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Title: Article: NCLB Seen Impeding Indigenous-Language Preservation
Body: From http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/07/14/37indian.h29.html?tkn=RTRFHXrhw%2B9niVfTDfMB9eOXQyjvE3PL%2FZ5W&cmp=clp-edweek NCLB Seen Impeding Indigenous-Language Preservation By Mary Ann Zehr July 14, 2010 Native American leaders pressed members of Congress and federal education officials this week to provide relief from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act that they see as obstacles to running the language-immersion schools they need to keep their languages from disappearing. As part of a two-day national summit here on revitalizing native languages, three founders of immersion schools that are teaching children Cherokee, Ojibwe, and Native Hawaiian contended that some No Child Left Behind provisions present huge hurdles for language-immersion programs or schools and conflict with schooling rights spelled out in another federal law, the Native American Languages Act. Read the full article at http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/07/14/37indian.h29.html?tkn=RTRFHXrhw%2B9niVfTDfMB9eOXQyjvE3PL%2FZ5W&cmp=clp-edweek
Source: Education Week
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Title: San Manuel Band of Mission Indians’ New Television Channel
Body: From http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100718/NEWS06/7170355/Tribe-making-television-history San Manuel Band of Mission Indians making television history with KVCR Debra Gruszecki July 18, 2010 The Highland-based San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has made a $6 million donation to launch what promises to be the nation's first 24-hour American Indian television channel. The channel will be on KVCR-TV, which broadcasts to hundreds of thousands of viewers across the desert and L.A. markets. Station president Larry Ciecalone said he is pumped about the one-of-a-kind channel that will tell the stories of American Indians and Alaskan natives. Expect it to air in the spring of 2011. Read the full article at http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100718/NEWS06/7170355/Tribe-making-television-history
Source: Desert Sun, Palm Springs, California
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Title: Brief: Why and How Africa Should Invest in African Languages and Multilingual Education
Body: In collaboration with the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has just published an evidence- and practice-based policy advocacy brief entitled Why and how Africa should invest in African languages and multilingual education. UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) announcement -- http://www.unesco.org/uil/en/UILPDF/nesico/publication/announcement_african_publication.pdf Article (Afrique en ligne) -- http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/unesco-publishes-work-on-teaching-of-african-languages-2010071552790.html Full report -- http://www.unesco.org/uil/en/UILPDF/nesico/publication/AfricanLanguages_MultilingualEducation_pab.pdf (English) / http://www.unesco.org/uil/en/UILPDF/nesico/publication/Pourquoi%20et%20comment%20l%27Afrique_educ%20multilingue.pdf (Français) Vezzadini, E. ANN : Why and how Africa should invest in African languages and multilingual education. H-NET List for African History and Culture (H-AFRICA@H-NET.MSU.EDU, 17 Jul 2010).
Source: H-AFRICA
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Title: Elementary Hiragana Practice
Body: A series of worksheets to practice writing hiragana is available at http://kids.nifty.com/study/hira_rensyu/index.htm?nl=1
Source: Nifty
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Title: Special Grant Program for Japanese-Language Advocacy Projects
Body: From http://www.jflalc.org/index.php?act=tpt&id=462 Fiscal Year 2010-2011 Special Grant Program for Japanese-Language Advocacy Projects This limited-time special grant is designed to support non-profit Japanese-language educational institutions (including primary/secondary schools, colleges, universities, and heritage language schools) or Japanese-language related organizations in the U.S. to implement their ADVOCACY(*) projects for the purpose of strengthening and promoting the foreign language education that includes Japanese-language. The grant amount will be up to $2,000 per project and may be less than the full amount requested. Please submit your grant proposal(s) to The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles at least 2 months prior to the starting date of the project. The ADVOCACY project must be completed by March 31, 2011. Learn more at http://www.jflalc.org/index.php?act=tpt&id=462
Source: Japan Foundation
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Title: Russian Cinema: KinoKultura 29 Now Available
Body: KinoKultura has the pleasure to announce its 29th issue (July 2010) with the following content available at http://www.kinokultura.com/2010/issue29.shtml Articles Aliya Moldalieva: "Topical Reflections from Twenty Years Ago" (Ailanpa, 1989) Festival Report Birgit Beumers: "Suzdal 2010. The Business of Animation" Film Reviews Dmitrii D'iachenko: What Men Talk About by Lena Doubivko Nikolai Dreiden: Angel’s Aisle by Arlene Forman Feliks Mikhailov: Jolly Fellows by Marko Duman Andrei Razenkov: Kromov” by Jamila Nazyrova Aleksandr Rogozhkin: To Live for Another by Liudmila Basmakova El’dar Salavatov: Antikiller D.K. by Florian Weinhold Pavel Sanaev: Hooked by Volha Isakava Aleksandr Voitinskii and Dmitrii Kiselev: Black Lightning by Muireann Maguire Television and Documentaries: Valeriia Gai-Germanika: School II (TV series) by Joe Crescente Igor’ Maiboroda: Rerberg and Tarkovsky (doc) by Robert Bird Georgii Gitis: New Adventures of Alenushka and Yerioma (animation) by Natalie Kononenko Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii: Our Masha (animation) by Erin Alpert Central Asia and Caucasus Region: Ayaz Salayev: Anchor Man (Azerbaijan) by Thomas Welsford Beumers, B. [SEELANGS] KinoKultura 29. Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list (SEELANGS@bama.ua.edu, 18 Jul 2010).
Source: SEELANGS
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Title: Totovocabolario: Italian Vocabulary Game
Body: From http://italian.about.com/b/2010/07/07/totovocabolario.htm?nl=1 Totovocabolario is a word game in which users are presented with a list of obscure Italian vocabulary words and must identify which are legitimate and which are made up. The words must be listed in at least two out of five dictionaries: De Mauro, Garzanti, Devoto-Oli, Sabatini-Coletti, Zingarelli. A recent list included such terms as chiridota, chirogenoma (invented), ducatone, giuccheria, scaldaseggiole, and stalagamidico (invented). Totovocabolario is available at http://www.losciogliscilinguagnolo.it/public/totovocabolario.htm
Source: About.com
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Title: 1920s Berlin Project in Second Life
Body: This is the website for The 1920s Berlin Project in Second Life: http://www.1920sberlin.com More information, with screenshots and videos, can be found in the AVALON Ning: http://avalon-project.ning.com/forum/topics/ich-bin-ein-berliner Second Life is a 3D world in which simulations ("sims") of any real or imagined location can be created and in which people can interact in their avatar guises. The aim of the project is to stage a German course in a historical setting. Participants are asked to wear clothes of the 1920s, and a free set of clothes is provided for your avatar. There is an active role-playing community with great characters like Jo Yardley, a war widow, Petrus, the barman, and the Keller, who might give you a glass of Absinth when the police are not looking. Here is the SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dudintsev/130/60/501 The German course is an experiment to see whether language teachers in Second Life can set up a sim and a community where they can offer their courses and where the lessons offer real added value for the learners, introducing them to a community and place which they can come back to by themselves and practice their German. Here is an extract from the description of the project at the above website: "Berlin in the 1920s was a very interesting time, politically, culturally and in many other ways. We wanted to try and recreate the atmosphere of this fantastic city in that amazing era. But we wanted to show a realistic and authentic view of the darker side of this city. Most historical sims show a somewhat romanticized, clean, charming view of the past. We wanted to show our visitors what common people lived like in the backstreets of the poorer neighborhoods. No big houses, palaces, lanes and glorious theatres in our sim, but tiny apartments, a cheap modern looking cinema, a theatre that has seen better days and a dance hall that is situated in a damp basement and where they have lukewarm beer in dirty glasses." Davies, G. [mflresources] The 1920s Berlin Project in Second Life. MFLResources listserv (mflresources@yahoogroups.com, 16 Jul 2010).
Source: MFL Resources
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Title: Washington, DC Exhibit: German Drawings
Body: From http://www.nga.gov/press/exh/3088/index.shtm The National Gallery of Art, Washington, will present for the first time worldwide 120 stunning German watercolors and drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection—one of the finest private European holdings of old master drawings. On view in the Gallery's West Building from May 16 to November 28, 2010, German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580–1900 will include rare and influential examples of German works on paper encompassing 16th-century mannerism, the 17th-century baroque, the 18th-century rococo, early 19th-century romanticism, and late 19th-century realism. Learn more about the exhibit at http://www.nga.gov/press/exh/3088/index.shtm
Source: Goethe-Institut
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Title: Article: French-Only Dormitory Floor
Body: From http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100710/NEWS01/7100303/Centenary-bringing-back-French Centenary bringing back French By Icess Fernandez July 10, 2010 A piece of France will be housed on a dormitory floor at Centenary College starting this fall. The college will begin a living learning immersion model that will require students to be surrounded and participate in all things French. "By the time they live on the floor for a year, they'll go abroad," said Dana Kress, professor of French. "They'll be ready." Students with any major would live on a floor where signs would be written in French. The television would be from French speaking Canada and Africa. The radio also would have French music. The food would be French and the students would be required to communicate in French the entire time. Read the full article at http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100710/NEWS01/7100303/Centenary-bringing-back-French
Source: Shreveport Times
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