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04/16/2015

"Of course, the fables were written to teach kids how to behave toward each other," she says, "but they also involved thinking about how to use language. They offer commentary on the art of speaking."
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-04-animals-enliven-human-language.html

When Debra Hawhee reads Mother Goose and Aesop's Fables to her 5-year-old daughter, she hears in them the usual social lessons—and an additional layer of meaning besides.

07/09/2012

"We want everybody to be with at least some kind of diploma," said Pam Peralta, the district's general director of career, technical and adult education. "It's absolutely a critical step to your future career pathway." http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/all-day-all-spanish-program-is-an-alternative-for-some-hillsborough-teens/1231068

04/14/2012

Health promoters help bridge language, service gap http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Health-promoters-help-bridge-language-service-gap-3355626.php

Garcia is one of Columbus Regional Hospital's two "promotoras," or health promoters, who help Spanish-speaking residents by directing them to medical resources and educating them on health issues. The hospital uses a three-pronged outreach effort: CRH offers a clinic for Spanish-speaking ...

03/31/2012

Article: "Things lost (and gained) in Spanish translation"

Businesses and non-profits are motivated to reach out to all segments of the Hispanic community, but what are they losing when they do a rush job of their Hispanic marketing and communications? Targeting a segment other than general-market should always require some thinking and planning so that the...

02/21/2012

Learning your native language is tricky, say adult offspring of immigrants http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1133451--learning-your-native-language-is-tricky-say-adult-offspring-of-immigrants

It’s one thing to absorb a language while an infant and quite another to perform the same feat as a young adult.

01/30/2012

The Slow Death of the Signature in a PIN-Code World

There was a time when we took our signatures seriously, when we believed they said something about who we are. But now we have pin numbers.

01/25/2012

"The message sent by typing 'too' when it should be 'to' can literally be the difference between getting the nod or getting a no." - Here is a proofreading checklist for your résumé and cover letter.

These days, human resources departments and hiring managers are flooded with résumés. They have to be narrowed down somehow, and grammatical errors are an easy way to eliminate applicants.

01/17/2012

Bilingualism is not welcome in presidential candidates - A negative ad by Newt Gingrich against Mitt Romney concludes with a jab about the former Massachusetts governor speaking French, and Jon Huntsman, who has since left the race, faced criticism for dropping some Mandarin into a presidential debate. Some observers feel the attacks go too far and could backfire.

American voters don’t always view the ability to speak another language as an asset in a candidate.

01/17/2012

Is it true that US Americans are too monolingual? - Author Michael Erard writes in the New York Times opinion pages about the difficult task of deciphering how bilingual our culture is in America. The presumption is that people in this country have long expected others to learn English and have resisted learning a foreign language. As it turns out, the Census Bureau has found 20% of people speak another language at home, but even that statistic fails to account for all the multilingual Americans who speak another language somewhere other than home.

It’s assumed that few Americans speak more than one language, compared with citizens of other nations — but is it true?

01/10/2012

What sporks have to do with smog?

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01/10/2012

A new book, Babel No More by journalist Michael Erard, traces the history of people who can do just that: hyperpolyglots, people who speak 11 or more languages.

Philology, etymology, and word origins – Discover new word, their origins and definitions – Have you ever pondered the meaning or history of a word? Use Hot Words to learn the secrets of words, and how they came to be.