Should Foreign Languages Be Banned from US Workplaces?Language UseageIn the workplace, on the clock employees need to speak English. I don't care about their heritage -- I care about communication.On breaks or off the clock, speak whatever language you want -- be a mime, I don't care -- but...
Makes It Easy to Localize a KickApps Powered Website with a Single Click NEW YORK -- KickApps (www.kickapps.com), the industry's leading on-demand social media, video player and widget platform, today announced that web publishers and brands can easily translate their KickApps powered websites into French, Spanish, German, Italian...
DRAPER -- Five volunteers from the U.S. military are enrolled in an intense, four-month course to learn one of the world's most in- demand foreign languages. The language proficiencies and abilities of the 221st Military Intelligence Battalion from Fort Gillem, Ga., may astonish some, but instructor Jabra...
World in brief ROME Italy's film board has picked Gomorra, Matteo Garrone's study of the criminal underworld in Naples, as its entry for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards. Gomorra won second place at the Cannes Film Festival this spring. It is based on...
Makes It Easy to Localize a KickApps Powered Website with a Single Click NEW YORK -- KickApps (www.kickapps.com), the industry's leading on-demand social media, video player and widget platform, today announced that web publishers and brands can easily translate their KickApps powered websites into French, Spanish, German, Italian...
Smart Advice and Information for Today's Savvy International Traveler SEATTLE -- Traveling abroad can be an exciting undertaking and an invaluable experience packed with fond memories lasting a lifetime. Depending on the amount of time you will be in a foreign country, preparing for a trip overseas can...
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin AFP — Democratic candidate for the White House Barack Obama declared Monday that, unlike his Republican opponent John McCain, he would meet with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero if elected president. Obama responded "of course" to the question of meeting Zapatero when interviewed...
If YOU ARE A READER OF THE Irish Times, Books Ireland, or a number of other papers and journals, you will know that Robert Greacen, like W.H. Auden's Yeats, is now his poetry and prose. Born 24 October 1920 in Derry, Robert Henry Greacen died 13 April 2008 in Dublin's...
Franklin's SpellEvent for China To Be Sponsored on the Web by 100e BURLINGTON, N.J. and BEIJING, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. , a world leader in handheld electronic spelling and dictionary products, and Beijing 100e Science and Technology Ltd, the largest online English learning...
Sir: Dot Wordsworth wonders (Mind your language, 13 September) why foreign restaurants don't consult a native speaker before publishing a menu in English. I have the same question about The Spectator and attempted puns in German. Jonathan Burge (Letters, 13 September) ends with the battle cry 'Vorvarts Lidl!' Whoops! Sind...
UTRECHT, the Netherlands, September 17 /PRNewswire/ -- NRC Handelsblad launched its English language website nrc.nl/international on Tuesday, 16 September. The target group of the new site are foreigners who cannot read Dutch but who are interested in Dutch quality journalism. A selection of news items, background articles, features and...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Martha Foose and I go way back to days when I was newly arrived in the Delta and she was leaving--only to come back funnier and "Frenchier" than ever. We have been involved in many Delta functions and parties in various homes and venues, as well...
IF TODAY'S ECONOMY AND BUSIness trends are any indication, the lesson that the world is interconnected is becoming a mainstay of the social sciences. But one high-performing Long Island school district is taking cues from globalization and also applying international studies to a more hands-on discipline--the arts. The...
A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy from Qatar has died after being attacked by a white gang outside a takeaway restaurant in East Sussex in what police are treating as a racist murder. The boy, named last night as Mohammed al-Majed, lived in Hastings and had spent just five weeks...
Imagine you're in a foreign country where learning the language is incredibly hard, if not impossible. No one understands what you're saying. You can't comprehend a word. The best you can do is point and gesture, and hope the other person understands what you're trying to get across. You're now...
LOS ANGELES -- iCONECT([R]) Development LLC, a world leader in litigation support and collaboration software, is pleased to announce a strategic alliance with Fios([R]) Inc., dedicated exclusively to delivering comprehensive electronic discovery services to corporations and their outside counsel. Through this partnership, Fios is adding iCONECT's hosted review and collaboration...
With GCSE results out last week, Agns Poirier in 'The Guardian' presses us monolingual Brits about the joys of having a second language under your belt. "Another year, another record low number of teenagers taking GCSEs in foreign languages.... Since Tony Blair's decision in 2004 to make foreign languages optional...
BEIJING, Aug. 22 /Xinhua-PPNewswire/ -- Training over 1.5 million people to provide professional security, medical, hospitality, guidance, and other services for the Olympic Games would be a daunting task for any organization but throw in the added challenge of training them to provide all those services in 10 foreign languages?...
Exam boards are blaming British businesses for a further slump in the take-up of modern foreign languages at GCSE. Figures showed that take-up of French had fallen by a further 6.8 per cent this year to 201,940, which means that only about one in three teenagers is...
ONTARIO, Calif., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Don't wait until you have an accident to find what the language in your auto insurance policy means, says Frank N. Darras, America's top insurance lawyer. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070717/NYFNSC02 ) Liability, comprehensive, collision, uninsured motorist coverage, deductibles, it's worse...
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