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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 3 months ago |
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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 1 year ago |
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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 3 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share world |
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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 4 months 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 3 months 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 1 year 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 1 year ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
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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 1 year 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 2 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 1 year 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 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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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 1 year ago |
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These books make great Christmas gifts for all of your friends who have children picked by Bornbad 11 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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A true beer connoisseur would never pass up an opportunity to try the local brew, no matter where on Earth where they found themselves, and so it behooves the serious beerologist to know how to order a beer in as many languages as possible. Cheers! picked by Mitzuzake 8 months ago 2 comments edit related share entertainment |
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How to know if a girl is interested in you (body language of flirting) picked by kokototo 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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FOXP2, to date the only gene known to play a role in speech and language, has now been found by scientists to be identical in Neanderthals and Humans. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago 7 comments edit related share science |
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The following techniques are used to tell if someone is lying are often used by police, and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams and other deceptions. picked by wags273 10 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Throughout the world, and dating back to antiquity, deaf people have communicated using their hands and faces. Signed languages are still often regarded as inferior to speech and are perceived as relying on mimicry or pantomime. Most linguists now accept that sign languages have all of the grammatical and expressive sophistication of oral languages. Not all linguists have seen the light, though. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
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This female chimpanzee was said to be the first non-human to acquire human language. She died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. picked by Proverb 1 year ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |