The winner, also of the State Literary Award, Chandrarathna Bandara is testimony to the richness of our local literary ...

Sometimes travel gives you the funniest surprises ,like realizing dogs in Sri Lanka don’t speak English. During our stay, we ...

A non-Japanese-speaking first-time visitor used Apple’s new in-ear translation feature to connect with locals at bars, sushi ...

Guyana is famous for being the only English speaking country in South America but its residents actually code switch between Standard English and Guyanese Creole, which is often dismissed as “broken ...

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His compatriots know him as a novelist. But scholars say he must be acknowledged as a modernist intellectual, significant for ...

The Equal Rights Movement handed a letter to the President citing concerns that official disaster notices and government ...

Language gaps left Tamil-speaking communities dangerously unprepared as Cyclone Ditwah triggered deadly floods and landslides.

Learning to speak English confidently takes time. It won’t change overnight. It is just like a habit; you build it slowly. Many ask, “How to build an English-speaking habit in 30 days”? The answer is ...

Around one in three schoolchildren in Britain's 'asylum capital' do not speak English as their first language, data has shown. Scottish Government figures show 28.8 per cent of students in Glasgow ...

Nearly one in three children in a major UK city do not speak English as their first language, new statistics show. The city is home to more asylum seekers than any other local authority across the ...

On November 28, Sundaram Thevapalan (36) and his family had to wade through Colombo’s flood waters to find shelter. They received no alerts of 200 mm of rainfal ...