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The class is a result of the National Security Language Initiative, introduced by President Bush in 2006 to teach the youngest students Chinese and other foreign languages considered critical to the nation's future security. tags language children fluent communication diplomacy advance america"We're going to teach our kids how to speak important languages," he said. One goal, he added, was "to advance America's interests around the world, and defeat this notion about our - you know our bullying concept of freedom by letting people see what we're about." picked by muppet 1 year ago |
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English speaking people with dyslexia may have to struggle quite a bit to get by. Other languages, such as Chinese represent an even greater challenge. It isn't just the greater complexity of the written language but the different way the brain translates the written word that also plays a part. picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Mango is offering free language courses on French, German, Italian, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and even Pig Latin 9 comments edit related share plime.comSpanish and Polish speakers can learn English picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago |
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The web has lots of free translation sites to translate between human languages but what about canine languages? A language that make large use of the body? Well thanks to modern technology now you can learn how to interpret what your dog is saying. picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Norwegian (here I'm talking about bokmål, the most often-used variety of Norwegian) is a language spoken by about 5 million people in Norway, and is extremely similar to the languages Swedish and Danish. picked by bernardblack 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share world |
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maybe its not dead, it says some people still speak it. in my opinion it's an unborn language 0 comments edit related share world*it was intended as a world language, FAIL* picked by picklebob12 2 years ago |
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Some cultures use a whistled language to communicate. This means that speech is emulated in whistling, which can cover much larger distances (typically 1 – 2 km but up to 5 km). Link points to examples and the wikipedia page is incredibly fascinating and points to even more examples of people speaking in whistles. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share world |
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Ancient gibberish or ancient language? Turns out it probably was a language. There are literally hundreds of ancient scripts around the world that could be examined with this technique. picked by Timageous 7 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Obama merely commented about the benefits of Americans learning a second language. A few people took issue with his comments, perhaps they misunderstood or twisted his words. He clarified his comments to show he wasn't some sort of secret anti-english person. picked by BernardBlack 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Arabic, Latin, English, Hebrew, Aramaic and Persian are all well known languages, but can there be a language that predates humanity itself by millions of years? 2 comments edit related share scienceIt's only the genetic code, but still an interesting article picked by lostsoul135 1 year ago |
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Sure, you've heard about people getting stupid gibberish phrases tattoos in Chinese, but where oh where can you go to take a look at them and read comments by people who actually can read the languages? Here! 0 comments edit related share plime.com(inspired by ) picked by Fascha 2 years ago |
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No wonder learning a new language can be more difficult the older you get. We were learning our individual languages before we were even born. 3 comments edit related share plime.comIt seems that fetuses not only warm to the sound of mother’s voice as they gestate, they also are being programmed in the direct patterns inherent in certain languages. By the time we are born, our dialect is determined. picked by bingo 3 weeks ago |
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He's not fluent I'm sure, but this kid's grasp of 13 languages is amazing. picked by ogri2003 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
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As a general rule, the most frequently used words in human languages tend to be the shortest. 1 comments edit related share scienceThe same law applies to dolphins slapping their tails, diving, flopping sideways, and performing other movements when surface swimming, according to Spanish and British researchers. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago |
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Industrial Manufacturing News January 30, 2007 Small and medium sized businesses benefit from the web-marketing platform, which will help U.S. businesses sell into the Chinese business market. American company will be able to grow their businesses in a new market and reach millions of distributors, agents and manufacturing sourcing sites by posting their sales message on the new web platfo... read full post picked by hank 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Isn't this the reason why you learn a foreign language in the first place? picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Campaigners for the English language on Thursday attacked a growing tendency for "obvious" public information posters, such as a police sign urging people: "Don't Commit Crime." picked by spocksmyhomeboy 2 years ago 8 comments edit related share plime.com |
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We offered this site. Another place is LiveMocha offering lessons on English, French, Hindi, German, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese with more languages to follow. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Learn to speak another language while you shower! This cute shower curtain is printed allover with French, German or Italian to English translations. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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A deaf dalmatian which was trapped in a world of its own has been given a new lease of life after learning sign language. 4 comments edit related share plime.comThe spotted dog called Zoe was born profoundly deaf and had failed to bond with its owner who was forced to give her up. But staff at an animal shelter began to teach the 18-month-old pooch basic sign language through a series of hand commands. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago |
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English language is quite large, but there are somethings that English just doesn't have a word for, such as someone who is excited by eating garlic, or how about the act of taking lice from a person's head and squashing it between one's teeth. 1 comments edit related share plime.comThese and other words are in a new book, Toujours Tingo picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago |