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1 in 8 people in the United States (13%, or 30 million) ages 12 or older have hearing loss in both ears, based on standard hearing examinations. Explore an app to get started on easy ways to learn a few signs, and grow your knowledge over time.
👉 Lingvano: This highly-rated app allows you to learn ASL in 10 minutes a day! Available on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store.
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A recent survey of 2,000 adults in the U.S. revealed that at the end of their lives, 31% would rather leave their mark through creativity than through intelligence (20%), wealth (14%) or humanitarian efforts (10%).
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Source: OnePoll Survey
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If you were to take the familiar map of the world (and its 200 or so nation-states) and overlay that with a map of languages, you might be surprised with what you'll see. The world contains a whopping 7,000 languages. And, at present, about half of all languages are spoken by communities of 10,000 or fewer.
The inspiration to preserve languages from extintion is a relatively new movement. In 1992, the linguist Michael Krauss warned that linguistics would “go down in history as the only science that presided obliviously over the disappearance of 90% of the very field to which it is dedicated”. This helped light the spark.
Inspired by the new push for biodiversity and the growing movement for Indigenous rights, a cohort of linguists and language activists vowed to use new technologies to record and preserve as much as possible of the world’s vanishing linguistic heritage. With 573 known languages that are extinct, work began.
7000 Languages is one of those organizations working with speakers to record and document languages. AND, the cool part - they've made (free) language libraries accessible online that help us all learn.
https://www.7000.org/languages
Source: The Guardian
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Many cultures around the world have created their own unique style to the ancient, 2,000-year-old art of paper cutting. Olympia, Washington artist Nikki McClure's paper cutting reflects the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.
Check-out her work: https://www.nikkimcclure.com/
📸: Nikki McClure
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Asian American and Hmong history is now cemented into the core curriculum in Wisconsin schools. K-12 public schools will now require it in an effort for students to learn the cultures and celebrate the people that make Wisconsin what it is.
📸: Center for American Progress
