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Why do I need another word for something, one might say. Why? For the same reason that you have more than one pair of pants. You do not use the same pair every day. Good to rotate them. A little variety is useful. Even fun.
From time to time we feature words that make one say: I didn't know there was a word for it. This week we have picked words that will elicit: I didn't know there's *another* word for it.
Today's word is ceraceous.
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/ceraceous.html
Buddist prayer wheel. Traditionally, the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is written in Newari language of Nepal.
Working with families, different age kids. Photographer was taking classes of Psychology of Communication, speaking 3 Languages (English Russian Ukrainian). Working at 4 states NY NJ CT FL
Hornby Library. July 2014. File Reference: DSC01868.jpg
Photo by Kirsten Smith.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
On October 29, English Language Fellow Kimberly Chilmonik talked with a group of our patrons about the origin of the holiday and described how it is celebrated in the United States.
She also led a Halloween theme vocabulary activities and finish the session with a mummy wrap competition.
For more information about the IRC, click here.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Un Yarat]
The first nation Canada.
To me the aboriginal characters seems like a mixture of Korean, Japanese and Chinese. It does not sound like any of these languages.Canadian aboriginal language sounds like Turkmen language in Turkmenistan.
Fortified red wine from the Gentleman's Collection.
***Rule No. 1: "Language, Please"***
A gentleman may make a perfectly emphatic point without the use of profane language. This is not to say that he is not versed in profanity, but that he frequently has better things to say.
Lousy wine, actually, but great label. Watercolours and ink.
This French-language opera in three acts is a fictionalized version of the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne. Set in the closing days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, the opera tells the tragic story of Carmelite nuns who were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation.
UNICEF giveaway comic about the danger of landmines.
Art by Eduardo Barreto.
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library
[Image Description: Superman and Wonder Woman rescue two children from an exploding landmine. ]
Info Island International (233,205,33)
International Plaza-Rare languages booth area
The mustang carries a notecard with URLs to audio sites.
Notecard by Willow Shenlin
Eager to learn. A core group of 30 Polish construction workers in Norway participates in language training classes as part of the IOM project to empower Polish migrant workers.
Approximately, 30-40 English language teachers and various university students attended the Bay Linx “Ideas for a New Semester” Conference in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil on March 12-13, 2015 organized by Peter Rodriguez Fernandez from First Class Consultoria and CEL/NEL in Rio Branco. Sr. English Language Fellow for Rio de Janeiro, Efraín Díaz, delivered two plenary speeches during the two day conference, along with a series of 5 rotating workshops each with Peter focusing on preparing English teachers with methodologies, strategies, techniques and activities for teaching English using the Communicative Approach. The participants were very enthusiastic and participatory and the workshops were well received by them and their administrators
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Joint Service Color Guard and service marching units helped Monterey residents and visitors celebrate Independence Day by participating in the City of Monterey's 4th of July parade in downtown Monterey, July 4.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
guiadesingapur.com - guía de viajes sobre Singapur en lengua castellana
guiadecingapura.com - guia de viagens sobre Cingapura na língua portuguesa
GUIA DE SINGAPUR and GUIA DE CINGAPURA, the Spanish-language and Portuguese-language online tourism guides of Singapore for Latin America and Spain.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The sun came out just in time to kickoff the Commandant's run here on the Presidio, Feb. 18. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Commandant Col. David Chapman led hundreds of service members on the run that covered the length of the Presidio, up and down hills and curves, before eventually finishing at the Presidio's Soldier Field.
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PHOTOS by Presidio of Monterey and DLIFLC Public Affairs
Some comedy might come from tragedy plus time, but where laughter isn't fitting, a low and cool joy can bury out the sadness. Some day, some long road away, this was the worst of any dream come true. Now, it's the workings of stonemasons and gravediggers, and what's left of little bones. Every single one from the body of Marion Mills, and those that make me aware I'm here. Tiny hammers in my ears, picking up vibrations from a hundred grasshoppers, and the limbs of weeds all rasping together. The clatter of callous language. This cemetery is abandoned, new shoots of alders all over, and no mowing this summer. I sit with the daughter of Clarence and Josephine a while, clear enough brush to see what was. 15 minutes for 15 months living, I'm sure I can spare the time. You've been waiting here, just marking the years, all 125 of them.
