Real and meaningful language acquisition
When we are put into real learning situations we have a big opportunity to improve. My recent visit to Romania was just such a real life language situation. I was forced to use the language for real...
View Article6/18/13 - careen
1. (Transitive) To turn (a ship) over on its side for cleaning and repairing. 2. (Intransitive) To rush headlong, swerving and tilting at high speed; to pitch or tilt to one side.
View ArticleWords in the News: Run Out
The Guardian says that David Cameron used a dinner at the first night of the G8 summit to try and build consensus for a political transition in Syria. Full story >> VOCABULARY If something runs...
View ArticleReuters Video: A G8 scoop—ice cream-flavored world leaders
Residents in the Northern Irish town of Enniskillen are enjoying world leader-inspired ice cream created especially for the G8 summit. Tara Cleary reports. TRANSCRIPT REPORTER: Nuts about Obama? Or do...
View ArticleCartoon: G8 Arm Wrestling
In this cartoon from The Telegraph, Adams uses arm wrestling as a metaphor for the wrangling over the war in Syria at the G8 summit. A bare-chested President Putin is shown arm-wrestling the other...
View ArticleTaking Your Medicine
While revenue forecasts for the pharmaceutical sector in 2013-14 have fluctuated, the industry is poised to maintain significant growth. The logistical problems inherent in supplying essential drugs to...
View ArticleWords of the day: Homosexual and heterosexual
The words homosexual and heterosexual are invented words, mixing the Greek homos and hetero (meaning same and different) and the Latin sexus (meaning gender). The first time the words appear was in...
View ArticleItalians and their Art of Gestures
When thinking about Italians and the stereotypes to which they are frequently associated, people would easily recall their verbal-visual way to establish interpersonal communication. As a matter of...
View ArticleGli Italiani e “l’arte dei gesti”
Quando si pensa agli Italiani, tra i vari stereotipi a cui li si associa, è facile pensare al linguaggio verbale-visivo a cui sono consoni ricorrere nello stabilire una comunicazione interpersonale. Di...
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Weekly Spanish Online Lesson
The post Weekly Spanish Online Lesson appeared first on Speaking Latino. For your spanish dictionary go to SpeakingLatino.com.Today I want to share with you this quick and easy tool you can use to...
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New 'Mixed' Language Discovered in Northern Australia - LiveScience.com
The AtlanticNew 'Mixed' Language Discovered in Northern AustraliaLiveScience.com"That structure doesn't exist in any of the languages that this new code came from, which is one of the reasons we see...
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Stop asking silly questions!
In my last post I mentioned a Telegraph poll which asked innocently: Does grammar matter? Other, equally unanswerable questions are floating around the media, like Is good grammar still important? (why...
View ArticleStop asking silly questions!
In my last post I mentioned a Telegraph poll which asked innocently: Does grammar matter? Other, equally unanswerable questions are floating around the media, like Is good grammar still important? (why...
View ArticlePress Release: Gilbane Conference Announces Dates for the 2013 Event in...
This premier industry event was created to help enterprises build agile, sustainable digital experiences through the use of compelling content Boston, Mass. (June 18, 2013 - BUSINESS WIRE – The Gilbane …
View ArticleJune Linkfest
The headline calls them “30 Most Overused Buzzwords in Digital Marketing,” but one of them, “P-commerce” (“participatory commerce” or “Pinterest commerce,” depending, I suppose, on context), is...
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"Our faces are a little out of focus."
You're showing your vacation photos to a friend. One of the photos isn't clear, so you comment on it. Our faces are a little out of focus.
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Keeping up to date
Recently, we've added several methods of keeping up to date on GamesWithWords.org projects (finding out when results of old studies are available, when new studies are posted, etc.). In addition to...
View ArticleNevada Gov. Signs Bill to Fund English-Learner Programs
For first time ever, the state of Nevada will provide funds to school districts to support programs for English-language learners.
View ArticleTHE FIFTH CORNER.
I wrote to Boris Dralyuk asking him about the Russian phrase пятый угол [pyaty ugol] 'fifth corner,' which Brodsky uses in a couple of poems in a way that was opaque to me (in "Кентавры" "спрятавшись в...
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It's the way you tell em': Study discovers how the brain controls accents and...
A study has identified the brain regions and interactions involved in impersonations and accents.
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