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Title: Article about Cherokee Language Revitalization
Body: From http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/continuingcoverage/default.aspx/Cherokee_Language/60 Trying To Save a Language Before It’s Too Late by Michael Overall June 17, 2012 Ten years ago, the Cherokee Nation took an extensive survey about the language, and the results shocked even the most pessimistic officials. Only 10,000 fluent speakers remained alive, almost all of them past middle-age. "People under 30 you could count on your fingers," said Wyman Kirk, who was one of the lead researchers. "For all practical purposes, the language would be dead within 30 or 40 years." The tribe's solution focused on an immersion program, where pre-school and elementary students would hear and speak nothing but Cherokee all day. "If you're going to have a school," Kirk said, "where are you going to get your teachers? We didn't have a textbook for the language itself, much less a textbook for teaching math in Cherokee." With NSU's help, the tribe came up with an entire grade-school curriculum from scratch, "reinventing the wheel," as Kirk put it. Now he can have a bilingual conversation with his 6-year-old son, who recently finished first grade. Read the full article and see a multimedia presentation about Cherokee language initiatives at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=709&articleid=20120617_11_A1_ULNStt946670
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Title: Article about Cherokee Language Revitalization
Body: From http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/continuingcoverage/default.aspx/Cherokee_Language/60 Trying To Save a Language Before It’s Too Late by Michael Overall June 17, 2012 Ten years ago, the Cherokee Nation took an extensive survey about the language, and the results shocked even the most pessimistic officials. Only 10,000 fluent speakers remained alive, almost all of them past middle-age. "People under 30 you could count on your fingers," said Wyman Kirk, who was one of the lead researchers. "For all practical purposes, the language would be dead within 30 or 40 years." The tribe's solution focused on an immersion program, where pre-school and elementary students would hear and speak nothing but Cherokee all day. "If you're going to have a school," Kirk said, "where are you going to get your teachers? We didn't have a textbook for the language itself, much less a textbook for teaching math in Cherokee." With NSU's help, the tribe came up with an entire grade-school curriculum from scratch, "reinventing the wheel," as Kirk put it. Now he can have a bilingual conversation with his 6-year-old son, who recently finished first grade. Read the full article and see a multimedia presentation about Cherokee language initiatives at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=709&articleid=20120617_11_A1_ULNStt946670
Source: Tulsa World
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Title: New Endangered Languages Project Website
Body: The Endangered Languages Project is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen languages under threat. Google oversaw the development and launch of this project, but the long term goal is for it to be led by true experts in the field of language preservation. As such, oversight of the project will soon transition to First Peoples' Cultural Council and The Institute for Language Information and Technology (The Linguist List) at Eastern Michigan University in coordination with the Advisory Committee. Explore the new website at http://www.endangeredlanguages.com The languages included in this project and the information displayed about them are provided by the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat), produced by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and The Institute for Language Information and Technology (The Linguist List) at Eastern Michigan University. For more information about ELCat, go to http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2792.html The launch of new website has generated a flurry of media attention to endangered languages, language documentation, and language revitalization. Here are some of the many news reports and press releases: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/355046/20120621/google-endangered-languages-project-speech-culture-video.htm http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/google-launches-endangered-language-project http://techland.time.com/2012/06/22/google-joins-fight-to-save-nearly-3000-endangered-languages/#ixzz1yd8bOp1R http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/endangered-languages-project-supporting.html http://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=5162 http://news.tangatawhenua.com/archives/18282 http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/22/tech-google-endangered-languages.html http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/21/google-sets-out-to-save-the-dying-languages-of-the-world http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/google-cataloging-endangered-languages/article4358882 http://www.vancouversun.com/life/first+nations+preserve+dying+languages+with+Google+help/6818639/story.html#ixzz1yRQbV5fN
