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Our Italian language schools for foreigners are endowed with all kind of comforts, to make our students feel at home.
Sacred Heart University's Speech-Language Pathology program hosted an articulation camp for children at the Center for Healthcare Education during the summer of 2018. Photo by Tracy Deer-Mirek 7/19/18
The English Language Fellow Program sends talented, highly qualified American TESOL professionals on ten-month fellowships to academic institutions and Ministries of Education overseas.
English, the language — it's a funny old thing!
I've fallen behind. After the dead heat in the race for the season's first tomato, life got in the way of posting the ID of the other of the joint winners. There was the roses and vines which needed tidying, green waste to be either shredded or taken to the tip for upcycling because it's the weekend, the bird netting which needed to go up on raspberrries, riesling grapes and apple espaliers against possums and currawongs, the female koël changing the game by stealing jostaberries, kimchi, there was Leigh and Annabelle, pizza and a Nobel Laureate. Life: it's complicated. English is little better.
Back to that photo finish. Ah, remember photo finishing? No, no, not the sporting kind. The kind after you'd loaded your film in the tank. The developing and washing and all that, the enlarging, burning and dodging by hand, the artistry in that, more wet bits and pieces then finally after all that, running your precious print through the glazing machine; the photo finishing. No, I guess not. The iPhone doesn't have that app.
Here it is: the joint winner. No, no it didn't win a joint. And what's a joint, anyway? The second of my first tomatoes is kotlas a.k.a. sprint.
Yes, this is why there are both calmart and kotlas in my tomato beds in this preternatural chilly season. Perhaps the main crop and indeed the chilli varieties will fail. But these troopers will do their bit, just there; they're reliable where others might shiver and falter.
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King's Canadian Summer Experience students enjoy an afternoon at Aroma Mediterranean Restaurant learning how to prepare food and eating the results. Thank you Felipe and team for a delicious time!
I was asked to design some album cover for the US electronic dance group The Crystal Method with LMFAO the single is Sine Language and includes a variety of remixes by the group. These are a few of the concepts.
Henbury is one of five meteorite impact sites in Australia and one of the world's best-preserved examples of a small crater field. There are 13 to 14 craters ranging from 7 to 180 m in diameter and up to 15 m deep that were formed when the meteor broke up before impact. Several tonnes of iron-nickel fragments have been recovered from the site. The site is dated as ≤4.7 thousand years ago based on the cosmogenic 14C terrestrial age of the meteorite and 4.2±1.9 thousand years ago using fission track dating.
The Henbury crater field lies at the crossroads of several Aboriginal language groups, including Arrernte, Luritja, Pitjantjatjarra, and Yankunytjatjara. It is considered a sacred site to the Arrernte people and would have formed during human habitation of the area.
The Modern Language Center has arranged for a special trip in downtown Amman. The reason for the Arabic students to acquaint themselves with the archaeological and landmarks in the capital city Amman. They took advantage of their being downtown, had the chance to eat our national sweets “Kenafa”.
They enjoyed the trip very much.
Crossed out words: Lame, dumb, short sighted, weak, crip (ableist words).
Proposed alternatives:
Lazy
Unintelligent
Suboptimal
Bogus
Pathetic
Bullshit
Garbage
Ignorant
(Does the word Examine talent vs. Effort?)
VIRTLANTIS is a free language learning resource and community of practice in the virtual worlds of Second Life® and Avination®. We have been offering and facilitating free language learning activities since 2006.
What do we do at VIRTLANTIS?
We offer free informal learning activities for a growing number of languages: English, French, German, Spanish and more! Simply check out our activity calendar for additional information about our activities and how to participate.
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Marshall Strabala was interviewed in el Economista ("The Economist"), a daily Spanish language business and financial newspaper, published in Madrid, Spain. Read the story on the newspaper's website at: www.eleconomista.es/evasion/noticias/6753573/05/15/La-Tor...
,Spanish to English translation of the story follows (by Google Translate)
Shanghai Tower, the second tallest skyscraper in the world
Shanghai Tower, the second tallest skyscraper in the world, with 632 meters and 128 floors, 828 meters after the Burj Khalifa (Dubai), is almost ready for its opening and dedication this summer as the largest building double facade the planet.
Although not yet decided the date of its official opening, after more than six years of construction, the works are completed to 95 percent and weeks that Shanghainese are accustomed and to see lighted this immense and twisted column of glass, complete its futuristic collection of skyscrapers.
