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Geplaatst op 23 februari 2012 (Tekstbureau, teksttalenten) Alex Rawlings spreekt elf talen vloeiend. De 20-jarige Brit leert moeiteloos nieuwe talen en schakelt probleemloos over van de ene naar de andere taal. Ook het Nederlands beheerst hij. In het onderstaande filmpje legt Alex aan een filmcrew van de BBC in diverse talen (waaronder Nederlands) uit hoe hij al die talen...

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... ou : Mais où est passée Lili Marleen ? 3 février 2012 A en croire les médias, nous vivrions quasiment sous occupation allemande... Les Guignols s'en donnent à cœur joie en maltraitant cette pauvre chancelière, dont personne ne prononce pourtant le prénom correctement, la nommant "Andjéla", comme s'il...

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Junge Schweden finden Deutsch öde - und sind damit nicht allein. Immer mehr Schüler in Europa lernen lieber andere Fremdsprachen. Goethe-Institut und Co. forcieren zwar das Marketing, doch eine Europakarte zeigt: Unsere Nachbarn werden zu Deutschmuffeln. Weiterlesen...

Source: Multilingual Living by contributor on February 6, 2012 · 0 comments Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele and his daughter Livia By Clo Originally published in Multilingual Living Magazine In my constant quest of knowledge to better understand the different and complex facets of multilingualism, I stumbled across a very informational paper by Dr. Jean-Marc...

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23/01/2012

Katja Bobyleva is een Russische. Haar vriend Sylvain Kragbe komt uit Ivoorkust. Zij spreekt Russisch met de kinderen, hij Frans. Met elkaar spreken ze Nederlands.

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David Lienemann for The New York Times In a recent essay in The Times, Lawrence Summers, the former president of Harvard University, wrote about preparing American students for the future. In the essay, he said that international experience was essential, arguing that English’s emergence as the global language makes the investment in other languages less essential....

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Published January 14th Michael Erard is the author of the book "Babel no more" See : The gift of tongues (The Economist) and The Art of Mastering Many Tongues (NY Times) AMERICANS are often told that in today’s globalized world, we are at a competitive disadvantage because of our lazy monolingualism. “For too long, Americans have relied on other...

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What makes some people learn language after language? Dec 31st 2011 Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners. By Michael Erard. Free Press; 306 pages; $25.99. Buy from Amazon.com 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...

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By PETER CONSTANTINE Published: January 20, 2012 Among the most surprising qualities of “Babel No More,” Michael Erard’s globe-trekking adventure in search of the world’s virtuosos of language learning, is that a book dealing with language acquisition and polyglot linguistics can be so gripping. But indeed it is — part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual...

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dinsdag, 10 januari 2012 Paramaribo - Negentig procent van de Surinamers spreekt thuis twee talen en bijna de helft zelfs drie of meer. Dat blijkt uit een enquête die de Nederlandse Taalunie publiceert in Taalpeil 2011, de jaarlijkse krant over het Nederlands. In Nederland en Vlaanderen is meertaligheid nog niet tot het dagelijkse leven van iedereen doorgedrongen, blijkt...

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Source:  Plurilingualism at the University of Almería We already know how language learning is in Spain and specially, at the University of Almería…But would you like to find out how it is in other countries? Come and Discover it with us! This week Hungary, by Réka Marincsak, Team member of the Plurilingualism Promotion Plan. Read more......

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Huffington Post, January 12 2012 By Nataly Kelly Admit it. At one point or another, the words "Learn a new language," have appeared on your list of New Year's Resolutions. Like most resolutions made with the best of intentions, this one frequently fizzles out well before the year comes to an end. But speaking multiple languages is not uncommon -- it's the normal...

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