tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.comments2023-10-29T11:23:46.669+00:00LLAS News BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-21668121597371436592013-02-19T21:55:17.465+00:002013-02-19T21:55:17.465+00:00The UK is definitely suffering from a major defici...The UK is definitely suffering from a major deficit when it comes to learning new languages. Check out this article from the FT on how recruiters are increasingly looking at language skills in hiring decisions: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0daedf38-16af-11e2-b1df-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2AKo5CNDIPajama Tutors Language Learninghttp://www.pajamatutors.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-36608533854317418672012-03-30T11:06:11.795+01:002012-03-30T11:06:11.795+01:00What synchonicity.I also posted this link about th...What synchonicity.I also posted this link about the truly fabulous photographs of the old Russian Empire (pre-Bolshevism that is!)on my website the other day. What is fascinating about these photographs is that they are in colour. A process that the photographer developed himself. Take a walk back in time. Just take a few minutes of your time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-67541854307839282732012-03-28T16:55:22.838+01:002012-03-28T16:55:22.838+01:00This model of language learning was successfully p...This model of language learning was successfully pioneered by the Esperanto movement. This was largely out of necessity because the language was not being taught in schools or other educational establishments. It remains true today, 125 years after Esperanto started life, that Esperanto speakers gather in cafes and pubs to use the language. Even where they have their own club house, drinks and snacks are needed by people who have left work early or have to travel some distance. I have met Esperanto speakers in these environments in Hamburg, Milan (in a pizzeria!), Trieste, Douala. The Cardiff Esperanto speakers get together regularly in The Prince of Wales in that city. See http://esperantocardiff.wordpress.com/<br />This is certainly a model worth developing for other languages.Bill Chapmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-18706235576591132402012-03-28T14:00:29.042+01:002012-03-28T14:00:29.042+01:00The fundamental theory for voice identification re...The fundamental theory for voice identification rests on the premise that each voice is individually characteristic enough to differentiate it from others through voiceprint analysis.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.helik.in" rel="nofollow">forensic india </a>Abid khanhttp://www.helik.innoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-90635276591458218792012-03-02T15:51:17.335+00:002012-03-02T15:51:17.335+00:00Prof. Phillipson in a recent video keynote (new) d...Prof. Phillipson in a recent video keynote (new) discusses and number of the arising issues and challenges available fromHuw Jarvishttp://www.tesolacademic.org/huwjarviseditor.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-71076620574644643352012-02-14T11:42:42.651+00:002012-02-14T11:42:42.651+00:00In response to: "‘What kind of expert are you...In response to: "‘What kind of expert are you, if you can’t communicate your research to absolutely anyone? Being able to communicate is not dumbing down." I completely agree, but this does not demand twitter - the medium is not the message!<br />Here's another way of doing the same thing: <br />http://dissertationhaiku.wordpress.com/<br />Your dissertation as a Haiku!Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06112673395845275395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-82777939885522675712012-02-09T14:23:59.401+00:002012-02-09T14:23:59.401+00:00I have spotted this review of the E-learning Sympo...I have spotted this review of the E-learning Symposium By Benoit Guilbaud and wanted to share it with you:<br /><br />Day 1: http://benguilbaud.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/llas-e-learning-symposium-2012-day-1/<br /><br />Day 2: http://benguilbaud.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/llas-e-learning-symposium-2012-day-2/Laurence Georginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15832145556973165416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-39532333008233552712011-10-11T09:41:33.704+01:002011-10-11T09:41:33.704+01:00This is a well-written post. Very informative and ...This is a well-written post. Very informative and comprehensive information on languages. A lot of people interested on a benefit from your post. Great job!<br /><br />livaaffordable patent translation serviceshttp://www.affordableinterpreters.com/patent-services.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-80975398642085759152011-07-07T10:27:55.384+01:002011-07-07T10:27:55.384+01:00"It is time to move forward and discuss the s..."It is time to move forward and discuss the subject of a common international language, taught worldwide, in all schools and in all nations. As a native English speaker, my vote is for Esperanto."<br /><br />That's idiotic. It should be a real language that millions already know. English is the only choice.Retnannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-35084825397181357572011-06-14T14:05:49.220+01:002011-06-14T14:05:49.220+01:00Is there any language provision?Is there any language provision?nick byrnehttp://www.lse.ac.uk/languagesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-3856777217707173672011-06-02T16:18:26.610+01:002011-06-02T16:18:26.610+01:00I do not know if you have listened to the sample f...I do not know if you have listened to the sample from the Collins Paul Noble courses. It seems amazing that a reputable publisher will publish something that is actually incorrect. The French one for example gives 'you have' as 'vous/avez' - no liaison ie. simply incorrect. But this may not be surprising, given that the author's English is bizarre: 'you haven't forgot it', he says on the tape. Of course, it is good to see something simple that will bring learners to a taster of a language - but did it really have to be inaccurate?