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Addressing language barrier in early grade learning

Nepal, June 13 -- Children learn best when education starts from the language they already know. For many children in Nepal, their first day of school is also their first exposure to Nepali as the ...
The Hechinger Report

Nepal says students have a right to learn in their native languages —but it still isn’t happening

Third grade students take turns reading lessons aloud to their classmates at Mangal Prasad Secondary School in Banke, Nepal. Credit: Amrita Jaisi for Global Press Journal Nepal. The Hechinger Report ...

Learning Hindi Reveals Urdu, Nepali, and Bengali—A Linguistic Map of the Indian Subcontinent

When you learn Indonesian, you start to "somehow understand" Tagalog or Malagasy. The same thing happens with Hindi.There is ...
Worldcrunch

Nepalese Classrooms, Where Languages Go To Die

Students in third grade at Mangal Prasad Secondary School in Banke take turns reading aloud to their classmates. Amrita Jaisi/Global Press Journal BANKE — English and health studies are 14-year-old ...