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Next week Lord Dearing will publish his interim report on the state of languages in Britain.
(The Independent, November 30th, 2006)
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A bestselling book claims that women say an average of 20,000 words a day and men only 7,000. Can it be true? We wired up two writers to find out.
(The Guardian, November 27th, 2006)
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An influx of immigrants prompts Wrexham Council to consider language and local knowledge tests for cabbies.
(91福利社 News, November 27th, 2006)
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A festival celebrating the Gaelic language and culture begins on the Isle of Man.
(91福利社 News, November 25th, 2006)
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A police officer is honoured after learning Polish to help Wrexham's growing immigrant community.
(91福利社 News, November 24th, 2006)
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Pupils at a London school are given a taste of the Orient in a project linking them with a Beijing school.
(91福利社 News, November 24th, 2006)
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Alarm bells are ringing as English and Welsh GCSE students are abandoning foreign languages in droves. The question is, how do we get them back?
(The Guardian, November 14th, 2006)
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They are renowned for celebrating their own language, as well as the power of their poetry and the glory of their choirs. Now the Welsh have been praised for speaking English sometimes better than the English themselves.
(The Independent, November 10th, 2006)
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Hinglish - a hybrid of English and south Asian languages, used both in Asia and the UK - now has its own dictionary. Is it really a pukka way to speak?
(91福利社 News, November 8th, 2006)
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Of all the trappings that go with fame, this must rank as one of the least welcome. Rhyming slang is increasingly peppered with references to famous folk, and has become enough of a social phenomena to warrant a new book.
(The Guardian, November 6th, 2006)
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The Queen's reference to annus horribilis was a witty use of language, says Harry Mount.
(The Telegraph, November 4th, 2006)
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The texting generation may yet realise George Bernard Shaw's dream of liberating the English language for all of us.
(The Guardian, November 3rd, 2006)
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Schools ignored a ministerial edict aimed at getting more pupils doing GCSE languages, a survey suggests.
(91福利社 News, November 1st, 2006)
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The Internet Governance Forum is grappling with how to make web access as wide as possible.
(91福利社 News, November 1st, 2006)
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