January 2009

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The Language of Love

by Richard Brooks January 30, 2009 Free Translation

Valentine’s Day is approaching fast, a time when we express our love with cards and presents. Love is honoured on this day throughout the world.

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To Learn a Foreign Language, Listen

by Richard Brooks January 30, 2009 Languages

If you’re struggling with learning a new language, try listening to native speakers. That’s the conclusion of a new study from Victoria University in New Zealand. According to the Daily Mail, researchers have discovered that listening to people talk or sing in a foreign language makes learning that language easier, even if you haven’t the [...]

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Foreign Footballers Face Language Test

by Richard Brooks January 29, 2009 Sport

January can be a stressful month for any British football manager, as the transfer window opens clubs have 31 days in which to sell and buy players. New immigration laws which came in to affect in autumn 2008 will make things even harder.

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Chinese New Year 2009

by Richard Brooks January 26, 2009 Events

Today is Chinese New Year an ancient festival which is celebrated not only in China but around the world. This year is the ‘Year of the Ox’ which symbolises prosperity through fortitude and hard work.

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Cheeseburgery Hamburgers

by Richard Brooks January 26, 2009 Free Translation

After hearing a recommendation that bloggers should use computerised translation to provide foreign language replicas of their own blogs, Tony Barber decided to put Google Translate to the test. I won’t spoil it for you – the full article is here but there is one section that made us laugh for good fifthteen minutes…

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Sell to foreign visitors

by Richard Brooks January 26, 2009 Travel

Everyone is being affected by the recession (which only really started on Friday) but perhaps the most visible is on the high street. Walk down any high street in the UK and it is apparent how hard the retailers are trying to sell their products.

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Lá Nua Closes Its Doors

by Richard Brooks January 23, 2009 Languages

Lá Nua, the only Irish language newspaper published on a daily basis, has closed down due to a lack of funding. Lá Nua, which means “New Day” in Irish, stopped its presses at the end of the year. The newspaper had been in print for more than 20 years, but according to Eurolang.net, there simply [...]

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Chinese Censor Obama

by Richard Brooks January 22, 2009 Politics

This week saw the inauguration of Barack Obama. We thought that the event was admired by people the whole world over… but not true, he did manage to offend someone – the Chinese government. References to both ‘communism’ and ‘dissent’ were deleted from Chinese translations of the newly appointed president’s speech. The Chinese government are [...]

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I Love You in 25 languages

by Richard Brooks January 20, 2009 Free Translation

I Love You in 25 languages… helping you to be extra romantic this Valentine’s Day.

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Star Trek: The next generation of gadgets

by Richard Brooks January 16, 2009 Languages

According to National Geographic, every 14 days another language passes into oblivion. New languages are created at a much slower rate. Usually, new languages evolve naturally from older languages over time. On the other hand, sometimes new languages are simply created from fiction. These languages are called constructed languages. One of the most commonly spoken [...]

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