Belindaadded this to Exploring SingaporeSingaporeTo ask if speaking Singlish makes it difficult for people to speak English is akin to asking if speaking Spanish would bechannelnewsasia.com - Tan Ying Ying SINGAPORE: The narratives surrounding Singlish has dominated both the public and academic imagination. Singlish has had her share of supporters and …
Joseph Mazaadded this to Language Duolingo Here's why language learning app Duolingo ranked number 28 on CNBC Disruptor 50 listCNBC - CNBC US Source Luis von Ahn, Duolingo CEO and co-founder, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss how the company is disrupting traditional lanuage learning.
Joseph Mazaadded this to Language Switzerland What to do when you feel like giving up on learning German in Switzerlandthelocal.ch - Naomi Tsvirko When I first moved to Switzerland I was so excited to learn a new language because I wanted to be part of the community. As a resident of Basel …
CNBCadded this to Top NewsDuolingo Want to learn to speak High Valyrian? Duolingo's 'Game of Thrones' lessons see spike in popularityCNBC - Michelle Fox The move has paid off — High Valyrian is more popular on the app than some languages spoken in the real world, like Irish, Polish or Hebrew. "I don't …
MarketplaceDuolingo How Duolingo's CEO harnessed our game addiction for good - MarketplaceMarketplace First, he helped teach computers how to read newspapers. Now, he's helping the rest of us learn a new language. How We SurviveClimate change is here. …
Inverseadded this to ScienceScience Video Games Are Making It Easier to Talk Trash in a New LanguageInverse It's easier than ever to "level up" your cognitive abilities, new research shows. Online gaming has become a concern for some parents in the past few …
Cellular Phone Vancouver Community College promotes mlearning as an alternative for students hoping to learn Englishstraight.com - Charlie Smith For more than 50 years, Vancouver Community College has been a leader in helping immigrants establish careers in Canada. During the past school year, …
Play buttonMissoula, MT Arts & Education: Missoula students learning Spanish in a unique waykpax.com - Meteorologist Lewis Dortch MISSOULA – We headed over to Paxson Elementary School in this week’s Arts and Education to get a look at their unique ways of learning a second …
The Hindu Groupadded this to The HinduFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAssam Assam NGO diktat: ‘Don’t give job without learning local language’thehindu.com - Special Correspondent An influential literary organisation in Assam has issued a diktat, saying people not knowing Assamese or any other indigenous language will not be …
Shane Leschasinadded this to APPLE UPROOTEDGoogle How to make Google automatically delete the data it stores about youappleinsider.com - William Gallagher Google has now begun to roll out its new feature that lets you limit how long it saves information about you. Here's how to use it. As reported by …
CNBCDuolingo 28. DuolingoCNBC - CNBC.com staff Founders: Luis von Ahn (CEO), Severin Hacker Launched: 2011 Headquarters: Pittsburgh Funding: $108.3 million Valuation: $700 million (PitchBook) Key …
Vanity FairDothraki Watch Game of Thrones Language Creator Reviews People Speaking Valyrian and Dothraki | Vanity Fair Video | CNEVanity FairDavid J. Peterson created two complete languages for Game of Thrones based on only a few lines of dialogue in the books. Watch as David reviews people on the attempting to speak Dothraki and High Valyrian.
University of Toronto Colourful language: U of T psychologists discover enhanced language learning in synesthetesutoronto.ca - www.utoronto.ca
Livemintadded this to NewsLanguage In India, who speaks in English, and where?livemint.com - Rukmini S English speakers are very much India’s elite, and their proportion may be shrinking, new data on the demographic profile of English language speakers …
Netherlands Five reasons why you should learn English in the Netherlands (with the BSN Language Centre) – DutchReviewdutchreview.com - Emma Brown Have you recently arrived in the Netherlands and have noticed how skilled the Dutch are in the English language? Do you wish to get to that level of …
DW NewsIgbo English threatens Nigeria′s native languagesDW News - DW English Titilope Keshinro, a pupil at the University of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria, naturally speaks Yoruba with her fellow students. The language spoken …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDuolingo How Rosetta Stone has adjusted to industry trends over the past 26 yearsyahoo.com - Yahoo Finance Video Shares of Rosetta Stone recently hit a 52-week high - and are up more than 50% for the year. With the emergence of language apps such as Babbel and …
Françoise Wilsonadded this to Language Learning and Language TeachingLanguage Bring back the joy of learning languagesThe GuardianReaders respond after the exams regulator Ofqual is accused of ‘killing off’ modern languages by marking them too harshly Languages teachers have known for a long time that GCSE and A-level exams have
Prabhas Prabhas on learning Hindi for Saaho: A lot of preparation went into iteasterneye.biz - Murtuza Iqbal Prabhas is a big name down South, but thanks to Baahubali franchise he is now a household name across the nation. The actor is currently busy with …
twowatchesadded this to International Education and Eclectic Sources of InsightGCSEs Language exams: how hard are they and is there a crisis?The Guardian - Anna BawdenWhy modern language GCSEs are in decline and what the government is doing Research by Suzanne Graham, a professor of language and education at Reading University, shows that even though many students it
Daenerys Targaryen New app lets you speak like Daenerys from "Game of Thrones"iheart.com - washfm.iheart.com You can now learn to talk like Daenerys … Yep, 1.2 million Game of Thrones fans have signed up on language-learning app Duolingo to learn how to speak …
CNNadded this to WorldLearning Tone and pitch is everything when learning this languageCNN With thousands of Chinese firms operating on the continent, some African companies like IMS are learning Chinese business etiquette to get an edge on the competition and help close deals.
Aime Maestracciadded this to EnglishUniversity of Illinois Gestures help students learn new words in different languages, study findsphys.org January 30, 2019 by Sharita Forrest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Students' comprehension of words in a foreign language improves if …
Crystal D'Andreaadded this to A Plethora of EverythingLanguage Lack of understanding over impact of learning a language, MSPs toldthenational.scot - National Newsdesk THERE is a lack of understanding in Scottish schools about how learning a language can help pupils improve their literacy, MSPs have been …
HHelen McKissockadded this to TOKFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoLanguage Language and culture go hand in hand for Yorta Yorta woman Ebony Joachim - ABC Lifeabc.net.au My language is Yorta Yorta which was and is spoken by the majority of the clan groups within the Yorta Yorta Nation. It was in 2013 that I was first …
CNNadded this to Top StoriesCelebrity News The 'Game of Thrones' language that 1.2M people are learningCNN - Jacopo Prisco, CNN(CNN) — "Dracarys!" says Daenerys Targaryen to Drogon, her young dragon, ordering him to spit fire on an incredulous enemy who gets torched alive. This scene from the third season of "Game of Thrones"
Language Over 1 million signed up to learn GOT languageiheart.com - woai.iheart.com Over a million people have signed up to learn a fictional language created for Game of Thrones. The language Valyrian is used in pivotal scenes of …
Learning GOT Fans Are Learning Valyrianiheart.com - Nathalie Rodriguez Over a million people have signed up to learn a fictional language created for Game of Thrones. The language Valyrian is used in pivotal scenes of …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWestern Sydney Western Sydney University champions research into multilingual classrooms | Western Sydney Universitywesternsydney.edu.au - www.westernsydney.edu.au Western Sydney University has undertaken pioneering research into multilingualism in Western Sydney classrooms. This innovative and systematic study …
BBC CapitalBritish Council Can technology help you lose an accent?BBC Capital - By Farah KhaliqueThe trick to losing a heavy accent and imitating native English speakers may lie in re-training the brain to hear new frequencies, writes Farah Khalique. German tennis star Alexander Zverev's struggle
