Among other brain-related benefits, learning foreign languages appears to improve your memory.Bilinguals see things differently… Bilinguals learn foreign languages more easily than monolinguals… And now, a study suggests that learning foreign lan…
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Everyone says that speaking two languages opens horizons; it may even change the way you think.New research from Newcastle University (UK) suggests that speaking more than one language literally changes the way people see the world. The phenomenon is …
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Everyone says that speaking two languages opens horizons; it may even change the way you think.New research from Newcastle University (UK) suggests that speaking more than one language literally changes the way people see the world. The phenomenon is …
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If you don’t have time to pore over word websites, Oneword is a perfect platform – it doesn’t have much time for you, either.You like words, and would like to channel your inner writer. But you don’t have the time, don’t have the insp…
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Pennsylvania is reaching out to limited English proficiency speakers about a very specific problem: gambling addiction.Blogging about languages and language translation is a continual discovery. Just when you think you’ve covered it all, somethin…
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The provider of online word reference products has opened a new Spanish siteThe popular online word reference tool Dictionary.com has set up a new Spanish channel. Designed especially for learners of the language, in the long-term it will also publish …
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Google is known for encouraging their employees’ creativity to run wild. A new site called “Translation Telephone” is a good example.According to the Programmable Web blog, a Google employee, Pamela White, has created an online version of the pop…
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In the second post of a series about top linguistic sites, we will examine the artistic word site “Wordle.”. A lot of word-oriented sites are all about information, but Wordle is oriented towards creation. Perhaps you don’t recognize the nam…
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Many languages have carried out, or attempted, spelling reforms, but enforcement can prove difficult.Although it hasn’t gotten a lot of English-speaking press, Spanish has undergone a spelling reform as of 2011. Created by the Real Academia Espa&…
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Despite its articles available in many languages, Wikipedia remains Anglo-centric. A Microsoft research team in India is working to change that.Given that high-tech savvy and multilingual communication meet in the sub-continent, it is not surprising th…
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