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Title: Article: Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand
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From https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/world/asia/new-zealand-maori-language.html
Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand
By Charlotte Graham-McLay
September 16, 2018
Maori is having a revival across New Zealand. Indigenous people are increasingly embracing their language, rejecting generations of stigma and shame associated with its use. And white New Zealanders are looking to Maori language and culture to help them make sense of their own cultural identity.
“This is the new New Zealand,” said Ella Henry, a Maori studies lecturer at Auckland University of Technology. “It’s not a blip in the cultural landscape. This is what New Zealand is becoming: a truly integrated place.”
As of 2013, just 3.7 percent of New Zealanders spoke the language fluently, and many predicted that it would soon die out. But analysts say Maori’s status is shifting, and a basic knowledge of the language has come to signify cultural cool in a country that continues to wrestle with its colonial and indigenous roots.
Read the full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/world/asia/new-zealand-maori-language.html
Source: New York Times
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Title: Telugu-Speaking Population Is Growing Fast in United States
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From https://qz.com/india/1399825/telugu-is-uss-fastest-growing-foreign-language/
America’s fastest growing foreign language is from south India
By Ananya Bhattacharya
September 24, 2018
Between 2010 and 2017, the number of native Telugu speakers in the US surged 86%—the largest uptick in a foreign language-speaking group—the results of a September 2018 study by Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) show. This was the highest jump among the most widely spoken foreign languages in the country, among those that had over 400,000 people speaking it.
Speakers of other popular Indian languages like Hindi and Gujarati also clocked high growth rates.
...Others, such as Bengali and Tamil speakers, have smaller populations of around 350,000 and 280,000 respectively, but they were still among the fastest-growing ones. The former logged a 57% increase while the latter, 55%.
Telugu may have grown at a higher pace but Hindi remains the most widely spoken Indian language in the US. Though, at 863,000, it is dwarfed by the 41 million speakers of Spanish.
Read the full article at https://qz.com/india/1399825/telugu-is-uss-fastest-growing-foreign-language/
Source: Quartz
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Title: Video: Lychee as a Vehicle for Comparisons
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In this 3-minute video, Angel Huang asks Chinese speakers to compare lychee with different fruits. The result is authentic language with a high frequency of comparative structures. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/S-WwUya19PA
The video links to a lesson on Mandarin HQ with more information about comparisons: https://mandarinhq.com/2018/09/making-comparisons-in-chinese/
Source: YouTube
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Title: Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York
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From http://rusdocfilmfest.org/
The Eleventh Annual RusDocFilmFest-3W, an independent documentary film festival, will take place on October 19-21, 2018, at the DCTV Center, and the School of Visual Arts. In the past ten years, this festival has screened over 200 documentaries made in Eastern Europe and the United States. RusDocFilmFest-3W features a unique representative list of contemporary documentary films, including numerous works by laureates of international film festivals. This year’s program is comprised of films made by private film studios in 2017/18 and presents a broad spectrum of aesthetic and cultural discourses.
This year the festival will present 21 documentaries whose productions were supported by the United States, Bulgaria, Georgia, Israel, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Russia, and Estonia. Independent documentary film unites all countries, and the 11th Annual RusDocFilmFest-3W program proves this.
For full details, go to http://rusdocfilmfest.org/2018-news-en
Source: Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York
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Title: Classical Association of the Middle West and South Latin Translation Contest
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From https://camws.org/awards/school.php
The Classical Association of the Middle West and South offers cash prizes, book awards, and awards of commendation to qualifying winners in its School Awards Latin Translation Contests for High School students and for College/University students. The contests will be administered between November 26 and December 7, 2018.
The registration deadline is November 1, 2018.
For full details, go to https://camws.org/awards/school.php
Source: CAMWS
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Title: National Roman Civilization Exam
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From https://www.njcl.org/Online-Exams/National-Roman-Civilization
The National Roman Civilization Exam (NRCE) is designed to test a student's knowledge of ancient Roman society. It will be administered from February 7 - March 9, 2019. The last date for registration will be February 2, 2019. Starting this year, the NRCE will be leveled. There are three different levels of difficulty: Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced.
For more details, go to https://www.njcl.org/Online-Exams/National-Roman-Civilization
Source: Junior Classical League
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Title: New Materials for Heritage Spanish
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Source: COERLL
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Title: Color Game in Spanish
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From http://www.laclasedeele.com
Here's an open-ended game organized around colors. The teacher says a color, and students make a list of 10-15 things of that color. Then students try to guess what items their partners wrote down.
Read a full, Spanish-language description of this game at http://www.laclasedeele.com/2011/07/el-juego-de-los-colores.html
Source: La Clase De ELE
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Title: 6-Minute Video Showcases Peru
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Here's a new video from National Geographic highlighting Peru. "Rhythms of Peru takes you to some of Peru's most iconic places, but also far off the tourist path." Access this video at https://youtu.be/5kXD0oRSlTY
Source: YouTube
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Title: Teaching Academic Vocabulary to English Learners
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From https://www.education.com/magazine/article/teaching-academic-vocabulary-to-english-learners/
In this short but detailed article, Sydney Snyder talks about teaching academic vocabulary to English learners: choosing which and how many words to teach in a given unit, strategies for introducing new vocabulary, activities to practice the vocabulary, and strategies to teach so that learners use the vocabulary independently.
Read the article at https://www.education.com/magazine/article/teaching-academic-vocabulary-to-english-learners/
Source: Education.com
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