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The Dongducheon Foreign Language High School invited U.S. Army Garrison
Casey Commander Lt. Col. Steven G. Finley, as a keynote speaker on May 14.
Finley spoke to 113 students and faculty members starting with a brief
biography and he explained why he had joined the U.S. Army. Students asked
questions about his career, family, hobbies, and the daily life of a
Soldier.
Throughout his speech, Finley charged the young Korean students to start
thinking about their future and establish a twenty-year plan, or "road map"
for their life.
Near the end of his speech Finley cheered, "readers are leaders" as way to
motivate the future leaders to develop positive and healthy habits.
PAP languages -deco via GAD. Taustapaperit saatu hiljattain jossain MSH-postissa, nauhat Decotiimin miitistä (Myrntailta?). Outo kuvakulma siksi kun yritin saada vangittua kuvaan nuo metallinhohtoiset geelikynäraidat (oikealla).
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PAP languages deco via GAD y! group. Photo taken at a weird angle, I was trying to capture the shiny gel pen lines on the right.
I couldn't help noticing the body language of these two girls whilst I was having my lunch today. I wonder what a body language expert would make of it!
St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos y'n Koos) is a tidal island located 366 m (400 yd) off the Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a civil parish and is united with the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water.
The island exhibits a combination of slate and granite (see Geology below). Its Cornish language name — literally, "the grey rock in the wood" — may represent a folk memory of a time before Mount's Bay was flooded. Certainly, the Cornish name would be an accurate description of the Mount set in woodland. Remains of trees have been seen at low tides following storms on the beach at Perranuthnoe, but radiocarbon dating established the submerging of the hazel wood at about 1700 BC.The chronicler John of Worcester relates under the year 1099 that St. Michael's Mount was located five or six miles from the sea, enclosed in a thick wood, but that on the third day of the nones of November the sea overflowed the land, destroying many towns and drowning many people as well as innumerable oxen and sheep; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records under the date 11 November 1199, "The sea-flood sprung up to such a height, and did so much harm, as no man remembered that it ever did before". The Cornish legend of Lyonesse, an ancient kingdom said to have extended from Penwith toward the Isles of Scilly, also talks of land being inundated by the sea.
This set has different languages to those in www.flickr.com/photos/pdeaves/34698366343/in/album-721576.... Additionally, each language now has an appropriate flag to help visitors identify the right one more quickly.
Clockwise from left: English, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Italian (the only 'duplicate' language with the previous series) and Polish
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The 2018 Language Day celebration was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 11. Language Day is open to the public and attended by schools across the nation to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world. Approximately 6,000 people attended this annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center celebrated the upcoming Memorial Day with a ceremony on Presidio’s Soldier Field May 25. The ceremony included a solemn invocation by the Chaplain, a 21-gun salute rendered to fallen service members, firing of the ceremonial cannon, performances by the DLIFLC Joint Service Student Choir, and three names added to the plaque in honor of DLIFLC graduates killed in action during the Vietnam War. Guest speaker for the event was City of Salinas Mayor Joe Gunter, who is also a Marine Corps veteran.
Following the ceremony, the Presidio Garrison hosted a special reception event for Gold Star Families who were in attendance.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, attended the UN Chinese Language Day opening ceremony held at the Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria. 2 May 2023.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
"Often, speaking a language means gaining access to cultural in-groups and building tight communities, but it can also reinforce barriers between insider and outsider. In Luxembourg, linguistic hierarchies exist as they do anywhere else, but here, the vast majority of people find themselves in a state of flux, moving on a stable yet oscillating path through a multilingual society. What is shared on this path is the understanding that language is never taken for granted, no one is its master.
Language is fluid, traveling in our ears as a constructive challenge, ringing from our lips with vibrato, pulsing across our skin as we bump up against it, dance with it, and allow it to take part in who we are becoming."
Read more at www.fulbright.be/2018/feeling-language-in-luxembourg.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The 2018 Language Day celebration was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 11. Language Day is open to the public and attended by schools across the nation to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world. Approximately 6,000 people attended this annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
The Presidio of Monterey held their annual Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony at the POM Chapel Dec. 6. The Defense Language Institute's Joint Service Choir sang Christmas carols as more than a dozen children assisted Garrison Commander Col. Greg Ford in lighting the tree. The Presidio Fire Department then escorted Santa to Weckerling Hall where he gave young and old alike a chance to ask him what they wanted for Christmas.
Life on the Line - An accidental photo-documentary on Bangkok 's window cleaners.
This series happened by pure chance -being at the right place at the right time, and with a camera.
Nothing here is staged and there are no body doubles
Hope you enjoy the series. Best viewed on black.
âSpanish Language Dayâ commemoration event in room XX. L to R: Roberto Sawicki, violinist and orchestra conductor of the Lancy-Genève Orchestra, singer Casilda Regueiro and her daughter at the end of the concert. Geneva, Switzerland, October 13, 2016. UN Photo/Pierre Albouy
Another old bank converted into a restaurant. This one is Thai and is at the town end of Cemetery Road - I bet they don't use that address!
SEASIDE, Calif. -- Soldiers, Airmen and Marines joined Sailors from the Information Warfare Training Command Monterey at Embassy Suites Oct. 5 to celebrate the Navy's 244th birthday. Family members and civilians also joined the service members for the celebration.
Capt. Patrick Count, the director of the Maritime Operations Center and former Navy Linguist served as the guest speaker. Count is a two-time graduate of the Defense Language Institute in Arabic and Russian languages.
Attendees enjoyed special performances by the IWTC choir and drill team.
Once the formal celebration ended "Liberty" was announced, which kicked off music and dancing.
Photo by: Joseph Kumzak, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs
The lifestyle shots were a pain in the ass. Next time I'm getting a friend to sit for me so I don't end up stabbing something.
