To abandon your native tongue and adopt another is to dismantle yourself, piece by piece, and then to put yourself together again in a different form (NYT )
English may be the language of science, but students learn better and contribute more when taught in their local tongue, says Giovanni Tapang,associate professor at the National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines.
The editors of the German Duden dictionary added 5,000 words to the 26th edition, many of them English or of English origin. Some Germans aren't happy (NYT Op-ed)
Cheers', 'all best', 'warm regards' - having to choose the best way to sign off an email is a minefield. Which one do you use for what occasion? (Guardian)
Cheers', 'all best', 'warm regards' - having to choose the best way to sign off an email is a minefield. Which one do you use for what occasion? (Guardian)
Is including Russell Brand in the reading list a "rubbish" idea or total genius? Tell us what you think should be on the reading list for UK language and literature course (Guardian Blog)
Is including Russell Brand in the reading list a "rubbish" idea or total genius? Tell us what you think should be on the reading list for UK language and literature course (Guardian Blog)
Every college in America should make it a requirement to study abroad. Why study Spanish in a classroom in Indiana when you could learn it in Bolivia? (NT Times, op-ed)
Every college in America should make it a requirement to study abroad. Why study Spanish in a classroom in Indiana when you could learn it in Bolivia? (NT Times, op-ed)
The White House has increasingly excluded news photographers from Obama's official events and is instead releasing images taken by in-house photographers, who are government employees.