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Title: Article: College Scholarships Abound for Bilingual Students
Body: From http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-scholarship-coach/2011/12/22/college-scholarships-abound-for-bilingual-students College Scholarships Abound for Bilingual Students By Scholarship America December 22, 2011 Speaking more than one language can be a huge advantage in many parts of your life. Bilingual fluency is attractive to employers; it can help you get around outside the United States; and, if you know where to look, it can also mean scholarship dollars for college. Many bilingual scholarship programs are limited to certain schools or subject areas, but if you are fluent—or becoming fluent—in more than one language, these might just fit the bill. Read the full article at http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-scholarship-coach/2011/12/22/college-scholarships-abound-for-bilingual-students
Source: U.S. News & World Report
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Title: Article: College Scholarships Abound for Bilingual Students
Body: From http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-scholarship-coach/2011/12/22/college-scholarships-abound-for-bilingual-students College Scholarships Abound for Bilingual Students By Scholarship America December 22, 2011 Speaking more than one language can be a huge advantage in many parts of your life. Bilingual fluency is attractive to employers; it can help you get around outside the United States; and, if you know where to look, it can also mean scholarship dollars for college. Many bilingual scholarship programs are limited to certain schools or subject areas, but if you are fluent—or becoming fluent—in more than one language, these might just fit the bill. Read the full article at http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-scholarship-coach/2011/12/22/college-scholarships-abound-for-bilingual-students
Source: U.S. News & World Report
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Title: Parents Win Reprieve for Glendale German Immersion Program
Body: From http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/12/21/30445/glendale-german-immersion-franklin-parents-school After intense rallying, parents win reprieve for Glendale German program By Tami Abdollah December 21, 2011 It all began last Tuesday when Glendale’s deputy superintendent John Garcia recommended the board phase out the German language immersion program at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School to make room for a new French program. In about a week, a couple dozen parents helped mobilize an assault on the Glendale Unified School District that involved hundreds of sent emails, dozens of phone calls and multiple meetings. If the parents were blindsided by the decision to phase-out the program, school officials were equally surprised by their reaction. “As the representative of this district, I do want to apologize, because obviously we had a breakdown in communication,” said Glendale Unified School District superintendent Richard Sheehan, as he stared out into a sea of “I Love German Immersion” T-shirts, buttons and signs. “...We owe it to you to communicate better.” Sheehan said the district will enroll a full German kindergarten class for next fall, and create a task force of parents and staff to look into the long-term viability of the program. The task force will return with results of its review by mid-April. It will report the findings to the school board and at a meeting with parents, Sheehan said. A French immersion program will still be added next year as planned, Sheehan said. Glendale Unified School District offers one of the nation’s leading dual-immersion programs with six languages, including German, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese and Armenian, offered on nine campuses. French will make it seven languages. Read the full article at http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/12/21/30445/glendale-german-immersion-franklin-parents-school Read a related article in the Los Angeles Times at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-german-glendale-20111222,0,7519414.story
Source: KPCC
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Title: Parents Win Reprieve for Glendale German Immersion Program
Body: From http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/12/21/30445/glendale-german-immersion-franklin-parents-school After intense rallying, parents win reprieve for Glendale German program By Tami Abdollah December 21, 2011 It all began last Tuesday when Glendale’s deputy superintendent John Garcia recommended the board phase out the German language immersion program at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School to make room for a new French program. In about a week, a couple dozen parents helped mobilize an assault on the Glendale Unified School District that involved hundreds of sent emails, dozens of phone calls and multiple meetings. If the parents were blindsided by the decision to phase-out the program, school officials were equally surprised by their reaction. “As the representative of this district, I do want to apologize, because obviously we had a breakdown in communication,” said Glendale Unified School District superintendent Richard Sheehan, as he stared out into a sea of “I Love German Immersion” T-shirts, buttons and signs. “...We owe it to you to communicate better.” Sheehan said the district will enroll a full German kindergarten class for next fall, and create a task force of parents and staff to look into the long-term viability of the program. The task force will return with results of its review by mid-April. It will report the findings to the school board and at a meeting with parents, Sheehan said. A French immersion program will still be added next year as planned, Sheehan said. Glendale Unified School District offers one of the nation’s leading dual-immersion programs with six languages, including German, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese and Armenian, offered on nine campuses. French will make it seven languages. Read the full article at http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/12/21/30445/glendale-german-immersion-franklin-parents-school Read a related article in the Los Angeles Times at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-german-glendale-20111222,0,7519414.story
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Title: Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011
Body: From http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/23/achievements-abound-for-native-american-languages-in-2011-68390 Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011 By ICTMN Staff December 23, 2011 Even though statistics say Native American languages are endangered and the U.S. Census says there are less than half a million speakers of Native languages in the country, there were a number of advancements in language revitalization and preservation throughout the year, a sampling of those are noted in this article for Ojibwe, Lakota, Squamish, Wampanoag, Cherokee, Mohawk, Inuktitut, and language spoken in Oklahoma. Read more: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/23/achievements-abound-for-native-american-languages-in-2011-68390
Source: Indian Country Today
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Title: Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011
Body: From http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/23/achievements-abound-for-native-american-languages-in-2011-68390 Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011 By ICTMN Staff December 23, 2011 Even though statistics say Native American languages are endangered and the U.S. Census says there are less than half a million speakers of Native languages in the country, there were a number of advancements in language revitalization and preservation throughout the year, a sampling of those are noted in this article for Ojibwe, Lakota, Squamish, Wampanoag, Cherokee, Mohawk, Inuktitut, and language spoken in Oklahoma. Read more: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/23/achievements-abound-for-native-american-languages-in-2011-68390
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Title: 2012: The Year Mandarin Chinese Becomes a 'Commonly Taught Language'?
Body: From http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/2012-year-mandarin-chinese-becomes-commonly-taught-language This article is part of a series of year-end posts on Asia Blog written by Asia Society experts and Associate Fellows looking back on noteworthy events in 2011: In the 1980s and 1990s, in an effort to define the territory of our field, language educators created the idea of the “less commonly taught languages,” or LCTL . What is peculiar about this notion is that it includes just about every single one of the more than 5,000 languages spoken on Planet Earth, with the exception of English and just three other languages: Spanish, French, and German. For many years, these “big three” languages were just about the only choices available to language learners in the U.S., especially at the K-12 level. According to the latest estimates from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Chinese language programs at the K-12 level in U.S. schools expanded by more than 200 percent from 2005 to 2008, and that growth shows no signs of slowing down. While in absolute terms, the number of programs and students is still comparatively small compared even to German, if this growth continues to accelerate throughout 2012, it may well be the year when Chinese loses its status as a LCTL and enters the mainstream. Read the full article at http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/2012-year-mandarin-chinese-becomes-commonly-taught-language and browse the entire series of Asia-focused 2011 retrospectives at http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/2011
Source: Asia Society
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Title: 2012: The Year Mandarin Chinese Becomes a 'Commonly Taught Language'?
Body: From http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/2012-year-mandarin-chinese-becomes-commonly-taught-language This article is part of a series of year-end posts on Asia Blog written by Asia Society experts and Associate Fellows looking back on noteworthy events in 2011: In the 1980s and 1990s, in an effort to define the territory of our field, language educators created the idea of the “less commonly taught languages,” or LCTL . What is peculiar about this notion is that it includes just about every single one of the more than 5,000 languages spoken on Planet Earth, with the exception of English and just three other languages: Spanish, French, and German. For many years, these “big three” languages were just about the only choices available to language learners in the U.S., especially at the K-12 level. According to the latest estimates from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Chinese language programs at the K-12 level in U.S. schools expanded by more than 200 percent from 2005 to 2008, and that growth shows no signs of slowing down. While in absolute terms, the number of programs and students is still comparatively small compared even to German, if this growth continues to accelerate throughout 2012, it may well be the year when Chinese loses its status as a LCTL and enters the mainstream. Read the full article at http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/2012-year-mandarin-chinese-becomes-commonly-taught-language and browse the entire series of Asia-focused 2011 retrospectives at http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/2011
Source: Asia Society
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Title: Chinese New Year
Body: From http://chineseculture.about.com Read about some Chinese New Year customs (both on the traditional date and on the western date) at http://chineseculture.about.com/od/chinesefestivals/tp/Chinese-New-Year-Celebrate-A-Chinese-Style-New-Years-Eve.htm?nl=1
Source: About.com
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Title: Chinese New Year
Body: From http://chineseculture.about.com Read about some Chinese New Year customs (both on the traditional date and on the western date) at http://chineseculture.about.com/od/chinesefestivals/tp/Chinese-New-Year-Celebrate-A-Chinese-Style-New-Years-Eve.htm?nl=1
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Title: Chinese Take-In: Listening Exercises
Body: From http://coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/taxonomy/term/631 Chinese Take-In provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback. Chinese Take-In helps first-year Chinese learners improve their listening comprehension. The design of each passage or dialogue is an attempt to approach real-life communications. The ultimate goal of these exercises is for learners of Chinese to integrate their linguistic and background knowledge when listening. Your task is to make interpretations of what you hear; this means that you must listen carefully. You may have to employ your ability to make logical inferences, just as you would when communicating in real life. All the vocabulary words and grammar structures in these exercises are based on the textbooks (PCR I & II, Lesson 1 - Lesson 40) used at the University of Texas at Austin for first-year Chinese I & II (CHI506 and CHI507) as of the fall semester of 2009. There are a total of 30 units; with the exception of the first two, each unit corresponds to a lesson in the textbooks. Visit the Chinese Take-In website at http://www.laits.utexas.edu/chinese_take_in
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Title: Chinese Take-In: Listening Exercises
Body: From http://coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/taxonomy/term/631 Chinese Take-In provides an interactive environment where first-year Chinese learners can practice listening outside the classroom according to individual needs and paces while receiving immediate feedback. Chinese Take-In helps first-year Chinese learners improve their listening comprehension. The design of each passage or dialogue is an attempt to approach real-life communications. The ultimate goal of these exercises is for learners of Chinese to integrate their linguistic and background knowledge when listening. Your task is to make interpretations of what you hear; this means that you must listen carefully. You may have to employ your ability to make logical inferences, just as you would when communicating in real life. All the vocabulary words and grammar structures in these exercises are based on the textbooks (PCR I & II, Lesson 1 - Lesson 40) used at the University of Texas at Austin for first-year Chinese I & II (CHI506 and CHI507) as of the fall semester of 2009. There are a total of 30 units; with the exception of the first two, each unit corresponds to a lesson in the textbooks. Visit the Chinese Take-In website at http://www.laits.utexas.edu/chinese_take_in
Source: COERLL
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Title: Zap Chinese: Online Lessons with Audio
Body: Access vocabulary and phrases with audio, beginning lessons, business Chinese, and a webpage on writing Chinese characters at http://www.zapchinese.com
Source: Zap Chinese
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Title: Zap Chinese: Online Lessons with Audio
Body: Access vocabulary and phrases with audio, beginning lessons, business Chinese, and a webpage on writing Chinese characters at http://www.zapchinese.com
Source: Zap Chinese
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Title: 2012 JET Memorial Invitation Program for U.S. High School Students
Body: From http://www.jflalc.org The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles (JFLA) is pleased to inform you that we are starting the application process for JET-MIP (JET Memorial Invitation Program for U.S. High School Students) 2012. Most of the expenses will be covered by the Japan Foundation, and it will be a great opportunity for Japanese learners (11th or 12th graders of 2011/12) to deepen their knowledge of Japanese language and culture IN JAPAN!! Please note that one of the new requirements is to have the candidate complete the National Japanese Exam (Level 3) conducted by NCJLT. The registration deadline for the 2012 exam is on January 31, 2012. Learn more at the JFLA website (http://www.jflalc.org ) or download an information flyer from http://www.jflalc.org/2012_JET_MIP_INFO.pdf
Source: Japan Foundation Los Angeles
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Title: 2012 JET Memorial Invitation Program for U.S. High School Students
Body: From http://www.jflalc.org The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles (JFLA) is pleased to inform you that we are starting the application process for JET-MIP (JET Memorial Invitation Program for U.S. High School Students) 2012. Most of the expenses will be covered by the Japan Foundation, and it will be a great opportunity for Japanese learners (11th or 12th graders of 2011/12) to deepen their knowledge of Japanese language and culture IN JAPAN!! Please note that one of the new requirements is to have the candidate complete the National Japanese Exam (Level 3) conducted by NCJLT. The registration deadline for the 2012 exam is on January 31, 2012. Learn more at the JFLA website (http://www.jflalc.org ) or download an information flyer from http://www.jflalc.org/2012_JET_MIP_INFO.pdf
Source: Japan Foundation Los Angeles
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Title: Russian New Years Traditions
Body: Read a blog post about Russian traditions for the new year at http://www.funrussian.com/2011/12/30/russian-new-year
Source: Russian the Fun Way
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Title: Russian New Years Traditions
Body: Read a blog post about Russian traditions for the new year at http://www.funrussian.com/2011/12/30/russian-new-year
Source: Russian the Fun Way
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Title: Russian Art in the United States
Body: Here is a growing database of museums that feature Russian art in the United States: http://artinrussia.org/category/russian-art-abroad
Source: SRAS
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Title: Russian Art in the United States
Body: Here is a growing database of museums that feature Russian art in the United States: http://artinrussia.org/category/russian-art-abroad
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