Languages

Digital Fire: A Manifesto

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Digital Age, World History, Languages, Society, Manifesto, Technology, Culture, Books News
Russell C. Smith

If you are alive, engaged, alert, ready with a spark inside -- you're open to the idea of reinvention happening on a global scale. Welcome, we've been expecting you.

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Lost and Gained In Translation

Bess Rowen | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Theatre, Theater, Arts News, Translation, Chinglish, Chinglish Broadway, Chinglish Review, Languages, Foreign Languages, Arts News
Bess Rowen

Just like the characters in Chinglish, we all try to communicate with each other, even when it is "sleepy" (one character's substitution for "tiring").

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Learning The Lingo: The 5 Hardest Languages To Master

Ben Colclough | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Travel, Languages, Learning a Language, Travel Tips, Polish, Navajo, Hungarian, Travel Blogs, Second Languages, Mandarin, Travel News
Ben Colclough

What makes Tuyuca so unique is its use of evidentiality: Each verb must contain a suffix that describes how the speaker knows the information they are stating.

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WATCH: The World's Sexiest Accents

Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Sexy Accents, Video, Gerard Butler, Worlds Sexiest Accents, Travel News, Slidepollajax, Sexiest Accents in the World 2011, Sexiest Accents, Sexiest Accent in the World 2011, Languages, Sexy, Gotta See This, Travel News

Irish brogue, sultry Spanish, sun-splashed Australian or sizzling Brazilian Portuguese, some languages are downright sexy. Those particular ways o...

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What Is This Yorkshire Dialect Anyways?

Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dialect, Anne Hathaway Yorkshire Accent, Anne Hathaway British Accent, Accents, North Yorkshire, Languages, Film, Anne Hathaway, British Accent, Anne Hathaway Accent, Culture News

The righteous fury Anne Hathaway unleashed when she attempted a Yorkshire accent in "One Day" has us asking the obvious journalistic question -- what ...

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Your Foreign Language Skills Aren't Perfect? Lighten Up.

Lev Raphael | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Foreign Travel, Travel Abroad, Germany, Berlin, Foreign Language, Holiday Travel, Travel, Languages, Summer Holidays, Summer Travel, Travel Tips, Holiday Travel Tips, Travel News
Lev Raphael

Nobody's going to test you over there. The key thing is, can you communicate?

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Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge

K. David Harrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human History, Language, Knowledge, Languages, Endangered Languages, Extinct Languages, World News
K. David Harrison

While the top of the economic pyramid may be dominated by a few players, the knowledge pyramid is inversely skewed, with just 0.2% of the world's population possessing a full 80% of our languages, and the vast knowledge they encode.

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Census Bureau Survey Draws Attention to Need for More Proactive Multicultural Approach

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: French, Washington, West Coast, Immigration, Thailand, Arabic, Denver, Farsi, Limited English Proficient, Chicago, American Community Survey, East Coast, u.s. Census Bureau, Korean, Swahili, Hispanic, Spanish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Newborns, East Africa, Survey, Languages, Syracuse, Interpretation, Mandarin, Language, Burma, Lep, Legal Immigration, Immigrant, Census Bureau, D.C., Northern Virginia, Oromo, Amharic, Cantonese, Politics News
Louis Provenzano

The release this past week of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) makes it clear that America's ethnic makeup is changing much quicker...

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What Language Do You Dream In?

Dorian de Wind | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ecuador, Education, French, Dreams, Curacao, Spanish Language, Multilingual, The Netherlands, German, Dutch Language, Languages, Papiamento, Healthy Living News
Dorian de Wind

It doesn't happen that often any more, but there are still times when my English-born wife gently, and sometimes not so gently, awakens me in the middle of the night to tell me that I have been talking in my sleep again in Spanish.

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Help, Homework

Juliet Linley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy, Homework, Languages, Schools, Parenting, Rome, Education News
Juliet Linley

Being around at homework time is also a way of bonding with your youngsters, isn't it? It gives you a chance to see how they cope and to follow their progress. No?

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Why is Creole a Pariah?

Dyane Jean François | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Languages, Haitian Creole, Rene Preval, Creole, Haiti, World News
Dyane Jean François

To use French in an emergency situation in Haiti is like shouting exit instructions in English during a fire in a Georgia plant where 90 percent of the workers speak Spanish.

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