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-26702105610631813352011-05-06T16:24:58.811+01:002011-05-06T16:24:58.811+01:00Mr Wright claims that the cuts will not affect tea...Mr Wright claims that the cuts will not affect teaching. Perhaps not, but they do illustrate the institution's stance regarding Gaelic. Gaelic is used for window dressing in UHI, as their antipathy to the term "OGE" (Gaelic for "UHI") shows.UHI Staff Membernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-10146346214086460492011-04-17T13:39:06.891+01:002011-04-17T13:39:06.891+01:00Spanish and Latin American Studies, which had been...Spanish and Latin American Studies, which had been reduced to a Jont option only in the Cost Improvement Plan in 2009, is also deleted from september 2011. All That is left of languages is Applied Translation... and the IWLP is awaiting its own review.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-13762617483096981392011-04-15T12:17:15.192+01:002011-04-15T12:17:15.192+01:00For clarification. The posts were admin and suppor...For clarification. The posts were admin and support roles - not teaching roles or researchers. Like all universities we are seeking to protect, as far as we can, funding to 'front-line' teaching and research in the face of substantial cuts to our funding. Unfortunately we have had to make these and other savings as a consequence. None of this will impact in any way on our Gaelic-language and Gaelic-medium teaching or Gaelic-related research.<br /><br />Martin J Wright<br />University of the Highlands and IslandsMartin J Wrightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-42410766026504447332011-02-19T15:46:30.443+00:002011-02-19T15:46:30.443+00:00Is Arabic not neglected?
It is true and widely ac...Is Arabic not neglected?<br /><br />It is true and widely accepted as being true - that a student who has learned another language is more likely to appreciate and have greater cross culture understanding if they were to learn another language. A lot of the times it shows that things can be said and done differently.<br />Whether someone is interested in learning Arabic for educational or cultural reasons or simply because they want to impress a friend, it is easier than one may think. Arabic is fourth most prevalent language after Chinese, Spanish and English, it is the official language in 22 countries, spoken by more than 250 million people. It is also the second language in many Islamic countries because It is considered the spiritual language of Islam -one of the world's major religions- (we're talking here about more than 1.2 billion people). It is one of the permanent languages in the United Nations. <br /><br />Many people know that men and women usually do not shake hands in Arab cultures. Few people know however, that it is considered normal for people of the same gender to hold hands. You may have heard that the Arabic script is read from right to left, but did you also know that numbers run from right to left just like Western numbers?<br /><br />One can learn about all this and much more with the language course Online (Arabic-Online.co.uk), which means live, interactive online Arabic lessons 1-2-1 or in small groups. <br /><br />The teachers demonstrate that Arabic is not so difficult to learn as often said. The course is accessible to everyone and will soon be available in a number of different languages, currently teachers speak English, Spanish and French. <br /><br />Arabic Online<br />http://www.arabic-online.co.ukArabic Ustazhttp://www.arabic-online.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-17400126643614864662010-11-18T15:44:48.371+00:002010-11-18T15:44:48.371+00:00Please help us to save the British Council Languag...Please help us to save the British Council Language Assistantship Scheme!<br /><br />Just sign the petition and pass it on to anyone who is willing to listen:<br /><br />http://www.petitiononline.com/BCLA2010/petition.htmlBCLA2010http://www.petitiononline.com/BCLA2010/petition.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-1013501185406207182010-10-27T10:12:06.759+01:002010-10-27T10:12:06.759+01:00In response to this article the British Council ha...In response to this article the British Council has informed us the Department of Education has not announced the suspension of the Languages Assistants programme.John Canninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794393782717317466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-77477308055014841822010-10-07T23:58:19.929+01:002010-10-07T23:58:19.929+01:00Your readers may be interested in the campaign to ...Your readers may be interested in the campaign to save endangered and dying languages by the World Esperanto Association. This association enjoys consultative relations with UNESCO.<br /><br />The commitment to this aim was made, by the World Esperanto Association at the United Nations' Geneva HQ in September.<br />http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7vD9kChBA&feature=related <br /><br />If you have time please see http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a translator with the United Nations in Geneva.<br /><br />The argument for Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.netBrian Barkerhttp://www.esperantolobby.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-82643741942006663662010-09-28T12:28:00.024+01:002010-09-28T12:28:00.024+01:00Dear John
Perhaps some of these online resources ...Dear John<br /><br />Perhaps some of these online resources will encourage people to learn languages more....well, we can always hope!<br /><br />http://bit.ly/aC6enn<br /><br />Best wishes<br /><br />Angela Joyce<br />Virtual Training Suite<br />http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01591531890767004980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-13730869309106964942010-06-29T18:18:29.398+01:002010-06-29T18:18:29.398+01:00A discount flyer is available here