October 2, 2020
Mills Cemetery
Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - For the third consecutive year, service members from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Coast Guard Station Monterey represented the military at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am by tending a special pin adorned with the United States Flag at Pebble Beach's 15th hole. The 15th hole was also the location of the Support Our Troops tent that provided free food, drink and other amenities to service members in attendance during the final three days of the tournament.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Routes into Languages
National Final of the 2016 Spelling Bee competition.
MedRus, Aberystwyth University
July 05 2016
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February 22, 2008 - Rachel and Liz went to Montserrat and Claudia had class all day, so I went to the Picasso Museum, had lunch in the sunshine near the port, then took a long walk along the beach. I had coffee in the Parc de la Ciutadella, then spent hours on a crazy adventure to find a corkscrew for Claudia (above).
Hilly, volcanic Darnley Island (or Erub in the language of the Meriam Mir peoples) was the place where the first Christian service in Torres Strait (between the Australian continent and Papua New Guinea), and a bamboo church was the first building. This Romanesque style building 10-15 metres from Badog Beach went up about 1890, timber framing, coral cement, painted white, and a red corrugated asbestos cement (fibro) roof. The original nave was added to by aisles on each side. Corner and side buttresses exist.
The earliest Europeans to the island would have been beche-de-mer and pearl seekers.
The population of the island is about 350.
The Coming of the Light festival is centred annually on this building, commemorating the arrival of missionaries in Torres Strait.
No surprise about the SUV driver's feelings towards the driver of the Pontiac Sunfire in this accident on Major Mackenzie Drive in Vaughan, Ontario, on Wednesday September 28.
A sign of the Government Code stating English is the official language of Guam. Photo taken by Rene Mahone in the 1970s and courtesy of the Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC).
This picture is of the foreign language laboratory at the Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire, ca. 1970. Before the computer age, language students had to contend with large tape players, microphones, and headphones to record or listen to the language being learned. This photograph was taken during the time that the foreign language department was housed in a building at the center of campus, part of which had been the heating plant in the earlier days of the school.
Ever since the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire opened its doors in 1916 as the Eau Claire State Normal School, technology has played an important role in the education of generations of students. This album illustrates how technology has changed, from typewriters to computers, from records to reel-to-reel tape, and everything in between.
Source: Archives Series 279 (University Archives Photograph Collection), Box 13, Folder 11.
File Name: AS279.013.011.002
Urmia (Turkish language: Urmu, Urmiyə, اورمیه; farsi: ارومیه) variously translitterated as Oroumiyeh, Orūmīyeh and Urūmiyeh, is a city in and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 577,307, with 153,570 households.
The city lies at an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level on the Shahar Chay river (City River). Urmia is the 10th most populated city in Iran. The population is mainly mainly Azerbaijanian Turkish(85-90%), with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities.
Urmia is situated on a fertile plain called Urmia Plain, on western side of Lake Urmia; and eastern side of Turkish border and marginal range of mountains.
Urmia is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit (especially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco are grown. An important town by the 9th cent., Urmia was seized by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks.
Urmiye (Türkçesi:اورمو, Urmu, اورمیه, Urumiyə;Farsça: ارومیه, Orumieh), İran'ın Batı Azerbaycan Eyaleti'nin yönetim merkezi olan şehir. Şehir, bağlı olduğu eyaletin orta kısmında, Urmiye Gölü ile Türkiye sınırı arasında, kendi adıyla anılan ovada kuruludur. Nüfusu 2006 yılı verileriyle 577,307 kişidir ki Urmiye ülkenin en büyük 10. şehridir.
