Monthly Archives: March 2010
Bilingual Businesses are Booming: Learning Spanish May Be Your Best Career Move or Business Investment
Banks like Wells Fargo and companies like Lind’s Market Financial have gone bilingual, long ago. In 2002, Wells Fargo began to accept Mexican Matricula cards as valid identification to open an account…
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Show students how to use Chinese in their daily lives
A KEY player in the lively debate over changes to how Chinese is taught here is quick to see the funny side when asked about his own adult daughters.
‘My elder daughter is studying English literature and the younger girl is in England studying law,’ says Dr Chin Chee Kuen with a smile, of his children aged 21 and 18…
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Kids learn about lunar calender through trivia, crafts and music
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Learning from speaking- Program promotes communication between many cultures
The Center for International Education at UW-Eau Claire organizes a program called the Cultural Connections Program, which used to be called International Speakers Bureau. This program has existed for more than 20 years and consists of UW-Eau Claire international students who are interested in broadening cultural understanding in the Eau Claire and Chippewa Valley communities. The participants give speeches, presentations and interviews where they share their own perspectives about international topics with others…
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The young speaking in tongues
Something very important is missing from most elementary schools in the United States: language-learning programs. In an ever-globalized world, it seems surprising that we lack this.
Implemented this year, England now deems it mandatory for every child (ages 7-14) to take a modern foreign language…
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