http://www.ear...A discount flyer is available here<br /><br />http://www.earthscan.co.uk/Portals/0/pdfs/Sustainability_Education.pdfJohn Canninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794393782717317466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-66631763974575436472010-06-18T00:02:22.602+01:002010-06-18T00:02:22.602+01:00Chris Bryant raises the question on which language...Chris Bryant raises the question on which language should be taught in British schools.<br /><br />I see that President Obama wants everyone to learn another language, however which one should it be? <br /><br />The British learn French, the Australians study Japanese, and the Americans prefer Spanish. Yet this leaves Russian, Mandarin Chinese and Arabic, out of the equation.<br /><br />It is time to move forward and discuss the subject of a common international language, taught worldwide, in all schools and in all nations. As a native English speaker, my vote is for Esperanto.<br /><br />Please look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670. A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.netBrian Barkerhttp://www.esperantolobby.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-4893874767625444892010-03-20T19:15:56.998+00:002010-03-20T19:15:56.998+00:00No Boris, Esperanto is better.
Five British schoo...No Boris, Esperanto is better.<br /><br />Five British schools have started teaching this new language. See http://www.springboard2languages.org/pilots.htm<br /><br />As far as the learning of other languages, including English, can I also point out the propaedeutic values of Esperanto :)<br /><br />Please check at http://www.lernu.net or http://eurotalk.com/en/store/learn/esperantoBrian Barkerhttp://www.esperantolobby.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-59147294300022507092009-08-28T17:14:42.022+01:002009-08-28T17:14:42.022+01:00Sadly, all the evidence points to a decline in the...Sadly, all the evidence points to a decline in the uptake of languages rather than them holding steady.<br /><br />I don't see any evidence of serious work in primary schools which might change the situation in six or sevven years.Bill Chapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12810992711601197508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-63101336838036841252009-07-03T22:42:35.276+01:002009-07-03T22:42:35.276+01:00Prefer the blog!Prefer the blog!lynneguisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171345732985610861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025892912300294385.post-50536149491059662162009-04-28T23:06:00.000+01:002009-04-28T23:06:00.000+01:00The solution is through Ardano language.
Yes we ca...The solution is through Ardano language.<br />Yes we can gather ourselves to help endangered languages.<br />And I can explain.<br /><br /><br />The number of dying languages in the coming two centuries scares me a lot. It's like losing the icebergs in the poles because of global warming Nobody wants to watch losing our nature or its diversity.<br />The same thing we can see in Ardano. Any Ardanist will be very close to all the languages in the world as one group ,because Ardano contains words from all languages. Losing even hundreds from thousands is very scary to anyone who loves languages.<br />Ardano wants a stable number of living languages , we hope that all the 6912 living languages are protected . This number was the choice of Ardano from the beginning.<br /><br />Ardano is the language that uses documented words from all languages , therefor even after the language extinction Ardano speakers will still speak those words , At least ,with Ardano the momory of endangered languages will never die.<br /><br />We don't need just to document endangered languages ,but also to keep their communities within the circle of their language. We should give them an easy international language to communicate with the foreign world ,while this communicating language and its community keep both eyes on the status of that small language .<br /><br /><br />Ardano is like a simple indicator for what is happening to the world's languages. The only thing that I could do as a person is to keep the memory of those languages at least in the dictionary or the wonderful Ardano poems and eventually in the hearts of Ardanists. We want to do more in protecting endangered languages ,but unfortunately we don't have a big community like some very old conlangs.<br /><br />What is interesting in Ardano community is that it is the nearest conlang community to the problem of endangered languages. In addition the person who chose Ardano is a person who have no objection about the presence of small languages in the world language, Therefore he or she is more likely to protect those languages. . This could make any Ardano community more active and effective linguistically than any other conlang community<br /><br />Ardano will put the problem of losing the natural languages under the spotlight . Increasing the support for Ardano will increase the interested people in protecting the weak languages.<br /><br />Of course a helpful conlang community which is in constant touch with all languages in the world is by far much better for the cultural and the linguistic world. <br /><br />Ardano is not just the participation of words from small languages.<br /><br />Not just the regularity and easiness of Ardano are important ,although they can help enriching the small languages through the easiness of translations from the world language. But it will be an encouragement for that endangered language community knowing that some words in the world language came from their language. They will feel the global importance of their language. Anyone would be happy after knowing that the whole world is using even few words from his\her language. <br /><br />Ardano is a meeting place for co-operative people who love languages and who took the first step towards protecting small languages ,by supporting a worldlang that recognize the presence and the rights of all languages . This gathering of people will make them even stronger and more effective in the participation of endangered languages protection. Ardano has words from all languages ,and any language facing the danger of extinction will turn on the alarm in the Ardano community .