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Australia 'Must Boost' Asian Language Learning
Jakarta Globe
Analysts, foreign policy experts, political and business leaders have warned that the lack of foreign language skills — particularly Asian languages — is likely to hurt Australia's economy and limit its interaction with China and other regional ...

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A language in Nepal has only one speaker
Times of India
But as they began settling in villages about 60 or 70 years ago, the nomadic tribe dispersed to different parts of the country and stopped speaking in Kusunda even among themselves because of the stigma attached to the language, according to Madhav ...


Workers told, ditch local languages for English
CNN
Airbus, Daimler-Chrysler, Nokia, Renault, Samsung and Microsoft Beijing have all mandated English as their corporate language, writes Neeley in the May 2012 edition of Harvard Business Review -- and she says more than 70 Danish companies have now ...

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Telegraph.co.uk

Can being bilingual make you smarter?
Telegraph.co.uk
For many years we've heard conflicting views on children being exposed to second languages. For all the studies demonstrating that a young child picks up a foreign language more easily than at any other point in their life, there have been the ...

 


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