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Afrikaans is way cooler than this

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on The Leo Africanus on 21 May 2009 By Herman Wasserman So the Afrikaans advertising award Pen … more →

Tags: advertising, Afrikaans, Culture

Preserving Languages Is About More Than Words

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on WashingtonPost.com on 5 May 2009 By Kari Lydersen Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, Marc … more →

Tags: English, Native / indigenous languages, spanish, Creole / pidgin language, Endangered / lost languages, Aboriginal languages, Russian, Irish, Quechua

Ghana Togo Mountain languages

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on Check4Links.com on 2 May 2009 landscape print Picture of the main street leading into the m … more →

Tags: Minority / local languages, Ghana Togo Mountain languages

The ‘Linguicide’ of African Culture

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on TrendUpdates.com on 29 April 2009 By GSerrano The very definition of African literature can … more →

Tags: African languages, Literature, Native / indigenous languages, Culture, Colonial language, Foreign Languages

Is education in mother tongue important for a child?1 comment

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on Gulf Times.com on 25 April 2009 Mohsen al-Suwaidy, From: Qatar The answer to this question … more →

Tags: French, Arabic, English, Native / indigenous languages, spanish, Bilingualism, Mother tongue, Foreign Languages

The Languages of South Africa

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: By Lingoproz The languages of South Africa depict the history and cultural diversity of not just one … more →

Tags: African languages, Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa / Xhosa, isiZulu / Zulu, Language services, Official Language, Sepedi / Pedi / Northern Sotho, South Africa

The power of Afrikaans ads

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on ScreenAfrica.com on 17 April 2009 Toyota continues to acknowledge the value of Afrikaans-la … more →

Tags: advertising, Afrikaans, Marketing, Native / indigenous languages

Using language to strike the right chord (in advertising)

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on BizCommunity.com on 16 April 2009 By Refilwe Tsimatsima When it comes to advertising, I hav … more →

Tags: South Africa, African languages, English, Native / indigenous languages, Tsotsi taal, use of language, Marketing, advertising

Bilingualism: The Process - The Need - Types - Behaviour - Attitude

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on Point Blank on 11 April 2009 By Usmang Salle Leinyui 1. INTRODUCTION: Bilingualism is a soc … more →

Tags: African languages, French, English, Linguistics, Bilingualism, Sociolinguistics

20 Ideas for Social Entrepreneurs - Local language blogs

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on BlackWeb2.0. com on 10 April 2009 By Jon Gosier In the first half of this article I shared … more →

Tags: Linguistics, Endangered / lost languages, Minority / local languages, Business

French and German Get Axed — Are Any Languages Thriving?

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on Finding Dulcinea.com on 9 April 2009 By Haley A. Lovett As Winona State University looks to … more →

Tags: French, Arabic, Chinese, English, german, spanish, use of language, Endangered / lost languages, Politics

African literature - Oral traditions - The nature of storytelling

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on Beibee’s blog on 9 April 2009 ByBeibee African literature Main the body of traditiona … more →

Tags: African languages, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Culture, English, geez, Hausa, Literature

Rwanda: Country's Unofficial Second Language - Luganda

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on AllAfrica.com on 2 April 2009 By Sam Ruburika You no longer hear so much Kirundi or Congole … more →

Tags: Kinyarwanda / Rwanda, Kirundi / Urundi, Swahili / Kiswahili, Native / indigenous languages, Congolese Lingala, Luganda / Ganda, lingua franca

English language and its rivals in British Parliament

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on Monitor Online on 28 March 2009 By Prof. Ali A. Mazrui The English language has rivals with … more →

Tags: academic, African languages, French, Swahili / Kiswahili, Arabic, Farsi, hindi, Afrikaans, English

Google in Your Language Project: Afaan Oromoo Goes Global

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on Gadaa.com on 27 March 2009 By Qeerransoo Biyyaa The Google in Your Language Program is a pr … more →

Tags: technology, Afaan Oromoo, African languages, Amharic, Google, Somali, Tigrigna / Tigrinya / Tigray, translation, Universal / world languages

Israel: The Language of Taxis

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on Global Voices Online.org on 25 March 2009 By Ayesha Saldanha This post is also available in … more →

Tags: Arabic, Dutch - Nederlands, Hebrew, Middle East Conflict

I can't speak Hokkien, so I'm learning Swahili

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on Asia One Electric News on 22 March 2009 By Ng Tze Yong HABARI za asubuhi, babu, wariye? Bef … more →

Tags: basque, Chinese, Culture, Egyptian, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hokkien

In what language do deaf people think?

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on StraightDope.com on 19 March 2009 By Cecil Adams, December 26, 2003 Dear Cecil: In what lan … more →

Tags: Native / indigenous languages, sign language, learning a language, use of language, deaf

How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour

lingoproz wrote 4 years ago: Found on FourHourWorkWeek.com on 19 March 2009 By Tim Ferriss Deconstructing Arabic in 45 Minutes Co … more →

Tags: learning a language, Linguistics


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