Of the estimated 6,000 languages spoken on Earth today, one disappears about two weeks. About 3,000 of them are at risk of going extinct, or are already in the final stages of disappearing. This state of fact made some experts consider whether the same could happen to the English language one day. In many respects, E... |
24 October 2011
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A new study finds that language barriers could play an important role in health care disparities, and that people who do not speak English at home, are less likely to receive CRC screenings, compared to those who do speak English at home.The study was carried out by researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Bo... |
29 September 2010
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A licentiate thesis in English from the University of Gothenburg, concluded that because of the globalization process, in many Swedish companies that were sold to owners in other countries, employees are often forced to change their working language from Swedish to English.Vivianne Apelman is the author of this thesi... |
13 September 2010
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On March 08, 2010, The New York Times Knowledge Network announced the release of a new software application designed for iPhone users who want to get a better grasp of their English. Learning English with The New York Times addresses intermediate to advanced English learners. The product engages users in improving th... |
9 March 2010
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In many European countries, adding subtitles in a foreign movie in the native tongue of their residents is a standard norm. Experts who devised this system many years ago said that this would help the masses get to know a second language, by creating associations between the words and the text. But a new investigatio... |
11 November 2009
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It is widely recognized that the English language is in a continuous expansion, adding new words every year to its huge repertoire. What is not known is the fact that many of these new words aren't words at all, but only mere acronyms or abbreviations of common expressions used on social networks. This year'... |
1 September 2009
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Investigators at the Reading University now believe they've discovered the most ancient words in the English language, with the help of a sophisticated computer simulation. The program accounts for the rate of change that has been recorded throughout history for German and other related languages such as English... |
26 February 2009
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So, I've finally got my hands on the remake of the 1994 Sid Meier classic, which still has a place on my hard drive and in my playtime schedule. The first piece of advice is to go for a Marathon or Epic game with a big map to fully get the Colonization experience right.16:00. Whom to play as? The four sides from... |
1 October 2008
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Tired of English? Start learning Spanish, because in less than 25 years, English will be anyway outstripped, as this language of Latin origin is set to go up from the fourth place to the second, behind Chinese. Finally, a soft and musical Romance language instead of a harsh Germanic one. EFE news agency has reported... |
11 August 2007
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Now, we know why English people are so arrogant. Because the plague did not touch the cobby ones. At least the mighty hairy not-so-hygienic Anglo-Saxon warriors were much more genetically diverse than today's Englanders. A new research compared the DNA from ancient and modern English people finding that the coun... |
9 August 2007
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When you hear this, you're going to need some toilet paper close by, as the Unofficial PSP Demo Centre, has just made available 14 free PSP Demo titles. That's right boys and girls, 14 and they're all free.Eleven of them are in Japanese, as Pocketgamer reports. Thus, four English versions remain, for ... |
8 June 2007
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Last month's Game Developers Conference held an impressive number of events, more or less interesting but all game related. Professor Edd Schneider and Kai Zeng, student of Information Communication Technology presented their idea (based on a project that originally ran two years ago), of using MMOs such as Worl... |
5 April 2007
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