View allAll Photos Tagged polyglot
Website:
English
is the capital of Belgium and hosts the headquarters of the European Union (EU). It is also the largest urban area in Belgium, comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne into a metropolis of more than one million inhabitants. The metropolitan area has a population of over 1.8 million, making it the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been a main center for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions as well as the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
Although historically Dutch-speaking, Brussels became increasingly French-speaking over the 19th and 20th centuries. Today a majority of inhabitants are native French-speakers, and both languages have official status. Linguistic tensions remain, and the language laws of the municipalities surrounding Brussels are an issue of considerable controversy in Belgium.
Português
A Região de Bruxelas-Capital é uma das três regiões que compõem a Bélgica - ao lado da Valônia e de Flandres . Dispõe dum território relativamente pequeno (161 km²), inteiramente urbanizado. Tem mais de um milhão de habitantes.
Esta cidade-região oficialmente bilingüe é habitada por uma maioria de belgas francófonos. 85 a 90% dos habitantes falam francês, enquanto 33% falam outras línguas. Os belgas flamengos representam de 10 a 15% da população e falam neerlandês.
A região compõe-se de 19 comunas autónomas, comparáveis em número de habitantes aos 20 arrondissements parisienses mas sem um burgomestre "comum" ao conjunto.
Devido à presença no seu território de numerosas instituições internacionais, concentra um importante contingente de habitantes originários dos outros Estados-Membros da União Europeia. A estes acrescentam-se comunidades de migrantes originários não apenas das antigas colónias belgas (República Democrática do Congo (RDC), Ruanda e Burundi, da África subsariana) mas também do Magrebe (nomeadamente de Marrocos), da Turquia, da América, da Ásia (Irão, Paquistão...), fazendo da Região um conjunto cosmopolita e multi-étnico. Os imigrantes que não sejam já francófonos procuram geralmente aprender o francês aquando da instalação a fim de se integrarem o melhor possível na sociedade bruxelense.
Website:
English
is the capital of Belgium and hosts the headquarters of the European Union (EU). It is also the largest urban area in Belgium, comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne into a metropolis of more than one million inhabitants. The metropolitan area has a population of over 1.8 million, making it the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been a main center for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions as well as the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
Although historically Dutch-speaking, Brussels became increasingly French-speaking over the 19th and 20th centuries. Today a majority of inhabitants are native French-speakers, and both languages have official status. Linguistic tensions remain, and the language laws of the municipalities surrounding Brussels are an issue of considerable controversy in Belgium.
Português
A Região de Bruxelas-Capital é uma das três regiões que compõem a Bélgica - ao lado da Valônia e de Flandres . Dispõe dum território relativamente pequeno (161 km²), inteiramente urbanizado. Tem mais de um milhão de habitantes.
Esta cidade-região oficialmente bilingüe é habitada por uma maioria de belgas francófonos. 85 a 90% dos habitantes falam francês, enquanto 33% falam outras línguas. Os belgas flamengos representam de 10 a 15% da população e falam neerlandês.
A região compõe-se de 19 comunas autónomas, comparáveis em número de habitantes aos 20 arrondissements parisienses mas sem um burgomestre "comum" ao conjunto.
Devido à presença no seu território de numerosas instituições internacionais, concentra um importante contingente de habitantes originários dos outros Estados-Membros da União Europeia. A estes acrescentam-se comunidades de migrantes originários não apenas das antigas colónias belgas (República Democrática do Congo (RDC), Ruanda e Burundi, da África subsariana) mas também do Magrebe (nomeadamente de Marrocos), da Turquia, da América, da Ásia (Irão, Paquistão...), fazendo da Região um conjunto cosmopolita e multi-étnico. Os imigrantes que não sejam já francófonos procuram geralmente aprender o francês aquando da instalação a fim de se integrarem o melhor possível na sociedade bruxelense.
View your visualization in your local language, and in a rich Silverlight interface.
For more information about localizing your Visual Fusion application, visit this Enterprise Ready blog post.
To learn more about all that Visual Fusion 4.5 can do, explore our homepage.
