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Updates and resources on/in individual languages the world over
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Confs: Language Acquisition/Netherlands » Applied Linguistics ...

Confs: Language Acquisition/Netherlands. Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research Short Title: EMLAR IX. Date: 30-Jan-2013 – 01-Feb-2013. Location: Utrecht, Netherlands Contact: Sergio Baauw Contact ...
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The Berkeley Science Review » The foreign language of science: a ...

The Berkeley Science Review » The foreign language of science: a ... | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
A trip to Brazil makes Adam think on the foreign language all scientists share.
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Gaping differences on language between region's French and English: study - Ottawa Citizen

Gaping differences on language between region's French and English: study - Ottawa Citizen | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
Gaping differences on language between region's French and English: studyOttawa CitizenFrancophones and anglophones may live cheek-by-jowl in the National Capital Region, but they diverge dramatically when it comes to their views about language,...
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Mandarin Chinese becoming first choice as second language - Denver Post

Mandarin Chinese becoming first choice as second language - Denver Post | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
Mandarin Chinese becoming first choice as second languageDenver PostFifth-grader Lucy Miller, 11, works on speaking Mandarin Chinese during class at Erie Elementary School.
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Signs you're failing your interview

Signs you're failing your interview | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
You may already know that interviewers pick up on body language and may even base hiring decisions on it to some extent. But nonverbal communication goes both ways.
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Djibouti language school graduates 80 during ceremony - SomalilandPress

Djibouti language school graduates 80 during ceremony - SomalilandPress | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
SomalilandPressDjibouti language school graduates 80 during ceremonySomalilandPressOctober 21, 2012 · 363230...
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Polyglot Wonziacki Explains Language Gift - RIA Novosti

Polyglot Wonziacki Explains Language Gift - RIA Novosti | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
Polyglot Wonziacki Explains Language GiftRIA NovostiDuring her week in Moscow, the Dane has often thanked her fans with several sentences of well-accented Russian, answered dozens of Russian-language questions in English without waiting for translation...
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Parnell appoints five to Alaska Native Language Council - Alaska Dispatch

Parnell appoints five to Alaska Native Language Council - Alaska Dispatch | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
Parnell appoints five to Alaska Native Language CouncilAlaska DispatchGov. Sean Parnell has appointed five Alaskans to the newly formed Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council (ANLPAC).
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Where does language come from?

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How do we understand what words really mean? New science suggests we make meaning by creating mental simulations (Where does language come from?
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Language offers rare insight into ancient Egyptians - Chicago Tribune

Language offers rare insight into ancient Egyptians - Chicago Tribune | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
Chicago TribuneLanguage offers rare insight into ancient EgyptiansChicago TribuneThe language these Egyptians used from about 700 B.C. to A.D.
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Language-learning tool Busuu gains $5M and a boardmember from LastMinute ... - VentureBeat

Language-learning tool Busuu gains $5M and a boardmember from LastMinute ... - VentureBeat | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
VentureBeatLanguage-learning tool Busuu gains $5M and a boardmember from LastMinute ...VentureBeatBusuu, a startup with a free tool for you to master a new language, has pulled in about $5 million in its first round funding.
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Survey finds gaping differences on language between French and English ... - Ottawa Citizen

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Survey finds gaping differences on language between French and English ...Ottawa CitizenThe Montreal think tank, which focuses on issues of identity, used a web panel in July to sample the views of 350 anglophones and 100 francophones in Ottawa and...
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Patois

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There is a controversy brewing in Jamaica. The Bible Society is translating the Bible for the first time into Patois, the Creole language of Jamaica. This is welcomed by some and opposed by others.
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SDL Empowers SAE to Simultaneously Launch its Website in Eight Languages - MarketWatch (press release)

SDL Empowers SAE to Simultaneously Launch its Website in Eight LanguagesMarketWatch (press release)SDL's in-country language teams localized SAE's website into Russian, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and...
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What happens when a language dies? « American Councils For ...

For one thing, there is the complex matter of why an indigenous community might choose to abandon its mother tongue for English (or Spanish or French or Portuguese, as the case may be). We can't presume to know the ...
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Online dictionary

Online dictionary | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
Online dictionary. Almost all languages available, millions of translations (We specialize in Swahili and Other African languages.
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How to speak South African - The Apricity Forum: A European Cultural Community

How to speak South African - The Apricity Forum: A European Cultural Community | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
How to speak South African South Africa (How to speak South African: Even with 11 official languages - the second-largest http://t.co/bHN6TXR9...)...
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Opinion: Extinction of local languages | Network9ja

“Many more have died out with the passing of time and peoples”, he added, Explaining further: “Of the so-called mother-tongue languages, over one billion people have Chinese as their mother tongue, although Chinese is ...
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Grimbergen's Unspoken Languages - New York Times

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Grimbergen's Unspoken LanguagesNew York TimesGRIMBERGEN, BELGIUM — As with most Flemish towns, in Grimbergen speaking Dutch has been made compulsory in official buildings by a royal decree dating from July 18, 1966.
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Dead Languages: Lost in Translation - Books - Obit-Mag.com

Dead Languages: Lost in Translation - Books - Obit-Mag.com | The World of Indigenous Languages | Scoop.it
The subject of language death is as fascinating as it is fraught with controversy. (Why does an indigenous community choose to abandon its mother tongue for English ?
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