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Are Language Skills the Key to England's Future Success at the World Cup?
In yesterday's article from the BBC, England's fear of crossing borders, former England international, Chris Waddle asserts that if more English football players played abroad they would be more likel...
READ MORE | 1 Jul 2010
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Sarkozy marks anniversary of General de Gaulle's BBC broadcast
Moving article on the About the BBC's blog about the 70th anniversary on the 18th of June of General de Gaulle's impassioned speech from Broadcasting House calling for the mobilisation of the Free Fre...
READ MORE | 28 Jun 2010
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Languages, The World Cup and Fifa
Just in case anyone could have failed to notice, the World Cup has finally kicked off in South Africa, a nation that can make a fair claim to be truly multilingual. The country has eleven official lan...
READ MORE | 11 Jun 2010
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Hispanics in the US: A new generation
It would seem that Spanglish, the combination of English mixed with Spanish is truly becoming a significant force in youth culture in the U.S., according to a piece on the BBC's News site. It will be...
READ MORE | 9 Jun 2010
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‘It’s a pity that people don’t have to learn another language here’
Familiar, depressing riff from The Times about how the lack of second-language ability among graduates is harming UK business. As the article points out the main way to rectify this is to make languag...
READ MORE | 1 Jun 2010
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Many European countries complain that English is used in mass marketing to sell products but what is perhaps not so well appreciated is that the reverse is also true. As a post on Language on th...
READ MORE | 25 May 2010
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Does foreign language learning promote child development? According to a blog post on Babble, new studies suggests that kids who grow up with two languages are better at certain tests of "executive fu...
READ MORE | 20 May 2010
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The Beauty of Typography: Writing Systems and the Calligraphy of the World
Wonderfully written and illustrated article from Smashing Magazine on the typography of Asian and Arabic languages. As well as discussing how to differentiate diacriticals from radicals, the article h...
READ MORE | 19 May 2010
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Something très ludique for Friday. If you're learning French and you enjoy audio cut-ups and sound collages then you'll love this video of Etienne Charry's Lettre Anonyme, a mischievous, twiste...
READ MORE | 14 May 2010
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Fancy learning French from a footballer?
Imaginative school trips could be the secret weapon to increased take-up of languages at secondary school level. According to The Guardian a growing number of links between sporting organisations and...
READ MORE | 13 May 2010
