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Drop these ugly Anglicisms ASAP, urge French language police - The Guardian
The GuardianDrop these ugly Anglicisms ASAP, urge French language policeThe GuardianThe Immortals, as academy members are known, have published a damning condemnation of ASAP in their ongoing campaign...
View ArticleCrossword: Retailing
The month of January is synonymous with sales, so it seems appropriate that the topic of this week's crossword should be retailing. Click here to download a PDF version with solution, and here for an...
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Baby talk study: One-on-one builds language skills quickly - Christian...
Christian Science MonitorBaby talk study: One-on-one builds language skills quicklyChristian Science MonitorThis research differs from previous studies on the effects of talking to your baby in that it...
View ArticleO que significa inside the beltway?
Se você costuma ler noticiários, ouvir programas de rádio, assistir a programas de TV que falam sobre a política americana, é bem provável que já se deparou com a expressão inside the beltway. Caso...
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The new year: looking back and looking ahead
The beginning of the year is always a good opportunity to take stock: what went right in 2013, what needs to go better in 2014, and where do you want to be a year from now? Let’s look at some questions...
View ArticleMeshi.
I can’t resist passing along this footnote from How to Read the Bible (see this post): Mention here should be made of the proposal by F. Masclef in his Grammaire hébraique (1716) that Hebrew consonants...
View ArticleSpanish from Scratch 8
We move on to talking about “doing”, with a focus on the continuous tense. Learn how to say things like “I’m running”, “she’s going” and more. Make sure that you’ve listened to the previous podcasts,...
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What Happens When A Language's Last Monolingual Speaker Dies? - NPR (blog)
NPR (blog)What Happens When A Language's Last Monolingual Speaker Dies?NPR (blog)Emily Johnson Dickerson died at her home in Ada, Okla., last week. She was the last person alive who spoke only the...
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Noam Chomsky: US Politics Are Now 'Pure Savagery' - Huffington Post
Noam Chomsky: US Politics Are Now 'Pure Savagery'Huffington PostChomsky is a leading American intellectual known at first for his academic work in the field of linguistics. He has since become an...
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Most Popular Programming Language for First-Time Learners: Python - Lifehacker
Most Popular Programming Language for First-Time Learners: PythonLifehackerIf you're planning to learn to code, the first language you should learn depends heavily on what you plan to do. However, some...
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Pictorial mnemonics x sound contrasting = more effective English teaching
New research has found that mnemonic images and explicit sound contrasting help Japanese children learn more effectively the sounds of the English alphabet.
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Octopus got your tongue? - USC News
USC NewsOctopus got your tongue?USC News“We're still scratching the surface on this,” he added. “It's a very complicated project.” Khalil Iskarous, assistant professor of linguistics at USC Dornsife,...
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Noche Oscura en Lima - Chapter 30
Pablo González guardó silencio un rato, la cabeza apoyada en las manos. Lo de la carta le había traído a la memoria cosas muy tristes. --Cuando al fin...
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Epilepsy drug taken in pregnancy found safe in preschool child development
A new study finds that the epilepsy drug levetiracetam appears not to be associated with thinking, movement and language problems for preschool children born to mothers who took the drug during...
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"Does that make sense?"
You're training a new employee in your group at work. You've just explained how to check an important spreadsheet. You're not sure if he understood your explanation, so you ask this. Does that make...
View ArticleMy 90-Day Korean Challenge
In a week from now I’m going to jump into Korean. I mean that I’m going to focus on this language for 90 days. I’m not new to Korean, I have dabbled in it over the years. I get tongue tied when I tried...
View Article1/9/14 - vortex
1. A powerful spiral current of liquid or gas that sucks everything toward its center, such as a whirlpool or tornado. 2. A situation or circumstance that draws everything and/or everyone around it...
View ArticleReuters Video: Hell has frozen over
Hell, Michigan has been hit with freezing temperatures. Julie Noce reports. TRANSCRIPT REPORTER: It's so cold in the U.S. that hell has frozen over. Hell, Michigan, that is. Located about 15 miles...
View ArticleWord of the day: Bacteria
The word comes from a Latin attempt to write out the Greek word bacterium which means staff or stick, describing the first bacteria observed which were oblong. Why Latin? Because the word was initially...
View ArticleCartoon: French Basket Case
BACKGROUND An article in Newsweek entitled The Fall of France, by journalist Janine di Giovanni, has proved beyond the pale even for the most sanguine of Gallic commentators, who this week have...
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