{"id":5325,"date":"2026-08-16T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:01:12","slug":"the-joy-and-vitality-of-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5325","title":{"rendered":"The joy and vitality of languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hepi.ac.uk\/2026\/08\/13\/the-joy-and-vitality-of-languages\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"The joy and vitality of languages - HEPI\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hepi.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/iStock-478438526.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.hepi.ac.uk<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">The joy and vitality of languages &#8211; HEPI<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">This blog was kindly authored by Fiona Devine (Manchester) and Jo Fox (Newcastle), on behalf of the N8 subgroup on Modern Languages. We are very familiar with the story that languages are in decline and share the well-founded concern about the emergence of regional cold spots across the country due to declining numbers of students [\u2026]<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educacion","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5326,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions\/5326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}