Posts Tagged ‘language’

Tech’s ability to close language gaps deserves cautious support | New Scientist

Wednesday, September 21st, 2016

Tech’s ability to close #language gaps
deserves…support
https://www.NewScientist.com/article/mg22830453-200-techs-ability-to-close-language-gaps-deserves-cautious-support Will Google translate make foreign lang. classes obsolete?

Eat, Pray, Latin – The New Yorker

Friday, August 19th, 2016

Eat, pray, #Latin
http://www.NewYorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/eat-pray-latin “An undead language, a ghost shadowing…our words, a zombie…in sentences,” viz pseudolanguage!

New York City’s French Dual-Language Programs Are Mostly Pointless | New Republic

Sunday, February 23rd, 2014

Let’s Stop Pretending That #French Is an Important #Language. Is it going the way of Latin?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116443/new-york-citys-french-dual-language-programs-are-mostly-pointless via @prashantkhorana

A Teenage Master of Languages Finds Online Fellowship – NYTimes.com

Monday, March 12th, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/nyregion/a-teenage-master-of-languages-finds-online-fellowship.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp