The messages are in an English-language font but in the local language.
Interestingly, this book appeared under a different title in Malaysia (and in the local language, not in English).
Multinational corporations like Intel, Sony and Starbucks have known for decades that employees skilled in the local language and customs are essential to operate successfully in those markets.
In 1996 traditional coastal resource knowledge in Tokelau was documented in the local language.
The contract may be oral, or it may be written in the local language and signed by the chief.
"For some posts, a lack of fluency in the local language will limit the credibility of the post holder, " it said.
Several men in the room talk very fast, in the local language Wolof, and we have no idea what is going on.
In Nabanna, UNESCO and Change Initiatives have join hands to explore innovative uses of databases, intranet portals and web-based partnerships in the local language for the benefit of the poor women of Baduria.
Using a form of text messaging similar to SMS, this sends out up to a million short messages a day, encouraging the recipients in their local language to contact the national AIDS hot line.
Below are the key words or phrases that I always try to learn in the local language before travelling (or you can carry a cheat sheet with you, like the one I used in Paris).
For example, visit most any city in Europe, large or small, and there will be a symbol similar to a target or bull's-eye beside the word "Centro" or "Zentrum, " or however you say downtown in the local language.
Now cooperatives are launching and managing mobile information services, curating information (and delivering it in the relevant local language) for farmers in their network.
In another cut of the data, we recently ranked the findings on four criteria to find the Friendliest Countries: ability to befriend locals, success in learning the local language, capacity for integrating themselves into the community, and ease in which they fit into the new culture.
Each is so named because of their individual markings in the local Ugandan language.
Written in the local Chichewa language, the words were a reference to the vendors carrying out the attacks, organizers said.
She says that many birth parents in Uganda don't fully understand what adoption actually means and that there is no word for 'adoption' in the local Luganda language.
From the arrival platform at roughly 4, 000 metres it takes a couple of hours to hike up to the Pichincha's summit, Rucu ("old person" in the local Quechua language) just below 4, 700 metres.
Advising a local investor in MEDIA industry, a local language Radio, Muga-FM, was established since 2005 through leadership of ACRI.
They were about as likely to ask for the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Bengali, the local language.
Systemic change must begin both from the top down as well as from the ground up, couched in language that local interlocutors are comfortable speaking.
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But Pope Benedict has taken steps to make it easier for priests to say Mass in Latin, rather than their local language, if their more traditionalist congregations demand it.
While Catholic services today are celebrated in local languages, Latin remains the official language of the Roman Catholic church.
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But the change of name comes at a sensitive time in Karnataka, where the government recently went a step further and threatened with closure more than 2, 000 private schools that taught in English, not Kannada, the local language.
For example, InterContinental Hotels and Resorts says that it will once again proactively offer all guests a complimentary edition of a daily local language or international language newspaper delivered each morning to their room starting in 2012.
Apart from TV deals, DC United offers its games on a local Spanish-language radio station in the district.
In Sweden, English language news website The Local strikes a suitably Nordic note, reporting that workmen digging a rail tunnel under Stockholm have found Mjoelnir, the hammer used in Norse mythology by the thunder god Thor.
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As we celebrate Room to Read's tenth anniversary, we can look back on building more than 1, 200 schools and10, 000 libraries, publishing 433 local language children's books in 22 languages and supporting almost 9, 000 girls through our Girls' Education Program.
According to a report by NDCS, 56% of local authorities in England do not provide any sign language services for families while 44% provide various levels of support.
I'm really interested in learning the language and it's good to see articles now being written in Manx in the local newspapers - not that I can understand more than a few words.
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