Technically, 2025 was the year of the snake.

As you probably know, language learning takes time and effort. Some days you’ll only have 10 minutes to spare, but you can make those 10 minutes count with Learned Vocab refresh.

Here at Transparent Language, we believe in the value of every language, regardless of the number of speakers, the economic value, or otherwise. That’s why we offer 140+ languages in Transparent Language Online and continue to add new ones each year. 

For those interested in learning Asian languages, we currently offer courses and learning materials in 13 languages!

Never has a slogan been truer than for Nashville Public Library (NPL), where “books are only half the story.” This library goes beyond books, and beyond the walls that house them, with its extensive adult literacy program that supports immigrants and resettled refugees throughout the community.

You can probably guess the languages our library patrons learn most: English, Spanish, French. But recently… ASL!

Sometimes, when you look at the world, it can be easy to despair at the passage of time and the things we lose along the way. Luckily, there are those who make an effort to change the course of what seems to be an inevitability. With dedication, resourcefulness, and teamwork comes success. And so it is that four new courses have been created for endangered Alaskan languages.

Not sure where to begin in Transparent Language Online? Take a placement test!

More voices.

Guest Post by Dr. Bill Rivers, Executive Director for the Joint National Committee for Languages – National Council for Language and International Studies, and a leader in U.S. language policy.

According to the Center for American Progress, “more than one out of four of all children in the United States are from immigrant families, and in most cases these children speak a language other than English at home.”