Reuters Video: Avoiding the box office movie megaflops
With this year's crop of summer blockbusters bigger and more expensive than ever, the pressure is on for the big movie studios just to break even. Executives will be hoping to avoid any repeat of last...
View ArticleWord of the day: Budgerigar or budgie
Discovered in 1770 by James Cook and his crew, and described in the journal as “beautiful birds of the parrot kind, such as lorryquets” they became famous in England when the naturalist and one of the...
View ArticleCartoon: Modern Britain
This cartoon by Andy Davey from The Sun relates to a story in the same paper about Britain's "chubbiest police officer", who is rather cruelly nicknamed "Plodzilla" (plod is a British slang term for a...
View ArticleA fractured argument
Shale gas sourced through fracking has driven down energy costs in the United States but plans for similar work in the UK are not universally popular. Dissenting voices question the environmental...
View Article5 Tipps für die China-Vorbereitung
Was ist bei der China-Vorbereitung besonders wichtig? Was sollte man nicht vergessen, wenn man für die Arbeit nach China zieht? Wir haben uns bei deutschen China-Expatriates umgehört und eine Liste mit...
View Article5 tips for your China preparation
What is especially important when it comes to preparing for China? What should you not forget when moving there for work? We asked German expats in China and compiled a list with their best tips. Our...
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10 Easy English-Spanish Words You Can Add to Your Vocabulary Today
The post 10 Easy English-Spanish Words You Can Add to Your Vocabulary Today appeared first on Speaking Latino. For your spanish dictionary go to SpeakingLatino.com.When I was reading the book Spanish...
View ArticleSpelling Rage
From Head Trip for 7/6/2006, someone who feels strongly about spelling: It's not entirely clear to me whether Mal is angry with users of simplified spellings, or with those who propose spelling reform...
View ArticleComo dizer emburrado em inglês?
Como dizer emburrado em inglês? Se você que encontrar a resposta para essa pergunta, leia esta dica até o fim. Antes, vamos falar um pouco sobre emburrado e só então aprender como dizer emburrado em...
View ArticleLanguage tip of the week: solution
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are usually based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g....
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Language tip of the week: solution
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are usually based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g....
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Dialect Maps Illustrate US Accents: Linguistics Go Viral on Social Media -...
Dialect Maps Illustrate US Accents: Linguistics Go Viral on Social MediaNewsmax.comA series of maps illustrating the linguistics and pronunciations of certain words in different regions throughout the...
View ArticleShopgirl "So"
I spotted this sign at Coverings in San Luis Obispo, home of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. “We are so hiring.” The small red type reads: “(and a professional, motivated, energetic, team oriented...
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Why so little Chinese in English? - The Economist (blog)
Why so little Chinese in English?The Economist (blog)ON TWITTER, a friend asked "Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common parlance in English?" I replied that we've already had 35...
View ArticleELL Accountability Could Widen Under Harkin NCLB Bill
More schools would be held accountable for the performance of English-learners under the provisions of a bill to reauthorize the federal education law.
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One Language After All - The American Conservative (blog)
One Language After AllThe American Conservative (blog)The UNC graduate student Joshua Katz has compiled a set of maps that tracks regional variations in American English. A comparison of pronunciations...
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McDonald adjusting to 'different language' of 49ers offense - Comcast...
McDonald adjusting to 'different language' of 49ers offenseComcast SportsNet Bay Area“A lot of people say football's football, but this offense is like speaking a different language,” McDonald said....
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Fewer Sask. students studying a second language - StarPhoenix
StarPhoenixFewer Sask. students studying a second languageStarPhoenixRebecca Kristjanson is so enthused about learning French, she's off to Quebec this summer to immerse herself in the language. "It...
View Article"Hard vowel sounds"
"Red-blue divisions start with newborns’ names; parents show partisan tendencies", Washington Times 6/5/2013: Names with the soft consonant “l” or that end in a long “a” — for example, President...
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LaMP Teaches You a Foreign Language via Movie and YouTube Subtitles - Lifehacker
LaMP Teaches You a Foreign Language via Movie and YouTube SubtitlesLifehackerWindows/Web: LaMP, or Lingual Media Player, is a neat program for learning a new language through watching videos—one of the...
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