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More Articles from Language Information: MORE RESOURCES: Site: Yahoo! News Search Results for language Indian regional politician withdraws language stir (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News) A regional politician withdrew a campaign Thursday to disrupt movie screenings of India's best known Bollywood family, ending a language spat that saw a premiere of an Amitabh Bachchan movie canceled and a film theater trashed by right-wing activists. Language Web site offers survival kits, other free materials to deploying troops (Fort Leavenworth Lamp) PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center activated its new Language Materials Distribution System Web site July 1, making available hundreds of language survival kits and other materials free of charge to deploying service members. ONLY NATIONAL LANGUAGE FOR KL SIGNS (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News) KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 (Bernama) -- Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will only allow the use of the national language for road signs in the city. Bollywood legend seeks to defuse wife's language row (AFP via Yahoo! News) Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday sought to defuse a simmering language row involving his wife, Jaya, insisting that neither he nor his family would ever insult Marathi speakers. LPGA players address language rule (San Jose Mercury News) South Korea's Se Ri Pak defended the LPGA Tour in the wake of its short-lived plan to suspend players who don't speak English well enough to satisfy sponsors, saying Wednesday that learning the language can benefit rising international stars. Language barrier slows invasion probe (Hamilton Spectator) Hamilton police have called in Vietnamese language interpreters to help unravel what happened during an apparent home invasion yesterday morning. Police say four adults and two children were in a home on Barton Street West at Crooks Street when an altercation erupted around 5 a.m. Watch your language! LPGA veterans defend new policy (Calgary Sun) MOBILE, Ala. -- South Korea's Se Ri Pak defended the LPGA Tour in the wake of its short-lived plan to suspend players who don't speak English well enough to satisfy sponsors, saying yesterday learning the language can benefit rising international stars. Chinese language center draws crowds (People's Daily) People from other parts of the world always are fascinated by China's 5,000 year old cultural tradition. At the Paralympics Village in Beijing, the Chinese Language Center has proven one of the hotspots. The Chinese Language Center has three sections. The middle section is known as the Learn-it-Quickly Zone. It is the most popular among foreigners. With the aid of specially designed computer ... Spanish language magazine aims at professionals (The Sacramento Bee) Tatiana Bedoya celebrated her 33rd birthday last week by officially launching Vixta, a new Spanish-language magazine for greater Sacramento's Latino community. Tatiana Bedoya French-language film fest announces lineup (The North Bay Nugget) The Centre culturel Les Compagnons des francs loisirs will feature a range of movies during its sixth annual French-language film festival. The festival, held in [...] Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (> required at line 14, column 29) in /home/.hellodolly/jsteiner64/scholarlyarticles.org/language/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc on line 238 Site: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/.hellodolly/jsteiner64/scholarlyarticles.org/language/inc/rss.php on line 26 |
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