Author your data visualizations with drag and drop feed management, in your local language (seen here in Japanese).
For more information about localizing your Visual Fusion application, visit this Enterprise Ready blog post.
Explore our homepage to learn more about Visual Fusion Composer.
Russian time! Man it's hard!! #learn #study #language #hard #learnlanguage #polyglot #workbitch #reading #studying #love
19 Likes on Instagram
1 Comments on Instagram:
nando_rasta: It's hard, but it's worth it every single moment!!
Khazrati Imam is named after Kaffal Shashi (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ismail al-Kaffal al-Kabir as-Shashi, also known as Abu Bakr as-Shashi) 904-979, who was born into a family of locksmiths (kaffal means locksmith), became renowned as a spiritual successor to the hadith scholar Muhammad al-Bukhari (810-870); a poet, polyglot, and the author of many books on Islamic Law. After studying in Baghdad he finally returned to Tashkent to become the first Tashkent Imam.
Habitat : Cet oiseau affectionne les friches aérées à végétation basse, les landes en voie de colonisation, les buissons, pourvu qu'ils soient bien exposés, car l'hypolaïs aime la chaleur et les terrains secs. Il ne dédaigne pas pour autant de s'installer près des rivières, mais choisit de préférence le versant de vallée le mieux orienté.
Comportements : Sylviidé migrateur transsaharien. Occupe l'Europe Occidentale et l'Afrique du Nord. Le nord-est de la France représente la zone de transition entre la polyglotte et la cousine, l'hypolaïs ictérine qui occupe l'Europe Centrale et Orientale.
Chant : Ses facultés d'imitation lui ont valu le nom de polyglotte. En effet, dans le babil incessant que délivre l'hypolaïs, figurent des sons empruntés au registre d'autres espèces. Elle entame souvent sa composition sonore par quelques notes du merle noir (Turdus merula), du moineau domestique, de la grive musicienne ou bien encore de l'hirondelle rustique. C'est une chanteuse assidue qui, absorbée dans ses vocalises territoriales se laisse alors observer bien en évidence sur la branche dépassant du roncier ou l'arbuste dominant les broussailles.
Chant :http://www.oiseaux.net/chant/jean.roche/hypolais.polyglotte.1.mp3
www.oiseaux.net/chant/xeno-canto/hypolais.polyglotte.2979...
Source : www.oiseaux.net
Europe Trip 2010 - Day 11
January 03, 2011
Brussels (French: Bruxelles, pronounced [bʁysɛl] ( listen); Dutch: Brussel, pronounced [ˈbrʏsəl] ( listen)), officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region[1][2] (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (help·info)), is the de facto capital of Belgium and of the European Union (EU). It is also the largest urban area in Belgium,[8][9] comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.[10]
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne into a metropolis of more than one million inhabitants.[11] The metropolitan area has a population of over 1.8 million, making it the largest in Belgium.[6][7]
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been a main centre for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions[12] as well as the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.[13]
Although historically Dutch-speaking, Brussels became increasingly French-speaking over the 19th and 20th centuries. Today a majority of inhabitants are native French-speakers, and both languages have official status.[14] Linguistic tensions remain, and the language laws of the municipalities surrounding Brussels are an issue of considerable controversy in Belgium.
That is a chair that used to be at my Grandfather's house- my aunt took it after he died. Polyglot really loves to sit in that big chair all by himself, smack dab in the middle of that pillow. So cute.
Market Street was overrun by a tape maze during the Coffee Festival. It begins as a maze of clear tape and people are invited to pick up strips of newspaper at the entrance and fill in the maze as they make their way through it. There are people in costume who run through it, performing silly antics to liven things up a bit.
Polyglot Theatre's "Sticky Maze" @ Fremantle Coffee Festival 2011.
Fremantle, Western Australia.
