Less than a year after he stepped down amid a banking scandal, Yves Leterme became Belgium's prime minister for the second time on ...
Increasing numbers of radical Islamic Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message in English Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message ...
This Nov. 10, 2009 photo taken in Madison, Wis., shows, from left, University of Wisconsin-Madison linguists Eric Raimy, Joe Salmons and Thomas Purnell. The three are authors of a research paper to be published in the Journal of English Linguistics next month ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britons love to travel to exotic destinations, but don't expect them to speak the local lingo, a new study reveals. The survey by online travel service travelsupermarket.com showed that more than half of Brits going abroad on holiday ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao right, hands one of 5000 Chinese dictionaries that China donated to the Nanyang Girls' High School in Singapore, Friday, Nov.13, 2009. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool) Copyright 2009 AP News
DHAKA (Reuters Life!) - Bangladeshis seeking to learn English and better their job prospects abroad need not look further than their mobile phone, which will feature brief lessons conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) The audio and SMS-based learning program is ...
Associated Press announces changes in Latin American, Caribbean operations The Associated Press on Wednesday announced changes in its Latin America and Caribbean operations, closing a service limited to Puerto Rican news within Puerto Rico while adding editors and reporters elsewhere for the ...
This photo taken Nov. 5, 2009 shows a Walgreens drugstore with bilingual signs in Chicago's Greektown. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) Copyright 2009 AP Features
LatAm Indians struggle to keep identity, native tongues alive In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his ...
ADVANCE FOR NOV. 9; map of Latin America shows number of indigenous languages by country Copyright 2009 AP News
Wassucks, ommucks and drangways -- where are they now? A dictionary publisher is trying to find out in a quest to trace English dialect words which have faded from use. Collins is trying to work out when such regional words died out ...
FBI needs more linguists to interpret foreign languages in terrorist and criminal probes When the FBI conducts counterterrorism operations and criminal investigations, it gathers substantial material written or uttered in a foreign language. Digesting that material requires sufficient interpreters who can translate ...