This structure (a vertical tower of glass, coated with an outer glass facade, writhing gracefully on itself, as if it will roll, structured around a series of platforms wider ground than other floors, which follow more roughly every 15 levels) is so aesthetic and practical.
"We wanted to make the super-tower high greener and high efficient in the world, so all building elements meet at least two or three functions at once," he told EFE the chief architect responsible for its design, US Marshall Strabala, from inside the tower, still under construction.
Indeed, Strabala, with nearly three decades of experience in designing large buildings (including own Burj Khalifa, with 163 floors high, and the Zifeng Tower of Nanjing, the ninth highest in the world with 450 meters), knows that biggest challenge is to design them to withstand the strong side wind thrust loads on the structure.
Twisted surface
Hence, in part, gently twisted the outer surface of the tower, because "the external façade is the only one who sees the wind, and the way it has reduced wind loads up to 28 percent, equivalent to about 60 million of structure that we had to build. "
This design also allows for an air bag between the two walls, which functions as an excellent natural thermal insulator, especially useful in a city with humidity and temperatures between zero and 40 degrees that rarely reaches every winter and Shanghai summers.
In addition, a building destined to become one of the hallmarks of Shanghai "should be part of your time, reflect its time", so peculiar aspect has already become "the image of the building, a tower of the future "he said.
Indeed, the tower, to be called "Shanghai Zhongxin" in Mandarin ("Shanghai Center") and "Shanghai Tower" in English, is the third of the "three brothers" the municipal government planned to build symbolically in 1995 heart of Lujiazui financial district, which barely existed then.
It is the only trio of skyscrapers located so close to each other worldwide.
The other two are the Jin Mao Tower (421 meters, 88 floors, opened in 1999, and today the fourteenth world's tallest building), and the Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC), popularly known in many languages, also in Chinese such as "Opener" (now fifth largest, with 492 meters and 101 floors, opened in 2008).
Although the last beam of the Tower of Shanghai (which in the original plan of 1995 was to be the smallest of the three) was installed in August 2013, and in fact would then be the second tallest building in the world it is not usually including new members in the list of super skyscrapers on the planet until they are in operation.
Strabala said Shanghai wants to symbolize the "three brothers" the last of China (Jin Mao, "a pagoda stainless steel"), present (SWFC, "China accepts foreign investment" because it is a Japanese building) and future (with "a transparent building, which has many places for people").
Indeed, the architect expects its Shanghai tower could accommodate about 18,000 visitors a day, between workers, tourists and guests of the world's tallest hotel (between floors 84 and 110).
The building, 530,000 square meters (including 95,000 22 967 office and commercial surfaces), has 106 lifts, the fastest of which go up to 18 meters per second to the highest tourist viewpoint of the planet (top 119), which also will open on the 121 floor terrace.
Copyright: el Economista/EFE
"bhasha" means language. The Bengali language is the only Language where people had to shed blood just to earn the right to speak in their mother tongue. And it all happened on the 21st of February, 1952
Nano Banana Pro, built on the Gemini 3 Pro model, is Google DeepMind's advanced image generation and editing tool, representing a significant upgrade from its predecessor. It is designed for professional-grade creative work, offering enhanced control and fidelity in visual outputs, including high-resolution 2K and 4K images. Key features include highly accurate and legible text rendering directly within images, supporting multiple languages for tasks like creating posters, infographics, and product mockups. Furthermore, it incorporates Google Search grounding to generate context-rich visuals based on real-world, up-to-date information, making it excellent for diagrams and educational content.
The model also boasts sophisticated creative controls, allowing users to fine-tune elements such as camera angles, lighting conditions, depth of field, and color grading through natural language prompts. Nano Banana Pro is especially adept at complex multi-element compositions, able to blend up to 14 input images and maintain the consistent appearance of up to five subjects across different scenes. This focus on precision and professional workflow makes it a versatile tool, integrated across various Google products like the Gemini app, Google Workspace (Slides, Vids), Google Ads, and the developer API, catering to both casual users and enterprises needing scalable, high-quality visual asset creation.
New Zealand Chinese Language Week 2017 display, Linwood Library, 21 October 2017.
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From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
A trip to the Great Blasket Island /
Fuair me seachtain ar fheabhs ar chursa Gaeilge eagraithe le Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne i mBaile an Fheirteirigh.Bhi Gaeilge bhrea ag gach duine, bhi dea chuideacht agus bhi ceol math gach oiche beagnach sna tithe tabhairne.
