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Foreign languages become popular - 0 views

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    A great influx of foreign tourists and foreign investors in Cambodia has brought people to want to learn a foreign language.
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Seeing Pictures of Home Can Make It Harder To Speak a Foreign Language - 0 views

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    Study shows immersion is the best way to become fluent in a foreign language
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Pupils to be taught English as foreign language - Telegraph - 0 views

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    All pupils at City of Leeds School will study English as a foreign language – even those of British birth (Telegraph)
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    All pupils at City of Leeds School will study English as a foreign language – even those of British birth (Telegraph)
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Why learn a foreign language? Benefits of bilingualism - 0 views

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    Learning a foreign language is more than just a boost to your CV or handy for travelling. It will make you smarter, more decisive and even better at English, says Anne Merritt. Article from Daily Telegraph
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An Alarm Over the Incursion of Foreign Words - 0 views

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    While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
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    While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
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BBC News - Firms ignore the foreign language internet at their peril - 2 views

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    Only 25% of the world speaks English - so businesses ignore the foreign language internet their peril.
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Foreigners appreciate Khmer language - 0 views

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    Although it's not essential for foreigners living in Cambodia, learning the local language can help with work, studies and socialising.
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Beijing's call to ban foreign words in Chinese media meets with mocking satire | South... - 0 views

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    The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.
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    The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.
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US Census Bureau Language Mapper - 0 views

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    Map that shows where in the United States people speak certain foreign languages
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A-level languages: is Britain at risk of turning into a nation of monoglots? - 0 views

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    As the learning of foreign languages at A-level and university falls sharply, the British seem set on isolation from the world (Guardian)
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Language skills: way to get a job? - 0 views

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    Universities should do more to help students learn languages while studying, says Settit Beyene (blog)
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Bid in France to Add Courses in English Raises Fear for Language - 0 views

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    An effort to draw more foreign students to French universities has led to worries about "Americanization disguised as globalization."
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Sprechen Sie Denglish? - 0 views

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    All languages are enriched by borrowing foreign words. But some believe that, with the international spread of English, the process has gone too far. Can the Germans, the French and others halt the Anglo-Saxon tide?
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Language is Music - 0 views

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    Response to a Times editorial by Lawrence Summers, the former president of Harvard, in which he suggested that the study of foreign languages at the university level was not necessarily crucial going forward
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Is Britain becoming a nation of accent snobs? - 0 views

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    Erica Buist: As an accent coach I increasingly hear from people sidelined because they sound foreign (Comment is Free, Guardian.com)
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    Erica Buist: As an accent coach I increasingly hear from people sidelined because they sound foreign (Comment is Free, Guardian.com)
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Disney's Frozen - "Let It Go" Multi-Language Full Sequence - YouTube - 0 views

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    Disney's Frozen in several different languages spliced together.
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Africa Needs English (English Version).wmv - YouTube - 0 views

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    An organisation that pushes for English to be adopted as the first foreign language of African nations.
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What's it like to study Mandarin? - 1 views

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    Chinese isn't a language you absorb through osmosis (Blog)
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