With a clear conflict emerging in the Guardian's poll between young people's interest in languages and a sense that their studies are not matching their aspirations, it remains to be seen whether the reforms can rescue language study in the UK from terminal decline.
Indeed in the past couple of decades non-Indigenous Australia have cottoned on to the importance of preserving and rescuing the languages of first nations people, and we are in the midst of a resurgence in appreciation, he says.
A linguistics professor at the University of New Mexico, she has devoted her life to rescuing dying languages.
Vi Hilbert, a member of the Skagit Tribe, managed to rescue the language Lushootseed from oblivion before she died, publishing dictionaries and collections of stories.
The goal of the exhibit is to explore the ongoing debate over what constitutes "standard English," and the attempts over the years to rescue the language from corruption by the masses.
Can ab initio rescue languages?
In Puccini music smothers language, helpfully rescuing us from a lot of execrable melodrama.
Political activism has been a catalyst in nearly every narrative of a language rescued from the brink.
Many critics credit him with having rescued his national language from the pall of linguistic abuse by the Nazis — an endeavor he has described as the "duty to take the goose step out of German".
McPhee's style rests on images like that, the golden detail rescued in unfussy language, although sometimes he'll land an unexpected, even eccentric word choice – the "histrionisms" of Dr Graebner's dentist patter – like a drop-shot or slice.
