I’m not sure of the source of this but I received it via email and it made me laugh:
Stunning Break with Last Eight Years
Nov 18 – In the two weeks since the election, US President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, [...]
Europe: Pupils in the European Union are learning foreign languages at a younger age, even as young as three, while English is learnt by 90 per cent of all European pupils at some stage of their compulsory education, according to a study by the Eurydice Network.
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If we stop and think about how the Indian economy is growing, it’s not an unrealistic prospect for Indian English to stake its claim as being the new global Standard English. Pravin Kumar, in an article for the Deccan Herald, looks forward to the widespread use of phrases such as “You only told me like that” [...]
For the uninitiated among you, World of Warcraft (commonly known by the acronym WoW) is a massively popular online multiplayer role-playing game. With somewhere in the region of 11 million monthly subscribers, World of Warcraft is currently the world’s largest massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) and is the holder of the Guinness World Record [...]
Once you’ve started down a particular career path, teaching English being no exception, changing jobs after several years can be difficult and extremely daunting. With this in mind, I wonder how many of you have ever thought about what it could be like to be a part of the bail enforcement industry possibly as a [...]
One thing that we can all relate to in the world of education, especially if you’re involved in the management side of what is increasingly becoming the business of education, is the issue of budgetary control. Keeping a lid on runaway costs for things such as photocopying and printing can be every administrator’s worst nightmare. [...]
Let’s face it, whichever educational institution you happen to be working for, wherever in the world you happen to be, if the issue of budgetary control of photocopying and printing doesn’t rear its ugly head, you have to consider yourself very, very lucky. It’s of course not just everyday printing needs that eat so heavily [...]
The European Day of Languages on 26th September has prompted some to ask whether we need to re-assess the dominance of the English language in Europe, and in the European economy. Should there be a linguistic tax on English speakers?
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English-speaking expatriates and foreign tourists in Yemen can now communicate easily with security forces, thanks to the Ministry of Interior’s initiative to equip their staff with essential language tools by sending them to the Frances Guy Institute (FGI), which is based at the Central Security Forces (CSF) in Sana’a. “The idea of establishing an institute [...]
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