Practice of modern languages
Conhecimento de línguas na UE
Indicador Europeu de Competência Linguística
inquérito sobre os conhecimentos dos estudantes nas duas línguas mais ensinadas na Europa
Inquérito do Eurobarómetro
inquérito sobre as competências linguísticas dos cidadãos europeus e a sua atitudes em relação à aprendizagem de línguas
As línguas em 2010 e além
as línguas no quadro estratégico para a cooperação europeia...
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Crescimento do Brasil leva estrangeiros a aprenderem português
Portalingua, 20/10/11
O crescimento da economia brasileira e a maior
presença de multinacionais no país aumentaram o interesse de
estrangeiros em aprender a língua portuguesa.
Enquanto europeus e americanos enfrentam altas taxas de desemprego e
risco de recessão, o Brasil se tornou o país da moda no exterior --e a
língua portuguesa...
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Serbe, croate, bosnien ou monténégrin : dans quelle langue écrivez-vous ?
Le Courrier des Balkans, 5 octobre 2011
Traduit par Jovana Papović
Publié dans la presse : 22 septembre 2011
Mise en ligne : mercredi 5 octobre 2011
Cette année, un nouveau scandale a éclaté : les
romans de Miljenko Jergović et Muharem Bazdulj ont été écartés de la
sélection pour le prestigieux...
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Plus grande diversité dans la seconde langue étrangère la plus couramment étudiée
Communiqué de presse de l'Union européenne
26 septembre 2011
Journée européenne des langues
En 2009, 95% des élèves du deuxième cycle de l'enseignement secondaire dans l'UE27 ont étudié l'anglais comme langue étrangère
Plus grande diversité dans la seconde langue étrangère la plus...
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Langues étrangères les plus couramment étudiées en 2009
Source : Union européenne, Communiqué de presse Rapid
STAT/11/138
Le 26 septembre 2011
Journée européenne des langues
En 2009, 95% des élèves du deuxième cycle de l'enseignement secondaire dans l'UE27 ont étudié l'anglais comme langue étrangère. Plus grande diversité dans la seconde...
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Language lessons in the classroom and pub (The Australian)
...
If you tell an Aussie mate you're learning Spanish, he'll say: "Cool."
Tell him you're learning Indonesian and he'll say: "Why? Weren't you
learning Spanish?". If I had my wits about me, I could point at my feet
and say: "Sepatu, Indonesian for shoe. Zapato, Spanish for shoe. They're fellow travellers, these languages, thanks to the Portuguese spice...
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Kirghizistan : Président pas parler langue pays
13.09.2011 | Courrier international
Les candidats à la présidence du
Kirghizistan parlent-ils kirghize ? Les 65 concurrents en lice pour la
présidentielle d’octobre doivent passer un examen de langue en direct à
la télévision. Au Kirghizistan, ancienne République soviétique, l’élite...
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Do you speak spanish ? (Sciences humaines.com)
Nicolas Journet
Nul ne conteste que la langue anglaise se soit hissée, au cours du
xxe siècle, à la première place parmi les langues internationales :
1,4 milliard d’hommes vit dans des pays dont c’est la langue officielle,
1,3 milliard la pratique comme langue seconde, et on estime qu’en l’an
2000, un autre...
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List of noted polyglots !
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...
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Multilingualism in six episodes through the eyes of a young girl learning japanese
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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Video - What is multilingualism ?
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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Government decisions and long-lasting effects
Posted on July 15, 2011 by Language Rich Blog
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...
Practice of modern languages
Call You and Yours: Foreign languages (BBC programme)
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?
Listen to the programme...
Practice of modern languages
Languaging (Ange Mlinko, The Nation)
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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Interview: Speaking Welsh, Living in Brussels
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...
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Espagne: les cours de langue en vogue (Le Figaro)
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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Language barrier: Brits abroad only know a handful of foreign phrases
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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El Watan warns on « collapse » of education in Amazighe language

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...
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Une étude montre que la Chine peine à maîtriser l'anglais
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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Le français à la peine chez les Anglais (Courrier International)
Practice of modern languages
Bruxelles: le personnel des hôpitaux joue les traducteurs
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...
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Taalkunde Olympiade (kennislink.nl)
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...
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Great Britain: Modern languages: achievement and challenge 2007/2010
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...
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Las mujeres y las lenguas extranjeras en la Europa moderna
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...
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