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'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live
The world wide web took an historic step forward today as the first non-Latin web addresses went live, according to the BBC. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to...
READ MORE | 6 May 2010
Phonetics: The Sounds of English, German and Spanish
Phonetics lie at the heart of good pronunciation of a language. A top-notch web site from University of Iowa uses Flash in the form of animated articulatory diagrams to show how the consonents and vow...
READ MORE | 31 Mar 2010
Grow Story Grow: a storytelling website for learning languages
Interesting blog post by a primary school teacher about her experiences using Grow Story Grow, a storytelling website for learning languages. This new service uses stories which start off very simply...
READ MORE | 29 Mar 2010
Heart of Louisiana: The Chitimacha's lost language
Heartwarming story from Louisiana on the recovery and revivial of an extinct Native American language, Chitimacha. The Fox 8 article makes it clear just how profoundly important language is to a sense...
READ MORE | 16 Mar 2010
National conference aims to boost military language training
Improving language and cultural awareness in the U.S. armed forces is the focus of a national conference hosted by Arizona State University March 4-5, according to a press release on the University's...
READ MORE | 6 Mar 2010
Foreign language skills make jobseekers more employable during recession
According to the findings of poll of 500 UK employers commissioned by CILT, languages came second only to IT in a list of desirable skills for job candidates. The report findings, as covered by Person...
READ MORE | 5 Mar 2010
Modern languages degrees 'could die out within 20 years'
Warning that the study of modern languages could die out within the next 20 years according to leading academics as reported in the Sunday Telegraph. There is a real concern that the UK government fav...
READ MORE | 1 Mar 2010
Every Language is an Old-Growth Forest of the Mind
Thoughtful talk at TED by Wade Davis on Endangered languages and what we all lose when an indigenous language disappears. An eloquent statement of the fact that a slide to monolingualism will lead to...
READ MORE | 20 Feb 2010