Technically, Morocco only has two official languages: Arabic and Amazigh, also known as Berber. Morocco’s geographic relevance as a connecting point between Europe, Africa and the Americas, coupled ...
RABAT (Reuters) - When Hassna Amzil's parents speak their original language of Amazigh, she struggles to follow as part of a generation whose families moved from Morocco's mountains to its ...
In some countries, school systems strive to produce bilingual students. In Morocco, students are now expected to be quadrilingual, and it is causing friction among the country’s conservative and ...
As a child, Mohammed Ait Amghar, a shopkeeper from the Azilal region in Morocco, could only speak his native language, Amazigh. In 1982, when he was 8 years old, he felt unwell in class, his teacher ...
Long the language of reference in Morocco, French appears to be gradually losing ground to English, the international ...
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's economy is getting lost in translation. With so many students dropping out of university because they don't speak French, the government has proposed reintroducing it as ...
According to a study commissioned by the British Council, 40% of young Moroccans feel that it is more important to learn English than French, compared to only 10% who think otherwise. This figure will ...
The Assinsg language replaces spoken words with sharp whistles that can carry for nearly three kilometres (two miles) in the mountains, according to researchers — Abdel Majid BZIOUAT In Morocco's High ...
This article is written by Mohammed Udern. It is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. As a child, ...