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Carey Mulligan and Mariah Carey among the winners at Spirit Awards Daily Mail - Mar 06, 2010 ReutersIt's somewhat amusing that an English language picture should win a foreign language award, but perhaps English as spoken in England comes across as a Independent Spirit Awards Previewall 856 news articles »

UNDERGRADUATE Profiles BusinessWeek - Mar 05, 2010 The International English Language Language Testing System (IELTS) is also acceptable. A score of 7 or higher is preferred. Although we do not require  - -all 105 news articles »

YouTube Launches Auto-Caption For All English-Language Videos NPR (blog) - Mar 04, 2010 Telegraph.co.ukFrom now on, when you put a video up on YouTube it will get captions. "This is huge. It's what I dreamt of for years," said Ken Harrenstein, YouTube plans to caption most videos automaticallyYouTube adds automatic captioning to videosYouTube Reaches Out to Deaf Audience - -all 349 news articles »

DVD Extra: Peter Lorre's long-lost English-language debut New York Post (blog) - Mar 04, 2010 DVD Extra: Peter Lorre's long-lost English-language debutNumerous sources, both in print and on the interwebs, say that Peter Lorre's English-language film debut was in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too and more »

From adieu to hello Malaysia Star - Mar 06, 2010 Henry Kalanzi claims the 45 teachers he is training can now “communicate, organise some dialogue on their own and prepare lessons in the English language. Language council steals page from PQ playbookall 3 news articles »

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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Bookslut - Mar 01, 2010 Secondly -- the more self-involved reason -- I was a Russian literature major in college, and reading Batuman's account of her life as a student of that

Russian professor declares memory war on Eastern Europe RT - Mar 01, 2010 A Russian literature professor has won the largest grant ever awarded by Cambridge University in the humanities domain - over $1 million.

€1m grant for Professor of Russian Literature Varsity Online - Feb 26, 2010 Dr Alexander Etkind, Fellow at King's College and a Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of Slavonic Studies, was recently

The Possessed Christian Science Monitor - Feb 22, 2010 Plain Dealer takes us on an unconventional odyssey through the world of Russian literature in search of “direct relevance to lived experience, especially to love. '' by Elif Batuman offers fresh perspective on Russian literary all 2 news articles »

Are Democratic Presidents Smarter Than Republican Presidents? Politics Daily (blog) - Mar 01, 2010 (The word is "svoboda"; it's quite well attested in Russian literature.) Ronald Reagan said that intercontinental ballistic missiles . . . could be recalled and more »

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Is Arabic a dying language? MinnPost.com - Feb 24, 2010 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Last fall, only five new students enrolled in the Arabic language and literature program at the United Arab

OCCC to offer Arabic this spring Pioneer Online - Feb 24, 2010 Without any discernable Middle Eastern accent, she reminisced about her time there and why she feels learning about Arabic culture and language is so

Arabic-language flashcards don't fly with TSA Los Angeles Times - Feb 13, 2010 Arabic-language flashcards don't fly with TSAProfessors describe George as an excellent student in science and Arabic. "He's sharp and he's really interested in the language, interested in the culture. Traveler held with Arabic flash cards sues policeTraveler held with Arabic flash cards sues policeSoCal Student Sues Over Arabic Flashcards - -all 296 news articles »

In US mosques, a debate over English Washington Post - Feb 20, 2010 GulfNewsThe language of obligatory Friday prayers, called juma, is not part of the debate; those prayers must be in Arabic, the language of the Quran. Debate over use of English emerging in US mosquesall 61 news articles »

Half of Twitter tweets not in English, study finds Los Angeles Times (blog) - Feb 24, 2010 Several other languages, including Arabic and Italian, make up the remaining 17% of non-English tweets. Semiocast found that non-native English speakers and more »

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Learn Russian: Audio for scenario 1, meeting people The Guardian - Feb 09, 2010 Guardian home exchange allows you to swap homes and like a local all over the world.

Coming in from the cold The Guardian - Feb 09, 2010 People used to learn Russian because they liked Russia's politics. Now it's simply a great language for anyone who likes culture, food and people Moscow

Will Americans Really Learn Chinese? New York Times (blog) - Feb 07, 2010 While language fads come and go — there was Russian during the cold war, then Japanese in the 1980's, then Arabic after 9/11 — thousands of public schools and more »

Leon Aron: Can Medvedev emulate Gorbachev? Los Angeles Times - Feb 09, 2010 The Russian president has repudiated key tenets of Putinism, but Putin is ignoring him. By Leon Aron The security of the United States continues to be tied and more »

Struggle goes on to bring a Russian revolution to Scots classrooms Scotsman (subscription) - Feb 09, 2010 "It is a crying shame so few pupils learn Russian - there are so many options to use it. It is a very misunderstood language - you ask kids what their

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