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Are ugly fonts more memorable?
Fascinating interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme with Jonah Lehrer who has written in this month's Wired magazine on how ugly fonts, rather than making it more difficult for us to absorb and rem...
READ MORE | 13 Jan 2011
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Fun piece on the BBC web site on the hilarious Pardon My French web site dedicated to spoofs in French of famous English songs. The idea of the site is to have a light-hearted jibe...
READ MORE | 6 Jan 2011
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
Guy Duetscher's article on Does Your Language Shape How You Think? that appeared in The New York Times Magazine in August gets our vote for the best writing on language in 2010. In this fascinati...
READ MORE | 19 Dec 2010
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Do most languages need more space than English?
Fascinating Q & A post on the English Language and Usage web site that explodes some common misconceptions about the space efficiency of English on the page in relation to other popular languages....
READ MORE | 14 Oct 2010
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Babylonian, dead for millennia, now online
The sound of the ancient Babylonian language has been brought back to life thanks to Cambridge academic, Martin Worthington. His website speechisfire.com hosts some 30 audio files of this&nb...
READ MORE | 8 Oct 2010
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Sunday 26th of September 2010 marks the European Day of Languages. Set up by the Council of Europe in 2001, the idea of the European Day of Languages (EDL) is to show people across Europe how importan...
READ MORE | 26 Sep 2010
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Should British pupils give up studying French?
The aftermath of the decline of languages at GCSE continues with a story on the BBC News Magazine web site which explores some of the key reasons for this. Language learning expert Paul Noble, who tea...
READ MORE | 21 Sep 2010
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Thoughtful homage by Andrew Whittaker on his Speak the Culture blog to the great French film director, Claude Chabrol, who died on Sunday. Chabrol spearheaded the French New Wave in cinema and was ren...
READ MORE | 14 Sep 2010
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Michael Gove wants baccalaureate qualification for England
The new baccalaureate qualification proposed by the UK Education Secretary, Michael Gove, could be a positive initiative for foreign languages. According to the Guardian, The "English bac" would not r...
READ MORE | 9 Sep 2010
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GCSE results: Why we should mind our languages
Further to yesterday's article about the decline of languages as a subject at GCSE and A Level in the UK, another one in today's Telegraph which looks at the rationale for why languages are important...
READ MORE | 26 Aug 2010