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Title: New Endangered Languages Project Website
Body: The Endangered Languages Project is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen languages under threat. Google oversaw the development and launch of this project, but the long term goal is for it to be led by true experts in the field of language preservation. As such, oversight of the project will soon transition to First Peoples' Cultural Council and The Institute for Language Information and Technology (The Linguist List) at Eastern Michigan University in coordination with the Advisory Committee. Explore the new website at http://www.endangeredlanguages.com The languages included in this project and the information displayed about them are provided by the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat), produced by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and The Institute for Language Information and Technology (The Linguist List) at Eastern Michigan University. For more information about ELCat, go to http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2792.html The launch of new website has generated a flurry of media attention to endangered languages, language documentation, and language revitalization. Here are some of the many news reports and press releases: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/355046/20120621/google-endangered-languages-project-speech-culture-video.htm http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/google-launches-endangered-language-project http://techland.time.com/2012/06/22/google-joins-fight-to-save-nearly-3000-endangered-languages/#ixzz1yd8bOp1R http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/endangered-languages-project-supporting.html http://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=5162 http://news.tangatawhenua.com/archives/18282 http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/22/tech-google-endangered-languages.html http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/21/google-sets-out-to-save-the-dying-languages-of-the-world http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/google-cataloging-endangered-languages/article4358882 http://www.vancouversun.com/life/first+nations+preserve+dying+languages+with+Google+help/6818639/story.html#ixzz1yRQbV5fN
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Title: Links for Chinese Language Learners
Body: From http://confusedlaowai.com A collection of links to useful online resources for Chinese language learners is available at http://confusedlaowai.com/awesome-links-chinese-learners
Source: Confused Laowai
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Title: Links for Chinese Language Learners
Body: From http://confusedlaowai.com A collection of links to useful online resources for Chinese language learners is available at http://confusedlaowai.com/awesome-links-chinese-learners
Source: Confused Laowai
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Title: Taiwan Mandarin Spoken Wordlist
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2763.html If you are using or hoping to use corpora in your language curriculum and teaching, here is a new resource: The ''Taiwan Mandarin Spoken Wordlist'' was derived from the transcripts of 85 Taiwan Mandarin conversations collected and processed at Academia Sinica, with a total of 42 hours of speech recording. The recording took place from 2001 to 2003 and the speakers' age ranged from 14 to 63. You can learn more about this corpus and download it at http://mmc.sinica.edu.tw/resources_e_01.htm
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Taiwan Mandarin Spoken Wordlist
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2763.html If you are using or hoping to use corpora in your language curriculum and teaching, here is a new resource: The ''Taiwan Mandarin Spoken Wordlist'' was derived from the transcripts of 85 Taiwan Mandarin conversations collected and processed at Academia Sinica, with a total of 42 hours of speech recording. The recording took place from 2001 to 2003 and the speakers' age ranged from 14 to 63. You can learn more about this corpus and download it at http://mmc.sinica.edu.tw/resources_e_01.htm
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Videos in Spanish and Mandarin from National Geographic Kids
Body: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/?source=NavKidsHome A collection of educational videos aimed at children is available from National Geographic Kids in Spanish (http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/en-espanol-kids ) and in Mandarin (http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/mandarin-kids ). Content deals with culture, history, and the natural world.
Source: National Geographic Kids
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Title: Videos in Spanish and Mandarin from National Geographic Kids
Body: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/?source=NavKidsHome A collection of educational videos aimed at children is available from National Geographic Kids in Spanish (http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/en-espanol-kids ) and in Mandarin (http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/mandarin-kids ). Content deals with culture, history, and the natural world.
