Downloadable apps for each city, as well as language apps and translation apps.
Large, mature companies like airlines seldom leave something as important as language to chance, Curran says.
The performance also included elements of Portuguese culture, such as language, poetry, and certain musical instruments.
Genes change slowly, over many generations, while the diversity of phonemes amid a population group can change rapidly as language evolves.
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There's also a long-held sentiment that immigrants aren't particularly fruitful recruits for unions, as language barriers and cultural differences make such recruitment difficult.
Also, some arguments against the union (such as language differences) disappear.
Superior mental faculties, such as language and the ability to engage in abstract problem solving, are the sort of explanations that are currently all the rage.
The HPA has put forward a range of recommendations to improve migrant health, including increased diseases surveillance, primary care support, such as language and cultural support, and raising awareness.
Economists in the French Enlightenment (like Jacques Turgot) and the Scottish Enlightenment (like Adam Smith) recognized that essential human institutions such as language, culture, legal customs, mutual aid societies and markets develop spontaneously when governments get out of the way.
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Rankin and her team focused on a a specific type of neurodegenerative disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a group of disorders in which patients can experience behavioral symptoms such as personality changes, a loss of inhibition and social tact as well as language difficulties, such as an inability to understand words.
Hawkins, who will continue to work as chief technical officer of Treo maker palmOne (nasdaq: PLMO - news - people ), already has his own research lab to study the neocortex, a massive part of the brain thought to hold such higher level functions as language, learning, memory and complex thought.
In the same year, a market-research company, Cultural Access, found that young Latinos watched twice as much English-language as Spanish-language television.
Mr Bellos shows that the world is very eager to familiarise itself with English, both as a vehicular language, (routinely used in the corridors of the EU, and in academia for example) and as a literary language.
"In particular, GCSE qualifications in core subjects such as English language are used by learners as either a passport to employment or to further study, " a spokesperson said.
The chips are programmed in the C language as opposed to assembly language, giving them a cost advantage because C developers are far easier to come by, as well as giving the handset makers and mobile operators greater ability to actually define what functions they want on the chips.
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Indeed, he has a reputation as a language appreciator and grammar geek, as well as a voracious questioner with fierce opinions about almost everything.
The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.
Morocco's king, Mohammed VI, announced several reforms, including new parliamentary elections, civic and social equality for women, and recognition of the indigenous Berber language as an official state language along with Arabic.
However, after this programme, I am wondering if people that speak a different language as their "first language" are more aware of the variances of English throughout the UK, US, Australia, Canada, etc.
The delight in the misspelling of the name of another language is also indicative of Farsi-centric chauvinism, lovely as that language is.
Buzakhar said Tamazight's "deep-rooted" history as a native language -- which significantly predated Arabic's arrival in North Africa -- meant that regarding it as anything less than an official language was illogical.
We looked at Costa Rica and Panama first, but both countries speak Spanish as their national language and, as with most South American countries, the legal system was based on Napoleonic law.
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They include ideas such as expanding language and culture training and steps to raise employment.
BC, and became Gallo-Romans as they adopted Roman ways and Latin as their language.
These supports include parenting classes, English as Second Language classes, and job training, to name a few.
The policy refers to the need to protect what are described as sustainable communities as well as Welsh language communities.
In 1066, the Norman invasion established French as the language of government, but it did not dislodge English.
It can be expensive and slow to grow, as the language has the reputation of being very difficult to learn.
In fact, broad adoption of English as the language of commerce is the root of the challenge and opportunity looming.
Key themes for focusing ESD efforts in Tonga were agreed as Tongan language and culture, healthy lifestyles and sustainable livelihoods.
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