Communications technology has shrunk the globe, but there remains one large boundary to all this togetherness: language.
A Hollywood remake is in the works for Stieg Larsson's international best-selling book "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
Singer Nelly Furtado is trying to cross over in a direction many artists don't ordinarily take.
Indian tourism authorities will be holding English classes for auto-rickshaw drivers in New Delhi as the city prepares to host the Commonwealth Games in 2010.
They headed to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow after news broke that Michael Jackson had died. And they're still coming.
An English-language immersion class failed Miriam Flores, her mother contended.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and will add its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
U.S. communities are changing complexion as ethnic diversity grows in the American heartland.
Israa, a 23-year-old college student, said she's worried about the job market she'll find when she graduates this year from Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, Iraq.
Communications technology has shrunk the globe, but there remains one large boundary to all this togetherness: language.
A Hollywood remake is in the works for Stieg Larsson's international best-selling book "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
Singer Nelly Furtado is trying to cross over in a direction many artists don't ordinarily take.
Indian tourism authorities will be holding English classes for auto-rickshaw drivers in New Delhi as the city prepares to host the Commonwealth Games in 2010.
They headed to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow after news broke that Michael Jackson had died. And they're still coming.
An English-language immersion class failed Miriam Flores, her mother contended.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and will add its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
U.S. communities are changing complexion as ethnic diversity grows in the American heartland.
Israa, a 23-year-old college student, said she's worried about the job market she'll find when she graduates this year from Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, Iraq.
Some mothers in suburban Washington are spending time in special classes to learn things like how how to read a report card and how to motivate their children to get the most out of their education.
Hast thou been patterning thy parlance to evoke the vernacular of William Shakespeare?
Secretary Shirley DeLucia was just doing her job when she saw Jiverly Wong walk through the door of the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, on Friday.
Layla Khalil escaped the bombs that rocked Iraq during three years of insurgent and sectarian warfare, only to be gunned down while trying to learn English in her adopted hometown, family and friends said Sunday.
People who knew the suspected gunman in Friday's shooting at an immigration services center were not surprised by his actions, the police chief in Binghamton, New York, said Saturday.
The man suspected of killing 13 people in a shooting massacre at an immigration services center in Binghamton, New York, on Friday had a troubled past that once put him on law enforcement's radar, police say.
A receptionist with a gunshot wound in her stomach played dead under her desk and called 911 on Friday after a shooting massacre in a Binghamton, New York, immigration center.
Zhanar Tokhtabayeba was in an English class at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, when a gunman entered the building and began shooting.
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The Olympics reminded me again about the four guiding principles of sports organizations. No. 1: It's much easier to run a team sport than an individual sport.
The LPGA Tour boasts players from all over the world, and it wants all of them to be able to speak English
In what's believed to be the first English-language message from al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri criticizes Pakistan's leadership and calls for Pakistanis to support the jihadist movement.
Youssif is in his bright orange Spiderman shirt -- and he's speaking in English. "Look I can jump, it's very scary," he says.
Tanya Gray, 28, works at a preschool in Florence, where she has lived for the last two years. She first moved to the city seven years ago from her home in Luxemburg, when she and a friend decided to travel to Italy's cultural capital to enroll as students.
Equipped with a small video camera, a laptop and a point of view, filmmakers Eric Byler and Annabel Park are trying to influence the heated immigration debate in a suburban Virginia county outside Washington.
In 2007, a low-budget feature by a first-time German director, "Das Leben der Anderen" won Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars. Over the next 10 weeks, the film better known to English-speaking audiences as "The Lives of Others" brought in $8.2m at the US box office.
Students will investigate Fidel Castro's rise to power and his impact on U.S.-Cuban relations.
Dear FSB: A month ago I launched a Chinese/English language exchange, 247yak.com, for people to practice speaking English and Chinese. The target audience is people in China who want to learn English and Americans who want to learn Chinese. It has 250 members, but only a few log in everyday to chat. Activity is a bit better on weekends. How do I improve the website's usage? Facebook users log in almost everyday!
The car rolled through The Winchendon (Mass.) School's postcard-perfect campus shortly before 2:30 p.m. on a late October afternoon.
Republican leaders in the House are supporting a bill that would let employers set an English only policy on the job.
Financial scandals force the closure of Japan's largest chain of English language schools, leaving many of its foreign teachers out of work -- and up in arms
Most Americans realize that when they call a bank, electronics maker or insurance provider, there's a good chance their queries will be routed to a call center outside the U.S., perhaps in India, the Philippines or other markets filled with English speakers happy to provide customer service or tech support for relatively low wages.
The Hispanic community is one of the fastest-growing minority groups in the United States. Its growing influence is changing the social, cultural and political landscape of the country.
When the hordes of spectators, dignitaries, corporate sponsors, and other assorted visitors descend on Beijing next summer for the Olympic Games, some might be surprised to discover how many locals speak good English.
With more ill and injured people unable to speak English, hospitals, clinics and rescue squads are turning to picture boards to bridge the communication gap with easily understood images.
Here are some facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting. A 2005 Pew Hispanic Center study found 73% of foreign-born Hispanics in the United States do not speak English very well, versus 54% of other foreign-born immigrants. Source: Pew Hispanic Center: Table 18 Table 19
It has emerged as the pariah term in the immigration debate. But here's why legalizing aliens makes sense
To her Chinese friends -- and Web audience of hundreds of thousands -- she's "Su Fei."
After blocking Wikipedia for nearly a year, Chinese authorities in October allowed access to most of the online encyclopedia's English-language entries and, in some cities, to the Chinese-language ...
