September 25, 2007at 10:27 am
· Filed under English Language, Languages and the world, Learn Chinese, Off the topic of languages
The country that will dominate will determine next world language
The powers
The way I see it is there is the USA, Europe, China, Russia, India.
Other power
Other considerations are either too small, like Japan or South Korea or like Africa or South America or the Arab world, does not have; at this time have a critical level […]
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Tags: America, China, Chinese, culture, english, EU, Europe, language, Russia, super-power, USA, world
September 24, 2007at 12:13 pm
· Filed under Being bilingual, Children, babies and language, Learn Chinese, Learn Russian
Bilingual education in America
The USA has given more funding and starting new programs in bilingual education in the public schools. The objective is to make the USA more competitive in the global market. These programs are just not traditional languages classes in a foreign language, but these are true bilingual education programs in public schools. […]
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Tags: American, Arabic, bilingual, Chinese, foreign, language, learn, russian, schools
September 10, 2007at 1:29 pm
· Filed under Learn Chinese, Learn Polish, Travel
Learn a language by selling in a market
I am an American living in Poland. And for fun sometimes I go to Ukraine and buy things cheap and sell them in the Polish open air market. I make some money but more important selling things in a stand all day I learn a lot of Polish. […]
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Tags: Chinese, foreign, language, learn, market, Polish, Techniques for language learning
August 15, 2007at 4:48 am
· Filed under English Language, General language learning, Internet language learning, Languages and the world, Learn Chinese, Learn Spanish
English has invaded other national languages.
Trends in business and demographics is like global warming, often there is little that can be done to reverse these trends. So is the case with the English language. “English has already invaded the languages of Moliere, Cervantes and Goethe, dominating the fields of technology and business and […]
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Tags: Chinese, english, Europe, invasion, Langauge, learn, Spanish, tends
August 10, 2007at 4:24 am
· Filed under Learn Chinese, Learn French, Learn Polish, Learn Spanish
Days after “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” online translations started to appear on the internet. Chinese, French, Spanish version are already on the web, I have not seen Polish but I am sure someone translated it, even for personal fun not for commerical profit. I thought of translating it for fun but […]
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Tags: happy potter, How to learn a language, online translation
August 9, 2007at 5:06 am
· Filed under General language learning, Learn Chinese
Of course language will be an issue in the 2008 Chinese Olympics.
“Translators and interpreters at next year’s Games will need more than just knowledge of a couple of languages, an expert has said. They’ll also need to be able to speak the language of sport.
As American Colin Pine - Yao Ming’s aide and translator in […]
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June 21, 2007at 5:47 am
· Filed under Diet and the brain, General language learning, Languages and the world, Learn Chinese
Students are studying less traditional European languages and more exotic languages What languages are hot now? Chinese and Arabic. These languages are growing in popularity. French and Latin not as much. The reasons are obvious, Chinese and Arabic is a manifestation of the geo-economic-political-demographics shifts. Also its fun to be different. If everyone around you […]
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May 10, 2007at 5:03 am
· Filed under General language learning, Languages and the world, Learn Chinese
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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May 3, 2007at 9:30 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, General language learning, Learn Chinese, Learn Polish
Language processing truly takes place all though the brain with different languages utilizing different centers. Polish and Chinese speakers use more of their brain as seen on PET scans then English speakers. There is no such physical language center is currently known. However, Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area have both been shown to be important […]
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May 2, 2007at 12:42 am
· Filed under Learn Chinese, Technology and language learning
Skype Your Way to Learning Chinese
Interested in learning Chinese, but don’t have the money or time to study in China? Some teachers are turning to Skype for help. by/from Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service-Interested in learning Chinese, but don’t have the money or time to study in China? Some teachers are turning to Skype for […]
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Tags: Learn Chinese, learning with skype, skype and language learning