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I had an amazing week at an Irish language course organised by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne in Ballyferriter. Everyone was speaking Irish, there was great company and brilliant live music in the pubs almost every night.
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Love Language @ Ramsay Block Party. Sled Island 2022. Photo by Em Medland-Marchen. www.em-medland.com
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Joint Service Color Guard, along with marching units from the four service branches, once again kicked off Pacific Grove's Good Old Days festival by leading the parade along Pine St. on April 11.
The Annual Good Old Days Celebration and Music Festival started in 1957 and is a two-day event in downtown Pacific Grove with live music, parade, vendors and carnival rides.
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Instituto Cervantes, 326-330 Deansgate, Campfield Avenue Arcade, Manchester, England. The Instituto Cervantes, the official Spanish Government Centre, is a public institution founded in 1991 to promote Spanish language teaching and knowledge of the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries throughout the world.
Sign language chart. Hand gestures for communicating with the hearing and sight impaired or those under a vow of silence. Invented by monks.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - The eighth presentation of the Big Sur Mud Run was held March 23 at the former Fort Ord. The sold-out run attracted 2,000 individual runners and 400 teams, with many participating in colorful costumes. The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language provided 127 volunteers for the event including "drill sergeants" strategically placed at mud pits to lead exercises and provide motivation. Proceeds from the annual Mud Run benefit youth and athletic programs of the Presidio's Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department, the Athletic Department of CSUMB, and the Big Sur International Marathon’s youth fitness program, JUST RUN.
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Col. Joel J. Clark assumed command of the U.S. Army Garrison, Presidio of Monterey, in a ceremony held on Soldier Field July 19, joining Installation Management Command as its newest garrison commander. IMCOM West Region Director Randall Robinson officiated over the ceremony that included garrison staff, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center personnel and guests from the community.
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UNO Yerevan jointly with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China and the Confucius Institute Educational-Cultural Center at the Brusov State Linguistic University organized the first ever observation of the Chinese Language Day at the UN in Armenia. Students, university professors, Government officials, diplomats and journalists learned about the use of the Chinese Language at the UN. At the event, students of the Confucius Institute made presentations on history and usages of the Chinese language at the UN and performed Chinese songs and wushu performances. (Photo Credit: UNO Yerevan, 20 April 2011).
23 OCT 12
This was yet another night of insomnia. I didn't sleep at all. I tried to close my eyes and they just popped open and open and open so I resorted to using my brain for something even in the wee hours. So at 3am, I started trying to resume my quest to learn Italian.
English is my first language and French was my second. I actually attended a bilingual school, English, and French until I was seven. Unfortunately, here, the emphasis is all about learning Spanish, so as soon as I went to elementary, they enrolled me in the only language classes they had which was Spanish and I soon lost the ability to speak French fluently as only my brother and I spoke it, and my dad knew just a little bit of it. I did however get a chance to get back at it in the third grade when my parents enrolled me in the super Olympics of Summer Schools. We had French lessons, Chess lessons, Drum and Jazz classes, Dance, Swimming lessons, Arts and Crafts, History adn Culture, Singing lessons, and Sign Language. It felt as though we were in school, but all the classes were composed of electives. We ended up being sent back for 3 Summers in a row which was pretty cool. I excelled in French there, but again, got back to school, no one spoke or taught French, so it was back to learning Spanish and away my French went. Sign language was frustrating to me. We had a hearing teacher and a deaf teacher. I think she expected us to just pick up with the language, and so she would rarely actually speak to us once she'd taught us basics. The deaf teacher was much nicer and made a point to sign much slower so we could try to grasp the words and concepts unlike her lightening speed. I didn't really appreciate the language as much until I got a little older and I did try and take it in college but the basic classes were full up and I couldn't get in.
Along the way Spanish has been my constant companion. My besty's first language is Spanish so she sometimes speaks to me in half/half. My real test came when I started working in an after school program for the Y with bilingual students. I was there to tutor them in English, Math, and Science. I had to learn quickly how to translate. They wanted us to speak mostly English to them, but most were so young they were barely enrolled in ESL so I had to translate or the alternative would have been to spend my hours having them stare at me blankly.
