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Lesson 37 The Germanic LanguagesMost people have heard of the Tower of Babel story in the Bible. According to this story, long ago all people spoke the same language. Later, however, they were punished by speaking a great number of different tongues.
International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is observed every year by member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It started in 1999 with the purpose of promoting linguistic and cultural diversity and
2004 考研英语长难句 5、Being interested in the relationship of language and thought, Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society. 【分析】复合句。句子主干为Who
Names by Katherine Bilsborough Shakespeare told us that a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet. But is that true? Are names important? Are you happy with the name that you were given as a baby? And how do you choose a name for your own child
by Mignon Fogarty I have been deluged with questions about how to pronounce the name of the year. The two main contenders are twenty-ten and two thousand ten. Before the turn of the century, most people pronounced the years by chunking the first two
Message from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the Occasion of the International Day for Tolerance 教科文组织总干事伊琳娜博科娃国际宽容日致辞 16 November 2013 2013年11月16日 The International Day for Tolerance is
Everyday Grammar: Can You Correct 'Her and I?' 日常语法:你能正确使用Her和I? On March 5, Jazmine Hughes wrote in a New York Times blog, Recently, at an IRL party that is, a party that takes place in real life, as opposed to where I generall
The neuroscientists saw multiple areas of the brain light up, 神经科学家看到了脑内多处亮起, simultaneously processing different information in intricate, interrelated, and astonishingly fast sequences. 同时以复杂、互相关联、惊
Hablas espanol? Parlez-vous francais? 你会说西班牙语、法语、中文吗? If you answered, s, oui, or hui 如果你能回答si,oui 或是会, and you're watching this in English, chances are you belong to the world's bilingual and multi
A new map released by the Modern Language Association shows which languages are spoken where in the United States. According to the MLA map, a 33-square-kilometer area south of Los Angeles is one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the coun
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: practice makes perfect. RS: With us from Los Angeles is English teacher Lida Baker to explain a part of grammar that makes English learners tense. AA: It's the verb tense known as
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a map of mother tongues in America. RS: Last week, we told you about americanrhetoric.com, a collection of well-known American speeches. Well, there's something brand new on the W
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: some letters from listeners. RS: From Russia, Natasha writes: A friend of mine went to the US for her summer vacation. She's got 4 years of study at Moscow Linguistic University b
Business 商业 Corporate fraud 公司欺诈行为 Mind your language 谨言慎行 How linguistic software helps companies catch crooks 语言识别软件帮助公司擒获不法之徒 IN THE film Superman 3, a lowly computer programmer (played by Ri
The Asian system is transparent, says Karen Fuson, a Northwestern University psychologist who has done much of the research on Asian-western differences. 亚洲人的计算方法非常直观,一名西北大学的心理学家卡恩弗森(Karen Fus
1. Russians 1、俄罗斯人 Scientists still cannot agree on their origins and answer the question when Russians became Russian. The ancestry of Russians were sought among Normans, Scythians, and Sarmatians, and even the South Siberian Usuns. 俄罗斯
People who struggle to learn foreign languages may simplyhave brains that are not wired to retain linguistic skills, a newstudy suggests. 最新研究表明,学外语比较吃力的人,可能仅仅是因为大脑机制之间缺乏连贯,难以保
Secretary-Generals Message for International Mother Language Day秘书长国际母语日致辞21 February 2014 2014年2月21日 International Mother Language Day celebrates linguistic and cultural diversity alongside multilingualism as a force for pe
The number of American students who learned a language other than English decreased by about 100,000 between 2009 and 2013, according to research by the Modern Language Association. For many, taking a class in economics might seem more beneficial tha
I know what you're thinking. You think I've lost my way, and somebody's going to come on the stage in a minute and guide me gently back to my seat. (Applause) I get that all the time in Dubai. Here on holiday are you, dear? (Laughter) Come to visit t