires India's mobile English-language learning platform Enguru

Open English currently has a widespread audience in Latin America due to their 24/7 live classes which are taught by Native-speaking teachers, educating about 1.5 million students.

"The tyranny of the majority is not about demographics alone": Kaushik Roy

'Alphabetica: A Satire on Majoritarianism' by Roy Phoenix launched in Kolkata's Oxford Book Store on Friday, November 26.

Does korrect speling matter?

British universities are being told not to deduct marks for spelling mistakes and only judge students on ideas and knowledge of the subject. Is the ability to spell important?

Soon, spoken English classes in Tripura government schools for better career prospects

Four thousand students from the district will get a chance to attend spoken English classes for six months. Eighty percent of the students will come from Bengali (vernacular) medium schools, while the rest will be from English medium schools.

Uber in legal bid to block new London taxi rules

The move comes ahead of measures to be introduced on October 1 by the regional transport authority, Transport for London (TfL), that will tighten regulation of the private hire industry in the British capital.

English language may be dropped by EU after Brexit

The English language may be one of the casualties of Brexit as it emerged that no state other than the UK has registered it as a primary language among the 28 countries within the European Union

Oxford Dictionaries word of the year is…

The frequency of the word selfie in the English language has risen some 17,000 percent from a year ago, research conducted by Oxford Dictionaries editors shows.

US Spelling Bee winner to be announced on Thursday

The hopefuls were winnowed from 281 contestants aged 8 to 14 from across the United States and other countries. They advanced after two rounds of onstage spelling and, for the first time since the contest started in 1927, a computerized test that included vocabulary questions.