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Languages
Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Cruelly supressed during the Franco regime, the Catalan language is experiencing a revival - and bringing a sense of pride with it.
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Languages
Why is fish the translator's nightmare?
The blogger The Honourable Husband recalls a meal where language skills struggled to get a grip of a fish.
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Languages
Languages and Employability
Learning a language, or learning how languages work, can provide a key to the global workplace. In this video a collection of employers and employees outline the benefits that language skills bring to their companies and careers. There is a lot more to language skills than just learning to speak fluently. Inter-cultural communication skills open...
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Languages
A future for languages in schools?
Find out how the London Centre for Languages and Cultures is encouraging and promoting the study of languages in the UK.
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Languages
Languages and the refugee crisis
Can the European Day of Languages impact the linguistic challenges in Europe's current refugee crisis? Mara Fuertes-Gutiérrez discusses the importance of language in intercultural understanding.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Do sperm whales speak with local accents?
A survey suggests that sperm whale culture might be surprisingly elaborate - and that whales have regional dialects.
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Education & Development
Ms Yang on British and Chinese education
Ms Yang, the science teacher from 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school', gives her opinion on education in Britain and China and reflects on her experiences.
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Languages
My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'
Yang, Jun (Ms Yang in the 'Are our Kids tough enough? Chinese school?' series) mulls over her time at Bohunt Academy.
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Languages
An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Yang, Jun, or Ms Yang in the 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school' series, reflects on her experiences of the British and Chinese education systems.
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Languages
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
The musician and poet Zachary Richard has kept the Cajun tradition alive. But how has the migration of his stories affected them? Mathilde Köstler considers three of his tales.
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Languages
Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
Long before the invention of telegraphy, never mind mobile phones, the people of the Australian desert had a way to communicate across distances.
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Languages
Stereotypes
Do you want to find out more about stereotypes? Delve through these activities and reflect on the stereotypes accociated with your own cultures.