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...German is turned to advantage by Sara de Jong in trying to understand how participants identify as ‘insiders’ or ‘outsiders’...[The word 'Outsiders' spray-painted on a wall] My research participants and I definitely had one thing in common: we managed to turn our disadvantage into an advantage. My imperfect German and newcomer status in Austria became an effective...

...German and Chinese dictionaries] R2-D2 or D2-R2? Unless you are C3-PO, fluent in over 6 million forms of communication, you may not understand every Star Wars language. We’re not talking about the languages spoken in the saga such as Shyriiwook, Huttese, Bocce or even Binary (beep beep doop!), but the languages that the Star Wars films have been translated to. Take the...

...German politics and Italian Futurism. Meanwhile, the OU’s specific expertise in teaching practice and pedagogy has been utilized to provide training for teachers in various topics including dyslexia and language learning, listening skills, and teaching translation. A library of free open educational resources (OER) is available through the OpenLearnWorks project website...

...German Lithuanian Slovenian Dutch Greek Maltese Spanish English Hungarian Polish Swedish In addition, there are other national, regional or minority languages (such as Catalan, Welsh or Occitan, for instance) as well as the languages of peoples who have migrated to Europe and that still preserve their heritage languages (such as Chinese, Bengali or Urdu). The European Day...