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Shanghai Laments Loss of TV Show in Local Dialect - 0 views

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    The show, which focused on traditional life and culture and was presented in the Shanghai dialect, collided with government guidelines that nationally broadcast programs use only Mandarin.
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BBC News - Koreas: Joint dictionary aims to bridge cultural divide - 0 views

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    North and South Korea work on a joint dictionary to reunite a common language divided by different political systems.
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    North and South Korea work on a joint dictionary to reunite a common language divided by different political systems.
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Stephen Fry shares his love of language in Fry's Planet Word - 0 views

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    Review of TV series Planet Word
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Henrik Ibsen: the demon inside A Doll's House - 1 views

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    Guardian article. Three new Ibsen productions suggest our fascination with the sage of Skien hasn't waned. What keeps us so enthralled?
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Spoken Kosal - 1 views

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    KOSAL KHIEV IS A POET, TATTOO ARTIST, AND SURVIVOR OF THE US PRISON SYSTEM
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A View From the Melting Pot: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez - 1 views

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    Robert Rodriguez's memoir, "The Hunger of Memory" (1982) is an account of his painful separation from the Spanish-speaking world of his family in his journey to becoming a fully assimilated American.
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Con Respeto, I am Not Richard Rodriguez by Norma Mota-Altman - 0 views

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    Essay by a bilingual teacher about "English only" policies. See also "A View from the melting pot", an interview with Robert Rodriguez
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Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and the rejection of the private self - 0 views

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    Analysis of Rodriguez's The Hunger of Memory by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (chapter from US Latino Literature)
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Aria: A memoir of a bilingual childhood by Richard Rodriguez - 1 views

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    autobiographical essay about growing up in a Spanish-speaking family in California.
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Does the future of education lie in bilingualism? Is it even possible? - 0 views

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    TED conversation about bilingual education. Question and discussion forum.
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Anne Hathaway: In defense of the happy girl - 0 views

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    article about media images of women
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WTF Spoken Word on Asian-American names - 1 views

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    Spoken word performance by Fong Tran in response to a Texas state representative, Betty Brown, who suggested that Asian Americans should make their names "easier for Americans to deal with".
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Mother Tongue by Amy Tan - 0 views

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    Amy Tan's essay about her mother's 'tongue'
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Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffmann - 0 views

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    Excerpts from Eva Hoffman. (1989). Lost in translation: A life in a new language. New York: Penguin Books.
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Lost in translation, by Eva Hoffman - 0 views

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    Review of Hoffman's book from International Association of Conference Interpreters.
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Eva Hoffmann's Lost in Translation - 0 views

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    Academic paper by Suzanne Stern-Gillet, University of Bolton
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Wired for Books interview with Amy Tan - 0 views

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    audio interview with Amy Tan, author of 'The Joy Luck Club', about the relationships between four Chinese mothers and their Chinese-American daughters
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Search for My Tongue by Sujata Bhatt - 0 views

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    Video
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Around in the world in English 1. English in Spain. A Cultural Question. - 1 views

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    English as global language. Why English? Robert Herington. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
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The complicated Chinese family tree - 1 views

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