Source: Multilingual Living by contributor on February 6, 2012 · 0 comments Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele and his daughter Livia By Clo Originally published in Multilingual Living Magazine In my constant quest of knowledge to better understand the different and complex facets of multilingualism, I stumbled across a very informational paper by Dr. Jean-Marc...
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Katja Bobyleva is een Russische. Haar vriend Sylvain Kragbe komt uit Ivoorkust. Zij spreekt Russisch met de kinderen, hij Frans. Met elkaar spreken ze Nederlands.
David Lienemann for The New York Times In a recent essay in The Times, Lawrence Summers, the former president of Harvard University, wrote about preparing American students for the future. In the essay, he said that international experience was essential, arguing that English’s emergence as the global language makes the investment in other languages less essential....
Published January 14th Michael Erard is the author of the book "Babel no more" See : The gift of tongues (The Economist) and The Art of Mastering Many Tongues (NY Times) AMERICANS are often told that in today’s globalized world, we are at a competitive disadvantage because of our lazy monolingualism. “For too long, Americans have relied on other...
What makes some people learn language after language? Dec 31st 2011 Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners. By Michael Erard. Free Press; 306 pages; $25.99. Buy from Amazon.com CARDINAL MEZZOFANTI of Bologna was a secular saint. Though he never performed the kind of miracle needed to be officially canonised, his power was close to...
By PETER CONSTANTINE Published: January 20, 2012 Among the most surprising qualities of “Babel No More,” Michael Erard’s globe-trekking adventure in search of the world’s virtuosos of language learning, is that a book dealing with language acquisition and polyglot linguistics can be so gripping. But indeed it is — part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual...
dinsdag, 10 januari 2012 Paramaribo - Negentig procent van de Surinamers spreekt thuis twee talen en bijna de helft zelfs drie of meer. Dat blijkt uit een enquête die de Nederlandse Taalunie publiceert in Taalpeil 2011, de jaarlijkse krant over het Nederlands. In Nederland en Vlaanderen is meertaligheid nog niet tot het dagelijkse leven van iedereen doorgedrongen, blijkt...
Source: Plurilingualism at the University of Almería We already know how language learning is in Spain and specially, at the University of Almería…But would you like to find out how it is in other countries? Come and Discover it with us! This week Hungary, by Réka Marincsak, Team member of the Plurilingualism Promotion Plan. Read more......
Huffington Post, January 12 2012 By Nataly Kelly Admit it. At one point or another, the words "Learn a new language," have appeared on your list of New Year's Resolutions. Like most resolutions made with the best of intentions, this one frequently fizzles out well before the year comes to an end. But speaking multiple languages is not uncommon -- it's the normal...
... verstaan we elkaar ? Posted on November 29, 2011 by Kirsi Suutarinen on Language Rich Europe blog Volgend bericht werd geschreven door Aleksandra Parcinska, Project Manager Language Rich Europe in British Council Netherlands. Ze schrijft over taaltoetsen en meertaligheid in Nederland, waarover een congres werd gehouden op 10 november in Den Haag. Lees...
9/11/11 Outre avoir montré que le parti au pouvoir avait subi une attaque informatique grave à quelques mois de la présidentielle, le piratage des données personnelles de certains cadres de l'UMP a mis en évidence les quelques lacunes linguistiques des élus de la majorité. Ce piratage, si il a été probablement été commis au niveau du groupe UMP à l'Assemblée, c'est le parti...
Indicador Europeu de Competência Linguística inquérito sobre os conhecimentos dos estudantes nas duas línguas mais ensinadas na Europa Inquérito do Eurobarómetro inquérito sobre as competências linguísticas dos cidadãos europeus e a sua atitudes em relação à aprendizagem de línguas As línguas em 2010 e além as línguas no quadro estratégico para a cooperação europeia...
Portalingua, 20/10/11 O crescimento da economia brasileira e a maior presença de multinacionais no país aumentaram o interesse de estrangeiros em aprender a língua portuguesa. Enquanto europeus e americanos enfrentam altas taxas de desemprego e risco de recessão, o Brasil se tornou o país da moda no exterior --e a língua portuguesa...
Le Courrier des Balkans, 5 octobre 2011 Traduit par Jovana Papović Publié dans la presse : 22 septembre 2011 Mise en ligne : mercredi 5 octobre 2011 Cette année, un nouveau scandale a éclaté : les romans de Miljenko Jergović et Muharem Bazdulj ont été écartés de la sélection pour le prestigieux...
Communiqué de presse de l'Union européenne 26 septembre 2011 Journée européenne des langues En 2009, 95% des élèves du deuxième cycle de l'enseignement secondaire dans l'UE27 ont étudié l'anglais comme langue étrangère Plus grande diversité dans la seconde langue étrangère la plus...
Source : Union européenne, Communiqué de presse Rapid STAT/11/138 Le 26 septembre 2011 Journée européenne des langues En 2009, 95% des élèves du deuxième cycle de l'enseignement secondaire dans l'UE27 ont étudié l'anglais comme langue étrangère. Plus grande diversité dans la seconde...
... If you tell an Aussie mate you're learning Spanish, he'll say: "Cool." Tell him you're learning Indonesian and he'll say: "Why? Weren't you learning Spanish?". If I had my wits about me, I could point at my feet and say: "Sepatu, Indonesian for shoe. Zapato, Spanish for shoe. They're fellow travellers, these languages, thanks to the Portuguese spice...
13.09.2011 | Courrier international Les candidats à la présidence du Kirghizistan parlent-ils kirghize ? Les 65 concurrents en lice pour la présidentielle d’octobre doivent passer un examen de langue en direct à la télévision. Au Kirghizistan, ancienne République soviétique, l’élite...
Nicolas Journet Nul ne conteste que la langue anglaise se soit hissée, au cours du xxe siècle, à la première place parmi les langues internationales : 1,4 milliard d’hommes vit dans des pays dont c’est la langue officielle, 1,3 milliard la pratique comme langue seconde, et on estime qu’en l’an 2000, un autre...
A polyglot is someone with a high degree of proficiency in several languages. (A bilingual person can speak two languages fluently, a trilingualhyperpolyglot.) three. One who can speak six or more languages fluently is known as a The following list must be seen as anecdotal. Calculations as to "how many" languages anyone speaks is impossible for several reasons. Read...
Loretta Scott '10 is currently working in NYC in marketing/business development. She started a Youtube series called "The Difficulties of Japanese" in 2007, and was eventually contacted by YesJapan Corporation, which provides real-world and online courses for Japanese langauge learning. She's now contracted as a video producer, and creates youtube-style education videos for...
What is multilingualism? We will tell you. - Short sentences, oppinions about the multilingualism, in Europe and in the world. Facts and benefits, why it is important to speak languages, even more language. Lot of my friends helped me to do this short movie, many thanks for participating. The spoken languages in this movie: Hungarian, Slovakian, German, Finnish, Turkish, Danish,...
Today we have a guest post from Vilma Bačkiūtė. Vilma is Partnerships and Projects Manager for British Council Lithuania.
To quote professor Ted Cantle, “This is a new era of mass migration, of visible communities and an era of super-diversity”. Read the article...
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