"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.
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.
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.
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).
Why? because it is the one language of money the world understands and knows the challenges of acquiring.
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 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 American language became the richest in the world, because the settlers encountered so many different kinds of people.
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Suffice it say, these are issues not of the manipulation of language, but how language changes as the world which it express changes.
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.
The Abbey event highlighted the book's impact on English language and culture throughout the world.
This novel, Emmanuel Darley's second, is the story of an exclusive love that turns into a nightmare, perhaps because the protagonists have no common language: the boy is enclosed in the simplicity of his own world, the little girl only laughs or cries, and the police speak only the language of the law.
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.
Each year Oscar organisers try to identify the best movie around the world not in the English language.
The combination brings together two of the world's leading English language publishers, with highly complementary skills and strengths.
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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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With support from Norway, UNESCO published a 2-volume book in the Mayangna language based on their indigenous knowledge of the natural world.
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.
In the little world of gold standard advocacy in the English language, most of the books date from the 1960s and 1970s.
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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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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 United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom.
The Sami language is extraordinarily eloquent when it comes to the natural world.
At first, Megan and Michael took the difference in stride, seeking programs that would help Jacob acquire language and find a place in the hearing world.
In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.
The language of war is more the world of men than women, as is Wall Street.
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Murdoch closed the Sunday tabloid, one of the world's best-selling English-language newspapers, in 2011 over the phone-hacking scandal.
As a result, they are trapped in the language of absolutes, viewing the world only in black and white.
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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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.
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