Why go Bilingual?
When talking to clients about roles they are currently recruiting for the response we often get is that some clients do not really have a requirement for multilingual candidates; whilst in an international business with offices and clients worldwide the advantages of having bilingual employees are obvious, the use they have in other commercial environments [...]
Click here to continue readingBeing Bilingual Could Protect You Against Dementia
Planning to join French classes? Here is a reason why you should go ahead with your plan — learning another language “rewires” the brain and could help slow the onset of dementia, claims a new study. Researchers at the York University in Toronto, Canada, found that learning two languages makes the brain work harder, making [...]
Click here to continue readingHow Effective is Immersion Language Learning?
A first-of-its kind series of brain studies shows how an adult learning a foreign language can come to use the same brain mechanisms as a native speaker. The research also demonstrates that the kind of exposure you have to the language can determine whether you achieve native-language brain processing, and that learning under immersion conditions [...]
Click here to continue readingScottish Teenager Named “Most Multilingual” in the UK
A 14 year old from Callander has been named the most multi-lingual child in the UK. After he learned Russian, Bruce Ballie-Hamilton decided to acquire Mandarin next, because, he told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland programme, he “wanted a challenge”. Arabic was next on the list. After a language with, effectively, no alphabet he wanted [...]
Click here to continue readingKidnapper Pays Price For Not Being Bilingual
A trip to a CVS Pharmacy for a late-night DVD rental turned into a horror for a Gwinnett County woman who soon found herself at the mercy of a kidnapper, police say. Carolina Lopera, 23, had been at the CVS Pharmacy at Herrington Road and Cruse Road, Atlanta, Georgia and was at the automated DVD [...]
Click here to continue readingWhy It’s Smart to be Bilingual
On a sweltering August morning, in a classroom overlooking New York’s Hudson River, a group of 3-year-olds are rolling sticky rice balls in chocolate sprinkles, as a teacher guides them completely in Mandarin. This is just one toddler learning game at the total–immersion language summer camp run by the primary school Bilingual Buds, which offers a year-round [...]
Click here to continue readingMultilingual Tot Speaks French, Polish, Italian and Spanish!
One-year-old Alice Di Giovanni asks for “banane,” not banana, when she’s in the mood for one. She’ll bid you farewell with a “ciao.” And if she wants more, she says “mas.” The Miami toddler is one of an increasing number of Americans living in homes where a language other than English is spoken, and her [...]
Click here to continue readingOttawa Businesses to Get ‘Secret’ French Language Test
Secret shoppers are being sent out across Ottawa to see whether the capital of this officially bilingual nation is in fact offering equal service in both English and French. Canada’s language commissioner Graham Fraser is dispatching the shoppers to restaurants, hotels and stores across Ottawa next month. Graham said he wants to know how French [...]
Click here to continue readingSacre Bleu! French Language Hardliners Win £8,000 Payout
French language hardliners win £8,000 payout after Air Canada staff speak to them in English Couple claim airline ‘didn’t respect their right to be served in their mother tongue’ Payout fuels language debate in bilingual Canada Michel and Lynda Thibodeau sued Air Canada for not respecting their right to be served in their mother tongue [...]
Click here to continue readingGoogle Chrome Launches Bilingual Search
Search king Google has released a new extension for its Chrome browser that allows users to search Google and YouTube in two languages simultaneously. The “Bilingual Suggest” extension claims to enhance Google and YouTube searches with query suggestions from more than 50 languages. “Bilingual Suggest turns Google and YouTube Suggest into two columns; the first [...]
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