Department of Modern Languages at MSU Denver

This Intricate, 400-Year-Old Nahuatl Map of Mexico Is Now Available Online A rare, 400-year-old codex made by the Nahua indigenous people shows a map of Mexico at the time of first contact with Spanish conquistadors.

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What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem Translating a poem into another language—its content, its form, its tone, its nuance—is, as almost everyone who has done it knows, a difficult business. But it also has enormous rewards: for the tr…

89-Year-Old Japanese Grandma Discovers Photography, Can’t Stop Taking Hilarious Self-Portraits Now Most people think that technology is for young people, but nobody told Kimiko Nishimoto that. She's an 89-year-old Japanese grandma who's been snapping and editing her own pictures for the last 17 years, and as

German Flag The flag of Germany was adopted in its present form in 1919. It was readopted with the new constitution of 1949. It is a tricolour, made of three equal horizontal bands coloured black (top), red, and gold (bottom). There are several theories regarding the origins of the German flag color scheme and…

The Soviet Language Revolution The Soviet revolution in the Russian language was monumental.

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Why we should learn German | John le Carré To help make the European debate decent and civilised, it is now more important than ever to value the skills of the linguist