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Budget boost for migrant language centre - The Canberra Times
The Canberra TimesBudget boost for migrant language centreThe Canberra TimesMigrant children will continue to enjoy targeted English language training after the ACT government announced an extra $1.8...
View ArticleThe Changing Names of California's Freeways
Historian Kevin Starr writes: Freeways were initially given poetic-evocative names, drawn from historic, literary, or geographical sources: the Cahuenga, the Bayshore, the Redwood, the Ramona, the...
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How to coordinate terminology
There are many good reasons to manage terminology - improved branding, better quality, ability to enforce compliance, reduced costs, and faster time to market. Despite all of these reason, few are the...
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Bad Evolutionary Arguments
The introductory psychology course I teach for is very heavy on evolutionary psychology. The danger with evolutionary explanations is that it's pretty easy to come up with bad ones. Here's the best...
View ArticleWAATAR, WATER.
The story of Bedřich Hrozný realizing that Hittite was Indo-European when he saw that wa-a-tar must mean ‘water’ is well loved among historical linguists and is familiar to anyone who's read anything...
View ArticleHippie punching
"Hippie punching" is in the news around the world these days — Paul Krugman, "Macroeconomic Hippie-Punching", NYT 5/26/2013; "Gordon Campbell on the govt's latest bout of hippie punching", Scoop Media...
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The Language Wars of France - CounterPunch
The Language Wars of FranceCounterPunchA single market, a single currency, a single language? The doors and bridges shown on Euro notes already reflect the fluid nature of deals between businessmen...
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Spelling bee winner: I studied German language patterns - Today.com
New YorkerSpelling bee winner: I studied German language patternsToday.comAs the confetti rained down after he won the 86th Scripps Spelling Bee on Thursday night, Arvind Mahankali, 13, was calm. “It...
View ArticleO Que Significa CEO?
Você em algum momento já se perguntou o que significa CEO? Você certamente já viu essa sigla por aí, não é mesmo? Você até faz uma ideia do que seja, mas o que significa CEO realmente? Continue lendo...
View Article“Negatyw” – beautiful poem by Wisława Szymborska
Today an amazing poem by Wisława Szymborska (a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature), translated and with pronunciation: Negatyw Na niebie burym...
View ArticleNihon, Nippon, Japan
Students of Japanese often get confused about when to use "Nihon" and when to use "Nippon" as the name of the country. In truth, there are many names for the "Land of the Rising Sun (a translation of...
View ArticleO Certo é All Right ou Alright?
Na dica “Como Dizer Vai Dar certo em Inglês?” mencionei a expressão “everything’s gonna be all right“. No entanto, na imagem que ilustra a dica está escrito “everything’s gonna be alright“. Isso fez...
View Article6/1/13 - gnomon
1. An upright arm that projects a shadow and is used as an indicator or measure, as on a sundial. 2. An L-shaped figure created by removing a smaller parallelogram from a larger one from one of its...
View ArticlePara que Servem os Verbos Irregulares?
Todo estudante de inglês em algum momento se pergunta para que servem os verbos irregulares em inglês. Tenho certeza que você aí já se fez essa pergunta ou conhece alguém que a fez. Portanto, se você...
View ArticleWords in the News: Amoral
The Daily Mail leads on the Business Secretary Vince Cable calling on internet search giant Google to do more to block child pornography. Full story >> VOCABULARY If you describe someone as...
View ArticleReuters Video: Corporate competition packs a punch
Tokyo executives take corporate in-fighting to a new level, entering the boxing ring in search of knock-outs. Tara Cleary report. TRANSCRIPT REPORTER: Rival corporate employees duke it out - all in aid...
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Defense Language Institute names Betty Leaver as provost - Monterey County...
Defense Language Institute names Betty Leaver as provostMonterey County HeraldBetty Lou Leaver, an associate provost of continuing education for eight years at the Defense Language Institute, was named...
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'Exotic' languages get Swiss tongues wagging - swissinfo.ch
'Exotic' languages get Swiss tongues waggingswissinfo.chInterest in languages such as Chinese, Russian and Arabic is growing in Switzerland. An ability to decode one of these gives a CV a definite...
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Language Learning Tip: Learn the Most Common Verbs in your Target Language
Verbs Make Things Happen A few years ago, I had what seemed at the time a brilliant idea to come up with a language learning method called "Action-Oriented Language Learning". Then I quickly realized...
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Bridging the walls of language - The Hindu
Bridging the walls of languageThe HinduIn the afterword, translator Jason Grunebaum sketches how hard it was for the iconoclast Hindi writer Uday Prakash to write in the face of overwhelming odds. In...
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