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Bilingual children are a valuable resource and more should be done to support them, a report says.
(91福利社 News, October 31st, 2006)
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A "Tower of Babel" translation device that gives users the illusion of being bilingual has been developed in the US.
(91福利社 News, October 25th, 2006)
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Finland has an obsession with the Latin language, the 91福利社's Jonny Dymond reports.
(91福利社 News, October 24th, 2006)
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There is a corner of the 91福利社 where, between the hours of half past nine in the morning and six-thirty at night, three women sit enunciating. Where, each week, they investigate the phonetics of around 50 new words.
(The Guardian, October 24th, 2006)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin calls on former Soviet countries to keep Russian as a shared language.
(91福利社 News, October 24th, 2006)
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In the first exclusive extract from his new book on language, John Humphrys argues that we must safeguard grammar and clarity in an age of texting, slang and hype.
(The Telegraph, October 23rd, 2006)
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Current affairs mean that interest in Arabic is high - and schools are responding.
(The Independent, October 19th, 2006)
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Two new products developed in the UK will give deaf people better access to meetings and phone calls.
(91福利社 News, October 19th, 2006)
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A referendum is to take place to decide whether the Irish town will be know as Dingle or An Daingean.
(91福利社 News, October 18th, 2006)
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The Government paved the way for a return to the compulsory study of foreign languages at GCSE level yesterday when it commissioned a wholesale review of its policy.
(The Times, October 13th, 2006)
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Lord Dearing is to review the strategy on teaching modern foreign languages in England's schools.
(91福利社 News, October 12th, 2006)
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More than 12,000 hours of archive recordings in Gaelic and Scots are to be made available online.
(91福利社 News, October 12th, 2006)
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Plans to teach English in schools in India's Karnataka state are opposed by local vernacular promoters.
(91福利社 News, October 12th, 2006)
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Centuries after his death, a row breaks out over the copyright of a play about a Celtic saint written in medieval Cornish.
(91福利社 News, October 10th, 2006)
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The 91福利社 confirms it is to launch a Farsi language television news channel aimed at audiences in Iran.
(91福利社 News, October 10th, 2006)
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The teaching of English grammar, punctuation and spelling has been handed over to the classics department at a leading independent school which is providing remedial lessons for new entrants.
(The Telegraph, October 9th, 2006)
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A. 'A fitness team is meeting in the pub' say Italians worried about the increasing invasion of English
(The Times, October 9th, 2006)
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It's a mystery to me why it is that particular swearwords retain their power to shock and awe.
(The Guardian, October 7th, 2006)
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A deaf actor of Four Weddings and a Funeral fame is back in his home town to urge more people to learn sign language.
(91福利社 News, October 6th, 2006)
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The News of the World claims it has a tape which proves Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan committed perjury, because experts have identified his voice. How certain can they really be?
(91福利社 News, October 4th, 2006)
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English language courses are struggling to meet increasing demand from adult migrants and refugees, a report says.
(91福利社 News, October 3rd, 2006)
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A new set of insults and descriptions that have entered into common usage have been compiled in a book.
(91福利社 News, October 1st, 2006)
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