The Director-General, Irina Bokova, welcomed the initiative to hold the celebration and underlined the outstanding historical contribution of the Arabic language to world civilization.
The pre-eminence of the City as a financial centre and of English as the language of world business are also both vital in pulling in foreign workers.
Handed down over centuries from master to pupil, it is the only whistled language in the world that is fully developed and practised by a large community (more than 22, 000 inhabitants).
"It is an honor and a privilege to preside over the jury of a festival that proves, again and again, that cinema is the language of the world, " Spielberg was quoted as saying in a statement by the Cannes festival organizers.
This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.
Why? because it is the one language of money the world understands and knows the challenges of acquiring.
Seven years later launched television network TV Azteca, now nation's number 2 network and second-largest producer of Spanish-language television in the world.
Suffice it say, these are issues not of the manipulation of language, but how language changes as the world which it express changes.
Language comes at the world from a different angle, more oblique but in its own way just as telling, if you read it right.
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These days Brazil ranks among the countries with the worst English language competency in the world, according to a report released last week by Education First (EF), a worldwide educational company.
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The celebrations for World Arabic Language Day continued with a ceremony to nominate Mr Metin Arditi as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his work with young Israeli and Palestinian musicians through his Instruments for Peace Foundation.
The Abbey event highlighted the book's impact on English language and culture throughout the world.
Beyond calculations of interest, the emotional ties created by a common language and alliances in two world wars are clearly still strong.
The number of specialist announcers on the World Service English language service will shrink and a new management team will work across distribution, channel management and commissioning.
This global influence combined with our stubborn insistence on communicating in English has finished the work begun by Great Britain, elevating our language to primacy around the world.
Google Print also complemented efforts within the company to develop perfect machine language translation, which means that some day a scanned book will theoretically be readable in any language, anywhere in the world.
The language of war is more the world of men than women, as is Wall Street.
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The cash-strapped BBC recently ended its World Service Mandarin-language short-wave broadcasts after 70 years.
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The American language became the richest in the world, because the settlers encountered so many different kinds of people.
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As a result, they are trapped in the language of absolutes, viewing the world only in black and white.
The company's next goal is to develop a video game that would require players to use a native language to survive in a virtual world.
"You are working very closely with people from a different culture, different language, different part of the world but you build common bonds around shared priorities, " Cotton said.
This new program at Lang allows incoming freshmen to spend their first year deeply immersed in the developing world through homestays, language study, and apprenticeships with local, civic-minded organizations.
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If you are one of the few that develops this subject matter expertise you will have achieved fluency in a new language and everyone in the business world you encounter will immediately recognize this.
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The combination brings together two of the world's leading English language publishers, with highly complementary skills and strengths.
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Each year Oscar organisers try to identify the best movie around the world not in the English language.
This heritage may exist in any language, in any part of the world, and in any area of human knowledge or expression.
As he described, the Anglosphere was a persistent force that created a common world culture via land, language, and law (the common law, which originated in Anglo-Saxon culture).
In an ideal world it should also have language in its bylaws promising to defend and indemnify directors (except for their own misdeeds) and pockets deep enough to back up that promise.
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This is a guest post by Nataly Kelly, Chief Research Officer at the Boston-based research firm Common Sense Advisory and author of Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World (Penguin).
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