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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...

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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,...

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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... 

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...

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Source : Language Rich Europe, 20 May 2011

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...