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Title: Have Fun with Russian: RIA Novosti’s Online Course
Body: From http://en.rian.ru/docs/learning_russian/faq.html The “Have Fun with Russian” site is intended to help you start or improve your learning of the Russian language. Throughout the site you will find a lot of games, quizzes, grammar, vocabulary and audio, that will make learning Russian easy. There are 12 units on the site: • Word of the day • How to say it • Audio and Pictures Games • Quizzes • Russian Grammar • Grammar & Audio • Dialogues • Business in Russia • Russian News • Travel in Russia • Russian Rock • Idioms, proverbs and sayings In addition, you will find detailed grammar tables which can be used as references when doing some of the exercises. The website is available at http://en.rian.ru/learning_russian Read a review of this resource at http://babelanmicroblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/have-fun-with-russian-learn-russian.html
Source: RIA Novosti
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Title: Have Fun with Russian: RIA Novosti’s Online Course
Body: From http://en.rian.ru/docs/learning_russian/faq.html The “Have Fun with Russian” site is intended to help you start or improve your learning of the Russian language. Throughout the site you will find a lot of games, quizzes, grammar, vocabulary and audio, that will make learning Russian easy. There are 12 units on the site: • Word of the day • How to say it • Audio and Pictures Games • Quizzes • Russian Grammar • Grammar & Audio • Dialogues • Business in Russia • Russian News • Travel in Russia • Russian Rock • Idioms, proverbs and sayings In addition, you will find detailed grammar tables which can be used as references when doing some of the exercises. The website is available at http://en.rian.ru/learning_russian Read a review of this resource at http://babelanmicroblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/have-fun-with-russian-learn-russian.html
Source: RIA Novosti
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Title: June 2012 Issue of KinoKultura Focuses on Latvian Cinema
Body: From http://www.kinokultura.com/index.html The June 2012 issue of KinoKultura is out. This issue focuses on Latvian cinema. Guest Editor: Inga Pērkone Articles: Inga Pērkone: A Brief Look at Latvian Film History Zane Balčus: Narrative Trends in Recent Latvian Fiction Film Antra Cilinska: Making Films in Latvia: Producers' Challenges Inga Pērkone: Modernism and Latvian Cinema. The Case of Herz Frank Līva Pētersone: Latvian Documentary Cinema: The New Generation Agnese Surkova: Sight and Angle in the Cinema of Latvia: Widescreen in the 1950 and 1960s Dāvis Sīmanis: Untraditional Visual Forms in Latvian Cinematography: the Soviet Period Reviews: Klāra Brūvere: The Defenders of Riga by Aigars Grauba Viktorija Eksta: 235 000 000 by Uldis Brauns Access the June issue at http://www.kinokultura.com/specials/13/latvian.shtml
Source: KinoKultura
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Title: June 2012 Issue of KinoKultura Focuses on Latvian Cinema
Body: From http://www.kinokultura.com/index.html The June 2012 issue of KinoKultura is out. This issue focuses on Latvian cinema. Guest Editor: Inga Pērkone Articles: Inga Pērkone: A Brief Look at Latvian Film History Zane Balčus: Narrative Trends in Recent Latvian Fiction Film Antra Cilinska: Making Films in Latvia: Producers' Challenges Inga Pērkone: Modernism and Latvian Cinema. The Case of Herz Frank Līva Pētersone: Latvian Documentary Cinema: The New Generation Agnese Surkova: Sight and Angle in the Cinema of Latvia: Widescreen in the 1950 and 1960s Dāvis Sīmanis: Untraditional Visual Forms in Latvian Cinematography: the Soviet Period Reviews: Klāra Brūvere: The Defenders of Riga by Aigars Grauba Viktorija Eksta: 235 000 000 by Uldis Brauns Access the June issue at http://www.kinokultura.com/specials/13/latvian.shtml
Source: KinoKultura
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Title: Annual Daltaí na Gaeilge Picnic in New Jersey
Body: Daltaí na Gaeilge invites all Gaeilgeoirí, their families and guests for a day of fun and friendship at their Annual Summer Picnic on June 30th, 2012. It's a great chance to get together casually and meet each other's family and friends while enjoying a picnic lunch at beautiful Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. For full details go to http://www.daltai.com/shop/products.php?product=Annual-Dalta%C3%AD-na-Gaeilge-Picnic-%252d-Saturday%2C-June-30%2C-2012
Source: Daltaí na Gaeilge
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Title: Annual Daltaí na Gaeilge Picnic in New Jersey
