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Opinion: DEA Just Being Practical With Ebonics Job Posting

(Aug. 25) -- It's a new week and thus, people need something fresh to get angry over. Enter the latest flap over news that the Drug Enforcement Agency is looking for experts in Ebonics -- a controversial term used to describe slang referred to as "black English" -- to help with its investigations. Cue the jeers and...

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Rosetta Stone Acquires Kid-Focused Language-Learning Startup GoGo Lingo

Rosetta Stone , for those unfamiliar, are the makers of the oft-advertised language learning software of the same name.

GADLING

A Traveler In The Foreign Service: Get Paid To Learn Languages

Typically, FSO's aren't allowed to take vacation days during language training and the training itself certainly isn't like being on holiday.

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06/03/12 Task force to examine Steamboat high school foreign... Source: The Steamboat Pilot & Today - Steamboat Springs CO Steamboat Springs The Steamboat Springs School District's world languages program could look, and sound, very different after next school year.
06/02/12 UNISSA Concludes Arabic & English Language Pre-Course Source: Brudirect.com The Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language learning, Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali (UNISSA) concluded its three-month intensive pre-session course yesterday at the Silver Jubilee Hall of UNISSA, Gadong.
06/02/12 Job Seekers & Jobs Available - by Fluency School of... Source: Budapest Sun Native English Teachers required for British-owned language school in central Budapest, for intensive 3-week summer courses in June, July, August 2012.
06/01/12 Students outclass rivals in language competition Source: Seven News Ltd A small school in Tasmania's north-east is celebrating after its students won part of a global online language competition.
06/01/12 One Laptop Per Child Partners with Little Pim to... Source: TMCnet One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit whose mission is to provide every child access to new channels of learning and self-expression, and Little Pim , the award-winning foreign language learning program for children, announced today a partnership to bring Lim Pim content to the XO laptop.

Background on languages

Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication.

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