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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center's quarterly Commander's Cup running competition was held at the Price Fitness Center track, May 31. In the women's division the Army seized first place with Air Force placing second. In the men's division the Air Force placed first and the Marine Corps second. Air Force tallied the best combined time and was presented with the Commander's Cup trophy by DLIFLC Commandant Col. Phillip Deppert.
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There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people. We represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country. The colour of these countries shows how languages have taken root in many different regions.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - For the first time in more than a decade, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the local community for its annual Language Day celebration.
Held May 11, on the open grounds of historic Soldier Field and surrounding classrooms, Language Day was a colorful celebration of foreign languages and cultural education highlighting the 26 different languages taught to military personnel at the Presidio of Monterey.
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Chief Warrant Officer Stephen Puckett and Maj. Gen. Terry Nesbitt cut the ceremonial ribbon together, signifying the official opening of the state’s new Language Training Center at Clay National Guard Center in Marietta, Ga. The facility will be used to offer refresher courses to Guardsmen whose jobs require a foreign language, and is the first Language Training facility of its kind for the National Guard as a whole. (Photo by Pfc. Ashley Fontenot, Georgia National Guard)
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - More than 70 service members from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center volunteered over the weekend during the final two days of the Sea Otter Classic. The four-day bicycling and outdoor sports festival is held annually each spring at Laguna Seca and on now-public lands of the former Fort Ord. DLIFLC volunteers performed a variety of functions including access control, safety monitoring, registration as well as timing and scoring for bicycle races. The 2013 Sea Otter Classic attracted an estimated 55,000 spectators and more than 9,000 competitors, it is the largest consumer bike exposition in North America.
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta returned to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center he championed as a congressman to praise the next generation of military linguists he called critical to the United States’ future.
Panetta told an assembly of about 2,500 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines standing in formation on Soldier Field overlooking Monterey Bay that the language and cultural training they are receiving here is critical to the nation’s economic, diplomatic and security interests. “It is absolutely vital to what the United States is all about,” he said.
For the complete story by Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service, click here.
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In honor of 50 successful years of the English Language Fellow Program, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Marie Royce hosted a celebratory event on November 5th in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the U.S Department of State to honor the program, its participants, and its partners. Here are some photos of the event!
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.
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Bonifacio (Corsican : Bunifaziu, Ligurian: Bunifazziu) is a commune at the southern tip of the island of Corsica, in the Corse-du-Sud department of France. Its inhabitants are called Bonifaciens, feminine Bonifaciennes. The commune is the largest commune of Corsica.
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Multy Language headphones used as a simultaneous translation equipment (simultaneous interpretation equipment) lay on brightly-patterned chairs in empty luxury hotel conference hall after the event
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»Pictures for the sky«
The calendar »Bilder für den Himmel« (Pictures for the sky) is the result of an art project, which initiated in 1987 in Japan. Various artists were asked to paint pictures on Japanese paper. Finally, these were made into kites by kite constructors. Two years later there was an exhibition in the sky above Osaka when the kites were launched into the air. This calendar presents some of these artistic kites. The paper factory is commemorating an exhibition of a special kind with these pictures printed on Phoenix-Imperial. Paper: Phoenix-Imperial silk natural white, 250 g/qm
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Tom Wesselmann
Igor Kopystiansky
Niki de Saint Phalle
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L'Art prend l'air. Cerfs-volants d'artistes, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, 1993
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Expo Sevilla, Pabellón de Bellas Artes, Sevilla, Spain, 1992
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Rome, Italy, 1992
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy, 1991
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1991
Kunstdrachen. Bilder für den Himmel, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1991
L'art prend l'air. Cerfs-volants d'artistes, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium, 1991
Papagaios. Pinturas para o Céu, Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, 1991
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 1990
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, 1990
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1990
L'Art prend l'air. Cerfs-volants d'artistes, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France, 1990
Kunstdrachen. Bilder für den Himmel, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 1989
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 1989
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 1989
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka City, Japan, 1989
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan, 1989
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan, 1989
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan, 1988
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, Mie Prefectural Museum, Tsu, Japan, 1988
Art Kites: Pictures for the Sky, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, 1988
El Lissitzky Proun 1 C from the Proun Series 1919. Soviet, USSR, Constructivism. "The station where one changes from painting to architecture.” ~ El Lissitzky. ‘Proun’ was essentially El Lissitzky’s exploration of the visual language of suprematism with spatial elements, utilizing shifting axes and multiple perspectives; both uncommon ideas in suprematism.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center’s most colorful day of the year came May 8 as the Presidio opened its doors and welcomed a crowd estimated at more than 5,000 during its 31st hosting of Language Day. Attendees were treated to a diversity of songs, skits, dances, classroom demonstrations as well as food and wares that represented the cultures of 23 languages studied here at the military’s preeminent language training facility. Also in attendance were 54 combat veterans of the Vietnam War, honored guests during a “Welcome Home” ceremony led by Col. Paul Fellinger, Presidio of Monterey garrison commander, and Dan Presser, Military and Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee member, in commemoration of the war’s 50th anniversary.
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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
Photo by Hiro Chang, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the public on May 15 for its annual Language Day event.
The event showcased the cultures of the different departmental languages being taught here through dance, skits and fashion shows.
Exhibits were also presented throughout the school grounds with local Monterey ethnic vendors selling their local cuisines to the customers.
Nearly 2,000 high school students and teachers attended Language Day.