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Joshua Rand flies to Mexico on business every few weeks but rarely takes a laptop. Instead, he uses the virtual-desktop software made by his startup, Sapotek, based in New York and Toluca, Mexico.
According to data released by the Census Bureau, the number of immigrants living in American households rose 16 percent over the last five years. We asked our readers how immigration is impacting their community. Here is a selection of your responses, some of which have been edited:
Immigration restrictionists can be so dishonest.
American businesspeople have it pretty easy, at least in terms of communicating when doing business abroad.
You might think London a curious locale from which to celebrate July 4th, or Independence Day as we say. But the city abounds with British citizens who admire our country. I spent the evening of July 4th in the vast and glorious edifice that is the English-Speaking Union, observing the 90th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of all time and certainly of World War I, the Battle of the Somme.
Tighter border controls, employer fines and guest-worker programs are among the many ideas set forth in the immigration debate.
The Scene spent the day with film director Wim Wenders in the German capital. Where are the best places to hang out in Berlin? Which film best captures the city's spirit? Send us your suggestions and ideas and read your comments below.
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What's not to love about showing up for work every day at United Scrap Metal (www.unitedscrap.com)? Just about everything--on the surface anyway. Situated on the rusty outskirts of Chicago, USM's 2...
Farmers are campaigning to remove from dictionaries the term "couch potato" which they say makes the vegetable seem unhealthy and is bad for its image.
In Hong Kong, get ready to join the business fast track.
In France, be prepared for a passionate business encounter.
He revolutionized the way that many blind people read when he invented a machine that scanned printed material and read it aloud, and when Ray Kurzweil sold the device to Xerox for $6 million, he c...
It's official in Zimbabwe and Belize, but not in the United States. This country is a notable exception to the 51 nations in which English is an official language. But a new bill in Congress aims to change that.
Long a favorite of burly tattoo wearers, "mother" really is the word when it comes to beauty, an international survey has found.
EVEN THE LOCALS GET LOST IN CHONGQING, A CITY obliterating its past before the future has been built. Once China's World War II capital, this industrial metropolis of seven million people, 1,500 mi...
We Americans make no apologies for our geographic promiscuity. No sooner have we collectively fallen in love with one dirt-cheap labor haven then we pack up and move on to the next one. So border t...
Forget about that dream vacation at the beach for a moment. If you are a student, between jobs, or just ready for a change, don't pass on a chance to spend a few weeks or a few months working overseas.
At first Richard Kidman couldn't figure out why, after 23 years of running R.D.'s Drive-In, everything seemed to be falling apart.
Here's something that has been impossible for anyone to miss: There are more experts like me spewing trends than ever before. Last year, according to my search engine, there were 372,356 articles i...
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Didier Benchimol lives in Paris. He grew up in Paris. He went to college in Paris. He runs a company founded in Paris and based in Paris. But from the moment he gets to work in the morning till he ...
Flying to Europe these days is like landing in Silicon Valley circa 1998. Office parks outside capitals from Stockholm to Rome are filling up with media companies and tech startups. Cafes are packe...
There's been a lot of bad news out there in the world economy lately. Supposed economic superpowers like Germany and Japan have fallen on hard times; Asian tigers that thought the future belonged t...
At the renowned Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, a guest wanted to go sightseeing--on an elephant.
SOME DAYS I WONDER HOW things might have been. Take today. I'm standing in the checkout line at Schnuck's grocery, waiting to buy baby food, milk, bananas and white wine, when I spy this copy of MO...
THERE'S NOT MUCH NEED FOR ANOTHER city magazine in New York," says Gretchen Worth, 33, co-owner of Asia City Publishing Ltd. in Hong Kong. "But there is here." Worth and her two partners -- Greg Du...
Carl Bernard, a senior at Connecticut College who considers himself so lucky, credits a teacher and a businessman for his change from a ninth-grade dropout to a campus leader. For many of these sur...
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HE'S A LITTLE GUY WITH A short name. But when you watch him on the soccer field, he makes you break into a BIG smile. His name is Tatu, and he's a 5 foot 6 inch, 160-pound forward for the Dallas Si...
A THREE-WEEK summer session in the U.S. looked like a nice break for MBA candidates from an innovative program to bring Western-style management education to Japan. Thus, Masaya Hirayama and some f...
They vary strikingly in size, shape, and political stripe. Yet the Pacific Rim countries developing fastest share an aptitude for melding new Western technologies with old Oriental virtues -- disci...
Harlan Hubbard was eating breakfast in Zurich when half his vision suddenly blacked out, like a partial eclipse of the sun. The clerk at the five-star hotel recommended a nearby doctor who unfortun...
WHEN IT comes to Hispanic marketing, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Remember Braniff's blooper? The airline's ads told Hispanics to fly en cuero -- or ''naked.'' Tropicana advertised jugo...
The rhetoric of some Hispanic leaders might make you think that the government must treat low-income Latinos as though they are somehow different from earlier waves of immigrants, that without such...
CONSIDER the Japanese salaryman. Along with tens of thousands of his countrymen, he comes to live and to work in America. His migration is born of spectacular success -- the rise of his homeland as...
What's wrong with Canada? It is richer in resources on a per capita basis than the United States, spends much less on defense, and has no large underclass. Yet Canada's standard of living is only a...
To Javier Quintero, 32, the woman in the Yuma, Ariz. airport looked like just another passenger. She wore ordinary clothes and was reading a thick, leather-bound book that he took to be a Bible. Wh...
On a scale where George Orwell's luminous prose rates a 10 and the documentation for the Microsoft Basic Compiler earns maybe a 2, we cannot rate $ Tass's official English-language version of the P...
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