<br /><br /><br />Using a world language with words from all around the world will give a chance for many people to build personal contacts with those natural languages. Personally before Ardano I was hearing about the problem of endangered languages and I wished to help ,but I was not motivated like I am now. Because now I speak words from those languages. The problem of endangered languages touched me more deeper. The words are beautiful just like my mother tongue. Many people would love more languages if they used words from them in everyday life. Many people if they loved other languages would help protecting them. We need to create a conlang community that not just loves the conlang and ignores the others, but we need a community that really loves all natural languages in the world. At least this will be the right beginning.<br /><br /><br />Those big conlangs community officials find themselves talking with emptiness about the linguistic diversity. They say we protect diversity . If there is diversity in their languages then where is my language. I can't find a word from my language and thousands of other languages. Simply they ignored them. There is no need to claim that the auxlang can help linguistic diversity since it lacks the real diversity in the first place. <br /><br /><br />Also, Ardano will give speakers of any bigger language the needed contentedness and relief after knowing that their language is respected and has its role in the global communications . Their language has its portion in Ardano ,and this is like sending a simple message that says they can live peacefully together with different people of the world just like the harmony between different words from different language origins in Ardano . They will feel that the world is based on a relation between equals. I can insure that any feeling about discrimination at least linguistically will simply vanish after the use of Ardano<br /><br />To succeed in convincing the world , the whole world , to use what this movement talked about for more than a century then we need to use something closer to the people , I mean all people. Every person should be happy with the world language ,because he\she is a part of this world . It's our world .<br /><br />In the world cup of any game . All nations play in the qualifiers. Even the most powerful nation in soccer , Brazil , still plays in the qualifications along with very small nations ,because it's the world cup ,not the cup of powerful nations.<br />The UN contains USA and also that very tiny nation. Yes USA has more power in the UN ,and also the powerful languages have an advantage in Ardano ,but without forgetting every single language. That is what we should fight for.<br /><br />I was lucky because I have found this giant library in front of me, the Internet, I was able to create Ardano ,which was in the past an impossible dream . Now we are in the era of globalization ,and we need to take steps to improve with it. We need to change this movement toward the final direction directly towards the goal of so many generations of auxlangers.<br /><br />Ardano besides helping endangered languages , has another big task which is to introduce the fairest and the most neutral a posteriori system in every era ,and this is for better facilitated communications which will help the world in many things including economy ,culture ,and of course protecting the remaining languages. <br /><br />I haven't talked about Neutrality . I mean the real neutrality. And I haven't talked about the principle of the fair language. Or the students on equal footing in a posteriori system . You cannot put all students in an equal footing in a posteriori system ,but Ardano did. So the group of auxlangers who fought for the a priori systems ,now they can join back the a posteriori auxlangers.<br /><br />I really need your help to try, Just to try to change the world , but it will not be any change ,because all what the IAL movement talked about in a century, we will add more new things. If you have joined this movement because of the so many advantages of auxlangs , Now with Ardano you need to put more advantages. First of all Ardano changed me ,because of foreigners reactions when I talk about Ardano in front of them. I say look to that world language that doesn't contain your language ,and look to your language Ardano ,and immediately you see the smile ,and not any smile. This happiness is the thing behind Ardano.<br /><br />It is not just an easy communicating language ,but also it could be the greatest symbol of social justice in everyday life ,if succeeded. And it cannot succeed without your help.<br /><br />The languages of indigenous people along with all European languages . And also all the African and Asian languages. All languages are side by side ,because Ardano is based on two sentences <br />The first ("All languages deserve to be the world language("<br />And the second ("All languages deserve to be learned and spoken("<br />You cannot achieve these two great principles without thinking about Ardano. <br /><br />This is the last equity and equality movement. Do you want to participate?<br /><br /><br />Zeinelabidin Elhassi<br /><br /><br />links to Ardano<br />http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ardano/<br /><br />http://ardano.tripod.com<br /><br />http://ardano.tripod.com/english/id11.html<br /><br />http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ardano/links<br /><br />http://nova-esperanto.blogspot.com/<br /><br />http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ardano/messagesZeinelabidin Elhassinoreply@blogger.com