1974- A Prep Language Department Cultural Festival, held in the Duffy Hall cafeteria, featured musical performances not normally found as part of a Prep student's repertoire. Peeking in at the left are Prep Librarian Art Klimowicz (who probably played the violin that afternoon) and art teacher Ed Havas.
Serie of small icons for a magazine for teenagers-the holiday special.
Themes like 'OK' in Holland means 'nulle' (zero, lousy, lame) in France.
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Angie Liston provides American Sign Language interpretation at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Fla. Liston is a member of Morrison United Methodist Church in Leesburg, Fla. A double exposure for UMNS by Paul Jeffrey.
Using high-powered theatrical lighting, multi-media artist Marianne Nicolson is transforming the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Georgia Street architecture into a spectacular re-imagining of a traditional Kwakwaka’wakw ceremonial house.
Glowing with increased intensity as day gives way to night, the more than 30-foot-wide site-specific projection titled The House of the Ghosts will be presented until January 11, 2009.
The Gallery resides in British Columbia’s former Provincial courthouse, a turn-of-the-century neo-classical building where laws banning the cultures and languages of Canada’s First Nations were in effect.
By imposing the imagery of the traditional Kwakwaka’wakw bighouse on the pillars and lintel of the building, Nicolson symbolizes the survival of Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations cultures and communities, despite active efforts to suppress and eradicate them.
“The House of the Ghosts acts much like traditional performances executed within Kwakwaka’wakw ceremonies where, through an exhibition of the spectacular, it is believed that spirits can be enticed into communion with humans, allowing them to conduct extraordinary feats,” said Nicolson. “In all earnestness, this carefully crafted performance attempts to draw forth the assistance of the supernatural in the healing of First Nations communities and individuals, as well as the conflicted past and present relationships between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal groups. Ultimately the work seeks assistance in the healing of the compromised landscape within which all Kwakwaka’wakw, First Nations and Canadians live.”
The House of the Ghosts strongly references the traditional Kwakwaka’wakw belief in a balance that underlies nature. It is understood that the world of ghosts is counterbalanced by the world of humans, and that the spirit world is associated with night and the human world is associated with day. While it is believed that spirits are continuously present, they are only thought to be accessible to humans at night. This concept is made eloquently visible in Nicolson’s installation. Although the work is continuously present on the building’s façade, it only becomes observable in its full form when the sun begins to set.
Though extremely contemporary in its medium, the compositional techniques and subject matter included in The House of the Ghosts are strongly based in the traditions of Pacific Northwest First Nations artists. Using form line, Nicolson has created a highly expressive and symmetrical composition, including stylized killer whales, wolves, owls and a ghost puppet, all believed to heal the sick and revive the dead. Also included is the Sisiutl, a double headed serpent with a human face at its centre, which appears as the crossbeam of the Gallery’s façade, reinforcing a sense of balance.
Marianne Nicolson was born in 1969 and is a member of the Dzawada’enuxw Tribe of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations of Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia. She first came to prominence in 1998 when she scaled a vertical rock face in Kingcome Inlet to paint a 28×38-foot pictograph—the first in the inlet in more than sixty years—to mark the continued vitality of her ancestral village of Gwa’yi. Nicolson studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, the University of Victoria and with Kwakwaka’wakw carver Wayne Alfred. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues including the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Artspeak, the National Gallery of Canada and Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
The House of the Ghosts is the eighth work presented as a part of NEXT: a series of artist projects from the Pacific Rim. The series highlights work previously unseen in Vancouver and seeks to engage the diverse practices of Pacific Rim artists. The site-specific project is organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Daina Augaitis, chief curator/associate director.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center’s most colorful day of the year came May 8 as the Presidio opened its doors and welcomed a crowd estimated at more than 5,000 during its 31st hosting of Language Day. Attendees were treated to a diversity of songs, skits, dances, classroom demonstrations as well as food and wares that represented the cultures of 23 languages studied here at the military’s preeminent language training facility. Also in attendance were 54 combat veterans of the Vietnam War, honored guests during a “Welcome Home” ceremony led by Col. Paul Fellinger, Presidio of Monterey garrison commander, and Dan Presser, Military and Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee member, in commemoration of the war’s 50th anniversary.
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Now in its 2nd Term, the Kpop Academy is a course that encourages K-pop fans to learn more about the culture of Korea.
This course aims to give K-pop fans a firm grounding in the history of the development of the K-pop phenomenon – including an understanding of Korea’s history, culture, language, food, etc.
It will also allow K-pop fans to develop an understanding of the dynamic relationship between K-pop music and Korean cultural determinants. Moreover, the ‘K-pop Academy’ will help students understand K-pop as both a Korean and a global phenomenon. It will also encourage a more hands-on approach, where students will participate in various activities – for example, cooking a Korean meal. Finally, this course will give students an understanding of the interconnectedness of K-pop as a form of mass entertainment.
We've recently adopted this English Language programme for school children, and are running demo lessons for local kids. This was the first. After the presentation activities, we took the kids off to a class for further teaching while the parents recieved more info.
Symposium on Indigenous Languages at the University of Pennsylvania's Quechua program. October 2019.
Half way during our drive, we stopped to buy petrol/ gas, and to use the little boy's room and to get some snack.
My agenda today is to visit a Medieval castle called Huis Bergh, about 140 km southeast of Amsterdam. Originally I was to take the train and local bus to get to the town of 's-Heerenberg. Luckily, two of my Dutch friends Chris and Michiel said they had never been there also, and were curious and kind enough to insist on joining me, and driving me there :D