Khazrati Imam is named after Kaffal Shashi (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ismail al-Kaffal al-Kabir as-Shashi, also known as Abu Bakr as-Shashi) 904-979, who was born into a family of locksmiths (kaffal means locksmith), became renowned as a spiritual successor to the hadith scholar Muhammad al-Bukhari (810-870); a poet, polyglot, and the author of many books on Islamic Law. After studying in Baghdad he finally returned to Tashkent to become the first Tashkent Imam.
Adalbert Merx sprach Deutsch, Französisch, Italienisch, Englisch, Arabisch, Sanskrit, Äthiopisch, Neupersisch, Althebräisch, Syrisch, oh je, man lese selber nach ...
I was stopped by this man, spoken to and asked to click his portrait, which I was happy to oblige.
And I think he made for a very good subject and the portrait came out pretty well - cos he's got a great smile and the shock of hair adds to a very 70s Indian look.
This is Samuel Pandiyan.
He doesnt like how he looks, accepts he has a good smile, but thinks he looks like - wait for it - a terrorist!! (his words, not mine) He wouldnt accept when I said it just wasnt so!
Sam or Shyam(as he pronounced it) is a polyglot, and for a tamilian from the streets speaks pretty decent Hindi. He told me about the Madivala lake in the background and the birds(feathered kind) I could spot there - birds that migrate from abroad and are big-winged in nature, kingfishers etc., Kingfisher was the one bird he could identify really well. How? From the image on the beer bottle! :)
I think the opportunity to take these snaps is one of the highlights of doing street photography.
This picture is #4 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
f 8, 1/250s on a Nikkor 50mm f1.4 AIS lens
Oldie Literary Lunch;
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, PC (born 27 February 1941), usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and diplomat. He is currently the Chair of the Liberal Democrats 2015 General Election Team.
After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, Ashdown was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999; later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 May 2002 to 30 May 2006, following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s. A gifted polyglot, Ashdown is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and other languages. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG) in the New Year Honours 2006.
Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 -1543
Jodrell Bank
Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. The publication of this model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) just before his death in 1543 is considered a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region that had been a part of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. He was a polyglot and polymath who obtained a doctorate in canon law and also practiced as a physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money – a key concept in economics – and in 1519 he formulated a version of what later became known as Gresham's law.
Acknowledgements to Wikipedia for the text.
Adalbert Merx sprach Deutsch, Französisch, Italienisch, Englisch, Arabisch, Sanskrit, Äthiopisch, Neupersisch, Althebräisch, Syrisch, oh je, man lese selber nach ...
Brussels is the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU) and the largest urban area in Belgium. It comprises 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels proper, which is the capital of Belgium, Flanders and the French Community of Belgium.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne into a metropolis of more than one million inhabitants. The metropolitan area has a population of over 1.8 million, making it the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been an important centre for international politics. The presence of the main EU institutions as well as the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has made the city a polyglot home of many international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
Although historically Dutch-speaking, Brussels became more and more French-speaking over the 19th and 20th centuries. Today a majority of inhabitants are native French-speakers, although both languages have official status.
Linguistic tensions remain, and the language laws of the municipalities surrounding Brussels are an issue of much controversy in Belgium.
In 2008, Bahrain's population stood at 1.05 million, out of which more than 517,000 were non-nationals.Though majority of the population is ethnically Arab, a sizable number of people from South Asia live in the country. In 2008, approximately 290,000 Indian nationals lived in Bahrain, making them the single largest expatriate community in the country.
The official religion of Bahrain is Islam, which the majority of the population practices. However, due to an influx of immigrants and guest workers from non-Muslim countries, such as India, Philippines and Sri Lanka, the overall percentage of Muslims in the country has declined in recent years. According to the 2001 census, 81,2% of Bahrain's population was Muslim, 9% were Christian, and 9.8% practiced Hinduism and other religions. There are no official figures for the proportion of Shia and Sunni among the Muslims of Bahrain. Unofficial sources, such as the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, estimate it to be approximately 33% Sunni and 66% Shia.
A Financial Times article published on 31 May 1983 found that "Bahrain is a polyglot state, both religiously and racially. Leaving aside the temporary immigrants of the past ten years, there are at least eight or nine communities on the island". - wikipedia