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Dr Powell did a doctorate on the reasons why boys do not study languages as much as girls.
BBC: boy writing French on blackboard
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Should Americans enlist in the armed forces, join the foreign service, pay more taxes, do volunteer work, study foreign languages, travel to Muslim countries?
NEWYORKER: Coming Apart
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More than half of the graduate students who study less-commonly taught languages (such as Hindi, Indonesian and Farsi) and 78% of those who study the least-common languages such as Pashto and Urdu do so at Title VI-funded National Resource Centers.
FORBES: Why We Need Fulbrights
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Isaac is not easily distracted by bright skies or promising winds, and Henry envies the singular attention he devotes to his study of classical languages and the spiritual writings of Orestes Brownson.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'
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The claim that study of these two languages trains the mind as no other can is bunkum.
ECONOMIST: Johnson: Don't shoot the pian-ist | The
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Whorf never got an advanced degree, but he took graduate classes in his free time with the anthropologist and linguist Edward Sapir, in the nineteen-thirties, and he devoted his leisure hours to the study of Native American languages.
NEWYORKER: Utopian for Beginners
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The study said the government's decision to make languages non-compulsory for pupils over 14 was having an adverse effect.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Big fall in university languages
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In 1972, UNESCO adopted a ten-year plan for the study of African oral traditions and the promotion of African Languages, the first Festival of the Arts of the Pacific was held in Fiji and two series of cultural studies on Latin America were launched.
UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage
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Master florists study for seven years, learning flowers' names in four languages, including Latin.
WSJ: Remco van Vliet, the Master Builder of Towers of Flowers | Creating
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Truly ancient languages haven't left empirical evidence that scientists can study.
WSJ: Study Points to a Single, Original Language for All Humans
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At the moment, 14 to 16-year-olds in England have to study English, maths, science, design and technology, modern foreign languages, information and communications technology and PE.
BBC: GCSEs 'too easy' for brainy pupils