And now, on my bucket list, is a dream of mine, to go to Italy. I don't want to do the whole tourisy ruins and art museums...I just want to go to a small country side village, eat as the locals do, enjoy the sunsets on some large land overlooking the countryside and eat, pray, love. I did say that I wouldn't go until I had some grasp of the basics of communication in the language. I don't want to go some place and have to rely totally on someone translating for me, because that gets old really quickly and it kind of puts people off as they have to struggle to say even the simplest things to you through someone else. I figured, a while back, because I know a little Spanish, learning Italian should be easier as the languages are very similar....um...that's actually the problem...the languages are very similar. There are subtle deviations between vowel sounds and pronunciations that have made this a confusing slog as I literally revert back to Spanish when trying to speak Italian. Counting is funny because I can easily recall Spanish numbers, so I say the numbers half in Spanish and Half in Italian. I'm at the beginning stages of the language, but it might as well be Spanish in a lot of respects. I think I might look for a tutor the more serious I get about learning it, but I want to at least learn the basics on my own, so I have plenty of books, audio, and of course as pictured, the lovely youtube.
In other news...I can almost cross this item off my bucket list because I have said for a while I am going to start growing my own herbs. That's legal herbs that is, LOL! Not that herbs at my local market are terribly expensive, I just want to start growing edible foods in my garden again. When I first moved in, I had corn and tomatoes, and apples and grapes, but most are now long dead and gone but its time to Secret Garden that b*tch, and make some food grow. So I'm starting with two items, one is basil, and one is carrots. Of course this being the worst time of year as the weather is about to turn, but I have hope that the basil will make it, and if not, I can transfer them and grow them inside if the outdoors fails. The one thing I will have to watch for in the garden is the freakin' squirrels. They constantly eat and destroy my apples because in the yard there is a giant pecan tree and when they get tired of those, the jump on my apples. Jerks! They are particularly active now with winter approaching, so I'm hoping they don't dig through the pots or chew through the basil as it begins to grow.
On May 15, 02018 author and linguist Sarah Ogilvie spoke at The Interval at Long Now about "Words from the Crowd: The Collaboration That Made The Oxford English Dictionary."
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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.
everything single thought i've had today has been for the most part depressing. i'm not usually like this, really.. i have these down on myself moments. and i mean-i get REALLY down. today for example. i feel like i'm going to go crazy before this day is over.
first there is the always pleasant thought and fear of lack of talent. not only in my major in school, but in any and everything. Looking at this flickr, i see juvienille work from a mediocre photographer. i would never even pretend to put anything i have taken up for sale. i wish i could write more regularly.. but then i feel like i'm only good at it SOMETIMES, when i'm extremely emotional. even then i don't feel like i can fully write what i feel.
i also just have this insanely horrible self hatred, i couldn't even tell you where it comes from. not so much of me-me..but of my appearance. it seems to me that no matter how hard i try i will never see in the mirror what i want. in terms of losing weight, most defintely. the dumbest thing i hate SO much about myself are my freckles. i don't know why i hate them so much..i just feel like a lepar--[i'm not even pretending to know how to spell that.] its just frustrating when you find most things about yourself disgustable.
i'm giving my two weeks at work and i feel guilty becasue two people just quit and i feel like i'm leaving them high and dry. but i simply cannot handle it anymore. theres too much going on. school is stressing me out enough for 3 jobs.
i feel pretty distant from my friends recently.
my family..we just need help.
long distance relationships completely suck. i've always looked down on the strange people who try to make them work, wondering how anyone could have so much faith in such a hopeless situation. now that i am one of those people, i feel so so indescribably empty. the worst thing to do is sit and think about this..but i miss him so much. i would settle for 3 minutes holding him tonight.
this is not a feel sorry for me thing.. not by any means..its just me trying desperately to get this feeling out of my chest. okayy.
A smile is always the best way to engage children...especially in Asia, where they have a natural curiosity to look at the strange visitors! Unlike in Thailand, where school uniforms are very varied and colourful, green and white is worn by all children in Myanmar. The "longyi" is worn by most of the local men and boys.
Representatives from the College of DuPage Spanish, German, Korean, French, Japanese and Italian clubs and the Alpha Mu Gamm Language Honor Society recently held a celebration of their diverse cultures at the Multicultural Mashup at the Glen Ellyn campus, 425 Fawell Blvd. The groups presented music, food and other cultural treats to highlight their respective corners of the world and educate guests on the various groups represented on the COD campus.