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Chinese is the new English
More students and job aspirants in city queue up to learn Chinese. Though numbers aren't big, the interest is spiking...See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Schools turn to Chinese language classes with help of Chinese government –...
By Susanna Capelouto, CNN Radio Listen to CNN Radio's podcast on learning Chinese in U.S. schools from Susanna Capelouto. (CNN) About 75 students at Hillsboro High School in Nashville, Tennessee,...
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The gift of tongues
CARDINAL MEZZOFANTI of Bologna was a secular saint. Though he never performed the kind of miracle needed to be officially canonised, his power was close to unearthly. Mezzofanti was said to speak 72...
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Secrets to Social Media Success in Foreign Languages | Social Media Today
There’s no doubt social media is a global phenomenen. Like “OK” and “Coca-Cola”, the words “Twitter” and “Facebook” are understood throughout the (computer-literate) world.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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Livemocha Launches Scholarship Program to Rebuild Language ...
SEATTLE, WA – (Marketwire – Jan 11, 2012) – Livemocha, the world's largest online language learning service, today announced the Livemocha Scholarship Program, which offers free and discounted foreign...
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Latinos, teach your children Spanish
by Eric Jude Cortes With the New Year upon us, and most of you making resolutions to lose weight, eat better, or read more of my articles, you should add one more resolution to your list: teach ...See...
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Are You a Hyperpolyglot? The Secrets of Language Superlearners | Healthland |...
When God put the kibosh on the Tower of Babel, 72 languages were said to have been created from the one that unified those hubristic humans.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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The World Has Changed: Foreign Languages Make a Huge Difference
If we want more Americans to be successful and to be able to compete in the global marketplace, we must teach them cross-cultural skills and more foreign languages earlier, not less later.See it on...
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Guest column: June Sochen ... Foreign languages in the U.S.
Do you speak more than one language?...See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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The Tube Languages of the world pictograph | Zara Rabinowicz
Want to know what languages they speak in other countries and what will come in most useful to you? This pretty tube language map helps you visualize countries like UK Tube zones.See it on Scoop.it,...
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How to create and share digital flash cards on your iPhone and iPad [App for...
Our challenge this week was to find an app that would allow my parents, who are taking a Spanish class together, to create flashcards of vocabulary that could be shared on two iPhones and one iPad.See...
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The Benefits of Multilingualism | Multilingual Living
By Michał B.Paradowski Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw Photo Credit: Anthony Kelley To have another language is to possess a...See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Using TransTalk for interviews in foreign languages
You come upon a scene at which you ascertain in part, from the two DBs on the pavement that some sort of crime has been committed.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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How did this man learn 11 languages?
Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings has won a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student, he explains how he became fluent in so many languages.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Why learn a foreign language? | Deseret News
"Hello, hello, hello, how are you?” are words to the first song I learned in English.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Why do we continue to isolate ourselves by only speaking English?
Will Hutton: Britain's future economic and political wellbeing is being hamstrung by our reluctance to learn foreign languages...See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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The Benefits of Bilingualism
Being bilingual makes you smarter and can have a profound effect on your brain.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Protecting the World's Endangered Languages
News and Analysis of Assyrian and Assyrian-related Issues Worldwide...See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Momentum Builds for Dual-Language Learning
Growing numbers of schools are offering dual-language classes, where teachers split instruction between English and a second language.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Neuroscience and the Bilingual Brain
Dr. Judy Willis (@judywillis on Twitter) is an authority on brain research as it relates to learning. She is a regular blogger at Edutopia. You can also find her online at RADteach.See it on Scoop.it,...
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Using social media as a language learning tool
Children now turn to social media by default.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Immersion Beats Classroom for Mastering a Foreign Tongue: Study - US News and...
Either way, the brain seems to consolidate new language over time, researchers find...See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Bilingual and struggling
A bilingual parent tries to keep a native tongue alive at home, a problem faced by many immigrants.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Face to face with a new language
Some language departments are having students Skype with their counterparts abroad.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Native Languages Go International
With one stroke of an official pen, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill giving life to teaching Native American languages that now, as world languages, can count for high school credit. See...
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Cajun French: Can dying language be saved?
Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Using social media as a language learning tool
Children now turn to social media by default.See it on Scoop.it, via World Languages
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Chatham French students win 'World Languages Podcast Competition'
Madame Dr. Joan Jensen, Chatham Middle School French teacher, would like to congratulate Keegan McManus and Conor Sullivan, two of her seventh grade French students, for winning First Runner-Up in NJ...
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