A polyglot is someone with a high degree of proficiency in several languages. (A bilingual person can speak two languages fluently, a trilingualhyperpolyglot.) three. One who can speak six or more languages fluently is known as a The following list must be seen as anecdotal. Calculations as to "how many" languages anyone speaks is impossible for several reasons. Read...
Loretta Scott '10 is currently working in NYC in marketing/business development. She started a Youtube series called "The Difficulties of Japanese" in 2007, and was eventually contacted by YesJapan Corporation, which provides real-world and online courses for Japanese langauge learning. She's now contracted as a video producer, and creates youtube-style education videos for...
What is multilingualism? We will tell you. - Short sentences, oppinions about the multilingualism, in Europe and in the world. Facts and benefits, why it is important to speak languages, even more language. Lot of my friends helped me to do this short movie, many thanks for participating. The spoken languages in this movie: Hungarian, Slovakian, German, Finnish, Turkish, Danish,...
Today we have a guest post from Vilma Bačkiūtė. Vilma is Partnerships and Projects Manager for British Council Lithuania.
To quote professor Ted Cantle, “This is a new era of mass migration, of visible communities and an era of super-diversity”. Read the article...
On Call You And Yours we ask: Is it worthwhile learning another language? What are the biggest advantages of being multilingual and why do many of us struggle?
January 21, 2011 A few years ago I read Budapest: A Novel, by the renowned Brazilian musician Chico Buarque. The story of a man who falls in love with Magyar—and its proxy in the form of a seductive tutor, Kriska—the novel contains scant information about Budapest. But it is original in its depiction of a Brazilian who wants a new identity and to fashion it in a...
Source : Language Rich Europe, 20 May 2011
Stefanie Poulton moved to Brussels from North Wales in 2009. Today she works in British Council Brussels as PA to Regional Director EU. She shares her views about multilingualism and having become “Welsh Stef” in Brussels for our blog. Interview with Canan Marasligil. Read more...
8 mai 2011 Poussés par la crise économique et un chômage galopant, les Espagnols, traditionnels mauvais élèves en langues étrangères, se ruent sur les cours privés dans l'espoir d'améliorer leur niveau et de convaincre les employeurs. "Plus la crise est profonde, plus les gens ont le désir...
Sorry but I don't speak the lingo... Brits only have a basic grasp of foreign phrases By Daily Mail Reporter 20th April 2011 The average British tourist heading abroad this summer will speak less than ten key phrases of the native language, a study revealed today. Researchers polled 3,000 people who are travelling on foreign holidays this year on their ability to...
Tamazight, or Amazighe language, refers to the Berber languages, spoken in North Africa.
In Algeria, the teaching of this language, though promoted since 1980, seems to be losing momentum. El Watan tries to grasp the causes of this decline, based on the yearly assessment conducted by national authorities and activists of the Tamazight cause. Read more...
Les Pays-Bas, la Norvège et le Danemark possèdent le meilleur niveau en anglais parmi les pays dont il ne s'agit pas de la langue maternelle. L'étude montre que la Russie, la Turquie et l'Amérique du Sud sont à la traine. Les pays d'Asie s'en sortent dans l'ensemble assez mal, à l'exception de la Malaisie à la 9e...
Au Royaume-Uni, seule une petite élite sait encore manier la langue de Molière. Celle-ci a pourtant d’autres attraits que son simple usage en vacances, tempête un amoureux de la francophonie. Cliquer ici pour voir l'article (en accès restreint)...
Source : RTBF, lundi 14 février 2011
Dans un hôpital, patients et médecins ne parlent pas nécessairement la même langue. Cela peut poser problème lors du diagnostic. Certains hôpitaux font dès lors appel à des membres de leur personnel, pour traduire. Lire la suite...
De Taalkunde Olympiade is bedoeld voor leerlingen uit 4, 5 en 6 vwo die geïnteresseerd zijn in taal én logica. Je krijgt opgaven over de meest uiteenlopende oude en moderne talen en schriftsoorten. Kennis van de taal is niet nodig; als je het leuk vindt om met talen bezig te zijn en je houdt ook van wiskunde, dan maak je goede kans op een prijs. Om meer te weten...
In 2008 Ofsted published The changing landscape of languages: an evaluation of language learning 2004/2007. This report follows up achievements since then and examines the current challenges. Some aspects of language provision seen during this survey were better than in the schools visited during the previous survey. The primary schools in this survey were making good progress overall in...
Gargnano del Garda (Brescia) (Italia), del 6 al 8 de junio de 2011 Departamento de Estudios de Lengua y Literatura Comparadas de la Universidad de Milán; CIRSIL - Centro Interuniversitario Italiano de Investigación sobre la Historia de la Enseñanza de Idiomas Extranjeros; SIHFLES - Societé Internationale pour l'Histoire du Français Langue Étrangère ou Seconde; APHELLE: Associação...
Quelle: SprachenNetz, 17 November 2010 So viele erste Preise gab es noch nie: Im Finale des Bundeswettbewerbs Fremdsprachen ist an diesem Wochenende mit elf Siegern der beste Jahrgang in der Geschichte des Wettbewerbs angetreten. Zum Vergleich: Im letzten Jahr hatte es zwei Bundessieger gegeben, im vorletzten Jahr nur einen. Neben den 11 ersten Preisen wurden 15 zweite Preise, 10...
The aim of this blog is to discuss what it means to be multilingual. Go to the blog...
pour Le Monde.fr | 13.10.10 | 09h58 • Mis à jour le 13.10.10 | 16h51, par Martine Jacot Par quel miracle le nombre de francophones dans le monde est-il passé de quelque 200 millions de personnes en 2007 à 220 millions de personnes en 2010, d'après le dernier rapport de l'Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF),...
10.11.2008, Euranet În Lituania, multilingvismul este o realitate foarte concretă. Majoritatea lituanienilor vorbesc curent una sau două limbi străine, depăşind cu mult media pe plan european. Această situaţie este rezultatul unei istorii agitate, marcată de diverse ocupaţii, dar este de asemenea consecinţa unei...
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