The Karachi mix

"Go to any bazaar in Karachi, particularly in one of its older areas, like Saddar, and soon the metropolitan character of the city will start to unfold in front of your eyes… A child with hair as golden as the...

Merry Christmas Happy Holidays in Klingon, Na'vi, Elvish and More

You can see Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays in any language, and while we have covered the traditional languages already, now let's look at how to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays in Kilngon, Na'vi,...

TED.com Open Translation Project - subtitles in 40 languages

I have many favorite TED.com lecturers, but I'd say my #1 favourite would have to be Harvard neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight. EXCERPT from the latest TED.com Press Release: “We’re excited to...

The “English Teacher” is a Thriving Species in France

The English Teacher (teacharium anglesius) is a species which has existed for hundreds of years now, and its habitat has expanded to cover much of the globe. It can be compared to the ant, or maybe the fly, in that...

Radio France Internationale protests job cuts

Staff from Radio France Internationale went on strike on Thursday to protest the French government's decision to cut more than 200 jobs or 25% of the workforce. RFI's language services will suffer, with six...

Video Game to Save Indigenous Languages:

The Cherokee people have only 8,000 fluent speakers currently and in an effort to save their language and other languages that are disappearing they developed a video game called "Rez World" in which their will be at least 12 level all of them dedicated to teaching the gamer...

Arab student 'kicked to death in racists' attack'

A great young man, had barely been in the country five weeks and was due to return home this coming weekend die in vain on England soil." Mohammed Al Majed, 16, who was learning English at a summer school, was ...

Celtic League - Languages Declaration call at UN

From the Celtic League: LANGUAGES DECLARATION CALL AT UNThe General Secretary of the Celtic League has added his voice tocalls which will be made at the United Nations this week to promotethe Universal Declaration...

Scotland/Alba - BBC - More support for dedicated Scottish news service

The third report from the Scottish Broadcasting Commission (SBC) setup to investigate the state of television production and broadcastingin Scotland, was published last week. The report, titled 'InterimReport of...

Mixed messages from French national Assembly on minority languages

The status of the Breton language took an unusual turn last Thursday(22nd May), as a proposed amendment to the French Constitution wasvoted for by the French National Assembly in Paris.The amendment states that...

Welsh Government set the agenda on Language rights

Even before the first ever debate is held in the French Parliamentthis Wednesday about the languages of the French state, Plaid Cymruhave announced that they are preparing to bid for an extension ofthe range of...

Paddington Bear is back 50 years on

I love Paddington Bear, and I still have all the books on tape that I used to listen to as a child to help me get to sleep. It has been 50 years since Michael Bond asked people to 'please look after this bear'....

Yahoo Launches Video On Flickr

Flickr has now added a video feature to the site."Flickr members can now upload video to the popular photo-sharing site.Yahoo launched video-sharing this week. Flickr boasts 42 million visitors a month. The...

BC has highest use of non-official languages at work

"In 2006, employment rates for both immigrants and Canadian born increased from those of 2001. The census also shows that BC remains to be the province with highest use of languages other than English or French at work."

CHAMILA PRIYADARSHANI EDIRISINGHA BECOMES A LANGUAGE TEACHER

"I was born in Mahavilachchiya, a remote village about 40 km away from Anuradhapura city, situated about 230 km of Colombo, Sri Lanka as the eldest daughter in farming family. I had most of my primary education...

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