Body: Daltaí na Gaeilge invites all Gaeilgeoirí, their families and guests for a day of fun and friendship at their Annual Summer Picnic on June 30th, 2012. It's a great chance to get together casually and meet each other's family and friends while enjoying a picnic lunch at beautiful Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. For full details go to http://www.daltai.com/shop/products.php?product=Annual-Dalta%C3%AD-na-Gaeilge-Picnic-%252d-Saturday%2C-June-30%2C-2012
Source: Daltaí na Gaeilge
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Title: Columnist Learned Russian through Rock Music
Body: From http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20120618/174100608.html Deeper Than Oil: Russian Rock Lessons Marc Bennett June 18, 2012 When I first arrived in Russia in the late 1990s, knowing barely a word of the language, I found it a bore to wade through study books as I attempted to get beyond “da” and “nyet.” But if teach-yourself-Russian was a pain, my attempts to decipher the words of the country’s rock stars were much more enjoyable. The two groups that aided my Russian most back then were Kino, whose ethnic Korean singer Viktor Tsoi sang simple songs centered on themes containing useful vocabulary like “night,” “kitchen” and “rain.” Tsoi was great for getting to grips with the basics, but for a more advanced course in what they call here “the great and all-powerful Russian language,” I turned to the folk-rock group Akvarium, and the philosophical lyrics of their singer-songwriter Boris Grebenshchikov. And it turned out that Grebenshchikov had also had his own musical teachers of English – the Beatles. Read the full article at http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20120618/174100608.html
Source: RIA Novosti
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Title: Columnist Learned Russian through Rock Music
Body: From http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20120618/174100608.html Deeper Than Oil: Russian Rock Lessons Marc Bennett June 18, 2012 When I first arrived in Russia in the late 1990s, knowing barely a word of the language, I found it a bore to wade through study books as I attempted to get beyond “da” and “nyet.” But if teach-yourself-Russian was a pain, my attempts to decipher the words of the country’s rock stars were much more enjoyable. The two groups that aided my Russian most back then were Kino, whose ethnic Korean singer Viktor Tsoi sang simple songs centered on themes containing useful vocabulary like “night,” “kitchen” and “rain.” Tsoi was great for getting to grips with the basics, but for a more advanced course in what they call here “the great and all-powerful Russian language,” I turned to the folk-rock group Akvarium, and the philosophical lyrics of their singer-songwriter Boris Grebenshchikov. And it turned out that Grebenshchikov had also had his own musical teachers of English – the Beatles. Read the full article at http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20120618/174100608.html
Source: RIA Novosti
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Title: Summer Immersion Program for Teachers: Deutsche Woche Bar Harbor
Body: From http://www.aatg.org/barharbor Everyone should begin the new school year refreshed and energized with new ideas, and the immersion program Deutsche Woche Bar Harbor is the place to do that! Mark your calendars for this summer: Deutsche Woche in Bar Harbor will take place July 29-August 4 and the topic will be “Using Film in the Classroom”, featuring University of Maine’s Gisela Hoecherl-Alden. This total immersion program for middle, secondary, and college teachers of German offers lectures and hands-on workshops designed to help you acquire new ideas for teaching and to refresh your German speaking skills while networking with teaching colleagues from all over the country. For more details go to http://www.aatg.org/barharbor
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Title: Summer Immersion Program for Teachers: Deutsche Woche Bar Harbor
Body: From http://www.aatg.org/barharbor Everyone should begin the new school year refreshed and energized with new ideas, and the immersion program Deutsche Woche Bar Harbor is the place to do that! Mark your calendars for this summer: Deutsche Woche in Bar Harbor will take place July 29-August 4 and the topic will be “Using Film in the Classroom”, featuring University of Maine’s Gisela Hoecherl-Alden. This total immersion program for middle, secondary, and college teachers of German offers lectures and hands-on workshops designed to help you acquire new ideas for teaching and to refresh your German speaking skills while networking with teaching colleagues from all over the country. For more details go to http://www.aatg.org/barharbor
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