Urmiye şehrinde nüfusun çoğunluğunu (tahmini 90%) Türklerdir, azınlık kısmınıysa Kürtler, Süryaniler ve Ermeniler oluşturuyor.
The Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Ţūlūn (Arabic: مسجد أحمد بن طولون) is located in Cairo, Egypt. It is arguably the oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and is the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area.
The mosque was commissioned by Ahmad ibn Ţūlūn, the Abbassid governor of Egypt from 868–884 whose rule was characterized by de facto independence. The historian al-Maqrizi lists the mosque's construction start date as 876 AD[1], and the mosque's original inscription slab identifies the date of completion as 265 AH, or 879 AD.
The mosque was constructed on a small hill called Gebel Yashkur, "The Hill of Thanksgiving." One local legend says that it is here that Noah's Ark came to rest after the Deluge, instead of at Mount Ararat.[2]
The grand ceremonial mosque was intended as the focal point of Ibn Ţūlūn's capital, al-Qatta'i, which served as the center of administration for the Tulunid dynasty. The mosque originally was backed by ibn Ţūlūn's palace, and a door adjacent to the minbar allowed him direct entry to the mosque. Al-Qatta'i was razed in the early 10th century, AD, and the mosque is the only surviving structure. The mosque was constructed in the Samarran style common with Abbassid constructions. The mosque is constructed around a courtyard, with one covered hall on each of the four sides, the largest being on the side of the qibla, or direction to Mecca. The original mosque had its ablution fountain (sabil) in the area between the inner and outer walls. A distinctive sabil with a high drum dome was added in the central courtyard at the end of the thirteenth century by the Sultan Lajīn.
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Students from 30 high schools and their teacher gathered Saturday, March 4, 2017 at Union South on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the fifth annual Wisconsin Global Youth Summit.
The event was sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and UW-Madison's Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS), Language Institute, and International Reach (International Student Services).
Activities for students included small group discussions on what it means to be a global citizen, conversations with international students, and introductory lessons in a variety of world languages. The program also includes performances of Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art, and Okinawan taiko drumming.
Teachers participated in peer-led sessions that focused on Wisconsin's Global Education Achievement Certificate.
Participating high schools were: Amery, Appleton Area, Arrowhead UHS, Bonduel, Cedarburg, Cuba City, De Forest Area, Gibraltar Area, Grantsburg, Howard-Suamico, Janesville, Johnson Creek, Kettle Moraine, Lake Mills Area, Madison Metropolitan, Oconomowoc Area, Oregon, Pewaukee, Plymouth Joint, Pulaski Community, Shorewood, Slinger, South Milwaukee, Southern Door County, Tomah Area, Two Rivers Public, Watertown Unified, Wausau, Wausaukee, and Wauwatosa.
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Students from 30 high schools and their teacher gathered Saturday, March 4, 2017 at Union South on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the fifth annual Wisconsin Global Youth Summit.
The event was sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and UW-Madison's Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS), Language Institute, and International Reach (International Student Services).
Activities for students included small group discussions on what it means to be a global citizen, conversations with international students, and introductory lessons in a variety of world languages. The program also includes performances of Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art, and Okinawan taiko drumming.
Teachers participated in peer-led sessions that focused on Wisconsin's Global Education Achievement Certificate.
Participating high schools were: Amery, Appleton Area, Arrowhead UHS, Bonduel, Cedarburg, Cuba City, De Forest Area, Gibraltar Area, Grantsburg, Howard-Suamico, Janesville, Johnson Creek, Kettle Moraine, Lake Mills Area, Madison Metropolitan, Oconomowoc Area, Oregon, Pewaukee, Plymouth Joint, Pulaski Community, Shorewood, Slinger, South Milwaukee, Southern Door County, Tomah Area, Two Rivers Public, Watertown Unified, Wausau, Wausaukee, and Wauwatosa.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved.