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American Students Are Learning Mandarin In Droves, With Not Enough Teachers. English is the native tongue of more than 300 million people in the world. But more than 1 billion speak Mandarin Chinese. Chinese has become the newest export to the United States, where in the last few years the study of Chinese has gone [...]

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English and language is more than grammar
Teachers, let go of the old ways By Lynne McGready- I decided to write this article after watching many of my own students lose confidence in their ability to enhance their English language skills. I have written this in the hope that I am merely providing ‘food for thought’ [...]

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The chance to learn a language is equal, for everyone but some people have to work harder than others.  What you have to do is find the technique that works for you and use this, as everyone learns different.  If you do this then the playing field is virtually level for all language learners.
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Can you image if the how world spoke Polish, almost like much of the world speaks English. But image if the whole world spoke Polish.  What would become of the Polish language and universal words? Regarding Polish, I am sure there would be thousands of dialects and regional variation, now there really are not any [...]

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Pocket PC/ Palmtop with languages
I got a new Palmtop last night. I will try out the multi media functions, as movies and internet on my palm. I am sure that I will start downloading things that will help my language learning. When I come out with my mp3 program, I will use it myself on [...]

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Experts say English still world’s language from The Brunei Times-English will remain the global language in the foreseeable future, even with the fast paced changes brought about from the forces of globalisation, experts said.
Trends in technology helps to further spread English as the global language, thus most people tend to agree that English will continue to [...]

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When you read foreign websites and see how different languages translate and understand words and phrases. One example one of my favorite subtle ‘lost in translation’ things I see in Poland is ‘zapraszamy’. Which means ‘we invite you’. So when Poles translate their websites or write a marketing letter, I see something like, ‘we invite [...]

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When you first start speaking a language, your first method of communication is often sms. An Sms is like a small Haikus written in a simple language without respect to pure grammar rules.  If you have ever lived in a foreign country you will see sms is often your first entrance into real communication in [...]

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Besides Avril Lavigne recorded her new song “Girlfriend” inEnglish, the Canadian pop star recorded in French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin. Avril said Mandarin was the hardest for her.
   
“The hardest one was actually Mandarin. Japanese was easy, sort of. French was easy, but German was difficult,”
“But it was cool … because I have [...]

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Foreigners Could Face a Language Test by David Nowak- If Alexander Krutov gets his way, foreigners in this country may soon have to pass a Russian language test to qualify for a work permit.
“It is the moral obligation of people working in a given country to make an effort to learn its language,” Krutov, a State [...]

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