Navy Capt. Jerald Hennessey, left, of the Naval Special Warfare Center, presents the U.S. Special Operations Command Language Program of the Year award to Army Master Sgt. Robert Castaneda III, center, the 3rd SFG (A) Command Language Program manager; and Command Sgt. Maj. Marc Eckard, 3rd SFG (A), during a ceremony at the Naval Special Warfare Center, Aug. 19.
The cat (Felis catus), also known as the domestic cat or housecatto distinguish it from other felines and felids, is a small carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt vermin and household pests. It has been associated with humans for at least 9,500 yearsand is currently the most popular pet in the world.A skilled predator, the cat is known to hunt over 1,000 species for food. It can be trained to obey simple commands. Individual cats have also been known to learn on their own to manipulate simple mechanisms, such as doorknobs and toilet handles.Cats use a variety of vocalizations and types of body language for communication, including meowing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, squeaking, chirping, clicking, and grunting.They are also bred and shown as registered pedigree pets. This hobby is known as cat fancy.Until recently the cat was commonly believed to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt, where it was a cult animal. A study in 2007 found that the lines of descent of all house cats probably run through as few as five self-domesticating African Wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) circa 8000 BC, in the Near East. The earliest direct evidence of cat domestication is a kitten that was buried with its owner 9,500 years ago in Cyprus.
Il gatto domestico (Felis silvestris catus) è un mammifero carnivoro di piccola taglia della famiglia dei felidi (genere Felis). Tradizionalmente l'antico Egitto e Mesopotamia viene indicato come luogo di origine, dove era considerato un animale sacro e, in alcuni casi, mummificato e messo nei sarcofagi delle famiglie più ricche. Un recente studio, pubblicato sulla rivista Science, ha evidenziato, attraverso studi genetici, che tale luogo andrebbe individuato nel Medio Oriente; precisamente nella mezzaluna fertile. Tutto ciò in coincidenza con lo sviluppo delle prime forme di agricoltura. Fu l'uomo, si presume nello studio, a favorire la diffusione del felino portandolo con lui nelle migrazioni. Si può trovare allo stato selvatico (ne esistono ancora diverse specie), ma prevalentemente vive nell'ambito domestico e spesso ha ruolo di animale da affezione. La sua temperatura corporea oscilla fra i 38° e i 38,5 °C; la frequenza respiratoria normale è di 10/20 respiri al minuto e quella cardiaca di 110/140 battiti al minuto. Il suo corpo è agile, flessibile e massiccio, tale da consentirgli di camminare in modo silenziosissimo e di spiccare grandi salti; le sue unghie retrattili (più precisamente protrattili, dato che nella condizione ordinaria di riposo si trovano nascoste e sono estratte solo all'occorrenza) gli permettono di arrampicarsi con grande agilità.
Fonte : Wikipedia
Ajanta Dutch in One Month (through the medium of Punjabi -English) is ideal for travellers, students and General Public. This book has been appreciated by Royal Netherlands Embassy, New Delhi etc.
Contact : Ajanta School of Foreign Languages
Basant Avenue Market
Amritsar – 143001
PUNJAB ( India )
Mobile – 9417180951 , 9417917979
Phone :- 0183-2223121, 0183-2220590
Website : www.asflamritsar.com
E-Mail:- dckapoorasfl@gmail.com
Professors :-
Miss Shikha Kapoor
M.A French ( Gold Medalist ) , Panjab University
B.A Honours, Guru Nanak Dev University
Advanced Diploma in French (GNDU)
DALF C1 (République Française Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale )
Certificate (German) , Panjab University
A2 i.e Grundstufe (II) German ( Goethe Institute – Pune )
& Co-author of “ Ajanta French in two months ”
Mr. Dinesh Chander Kapoor
Postgraduate Diploma in Library Science
M.A. ( Economics) Honours ( Economics )
Proficiency in Applied Economic Statistics and Advanced Economic Statistics
Certificate ( French & German )
Member of the Indian Association of Teachers of German & Association of Indian Teachers of French which are affiliated to the International Association of Teachers of German & Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Français
Also member of the French Canadian Studies & Comparative Literature
Ex . Translator of Foreign Languages- Irrigation , Power & Research Institute , Amritsar &
Author of 31 Ajanta Foreign Language books.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Language Day brought over 3,000 visitors to the Presidio of Monterey May 14. The annual event showcases the various cultural displays and performing arts that are taught at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
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Photo by Hiro Chang, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
NC 997 M24 2009
In a time of unprecedented competition for audience attention and with an increasing demand for complex graphics, Visual Language for Designers explains how to achieve quick and effective communications. It presents ways to design for the strengths of our innate mental capacities and to compensate for our cognitive limitations.
Patricia on the set of Foreign Language.
production design and wardrobe: Natalia Neverova
make up and hair: Andres Chavez
These are photos that were taken by Deaf students at Danny Williams School for the Deaf in Kingston Jamaica. I taught them photography for two weeks and their final project was to create a book of photos showing hand signs with the object or person they are associated with.
Population 476 (or thereabouts), Gunning is a town about 260 kilometers south-west of Sydney between Goulburn and Yass.
The Gunning region was originally home to two Australian Aboriginal language groups, the Gundungurra people in the north and the Ngunnawal people in the south.
Gunning was originally a coach stop, and service centre for the surrounding farms mainly growing Merino sheep. It had a police station and court house, post office, and school.
The main railway from Sydney arrived in 1875 and was completed through to Melbourne, Victoria in 1881 The establishment of the main trunk telegraph line is remembered by the Telegraph Hotel.
Since the Hume Highway bypassed the town in 1993 it has once again become a peaceful retreat providing bed and breakfast accommodation for those requiring a quiet weekend not so very far from Sydney.l