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May
15, 2007
Native
speakers fill an increasingly significant portion of college-level
language classes at Stanford, according to members of various foreign
language departments.
Spanish
Prof. Lisa Surwillo reports that nearly one-quarter of all graduating
Spanish majors come from a Spanish-speaking background. More...
Brazilian
author, Paulo Coelho, the all-time best selling Portuguese language
author, has a new passion -- the Internet. More...
What I
am seeing is a big transition over to the same use of Spanglish,
not only in our every day lives, but now a lot of our new young
artists are also using more in their music. If you listen to a lot
of our artists, they are really bringing out some HOT music, and
not only doing it in Spanish and English, but Spanglish as well.
I have always felt that we can grow this genre if we use this to
our advantage.
More...
May
14, 2007
Second
language can provide edge on job. Some industries are looking for
bilingual workers. More...
"Portugal,
Focus of This Summer's Smithsonian Exhibition Remains a Land to
Discover. Portugal in 1500 had about 1.3 million people. Today,
Portuguese is the seventh most spoken language in the world with
more than 170,000,000 speakers. Portuguese forts, red tile roofs,
music, words, and faces can be found from Africa to India to Malaysia
to China. More...
May
13, 2007
If
we take into account the impact of Spanish in the media, academia,
commerce, religious institutions and popular culture it becomes
clear how it has become once again the language of empire with the
significant difference that this empire is being extended without
the use of military force, genocide or the usurpation of land. It
is an empire of peace and good will, which benefits both the conqueror
and the conquered. More...
May
04, 2007
A medical
doctor from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, Júlio
Doin Vieira released the "Dictionary of Arabic Terms of the
Portuguese Language", which reveals the origins of several
words used in everyday life in Brazil. He spent two years leaning
over dictionaries to research the subject. More...
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