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The Belarussian president's strident anti-western language does not chime with Mr Putin's tough but friendly approach.
ECONOMIST: Belarus
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People with Down syndrome are not flying planes across the globe to hang out over pu-erh and discuss the finer points of Western culture in a language all their own.
NEWYORKER: Little Strangers
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He claimed that there was a risk it could assume an international identity very similar to its main Western competitors, pointing out that al-Jazeera's English-language website relied heavily on Western news agencies.
BBC: NEWS | Middle East | Al-Jazeera English TV date set
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Scots Gaelic, really only still spoken as a native language in a few of the Western Islands.
FORBES: The Perils of Email
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While she cannot actually type, the 26-year-old western lowland gorilla is fluent in modified American sign language.
BBC: News | Sci/Tech | Net goes bananas
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Professor BILL KINCAID (Head of Acting, Western Illinois University): They're playful with language.
NPR: Barenaked Ladies Meet Shakespeare
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Staffed by locals and Turks alike, the schools are patronised by the offspring of elites lured by Western standards of education (if not mandatory Turkish-language classes).
ECONOMIST: Turkey and Africa
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Mumbai is the glittering epicentre of India's gargantuan Hindi-language film industry, and they are often looking for Western extras.
BBC: Mumbai: India's Tinseltown
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Cercles celtiques (song, dance and language societies) are common and almost every town in western Brittany has a bagad.
ECONOMIST: Celtic music
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For Western companies China can be a difficult market to crack due to its language barrier and inherently private culture.
FORBES: Luxury goods makers find growth in China.
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Through my own experience as an Asian living in a western world, I came to truly understand what poor new immigrants face when confronted by a completely different culture and language.
WHITEHOUSE: Champions of Change Blog
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He bequeathed to his son two precious gifts: a love of language, and a passion for the raw materials of life and industry timber, such as western red cedar, metals, stones and minerals.
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