China's state-owned broadcaster has launched an aggressive international push to extend the country's influence, opening a new headquarters in Washington that will broadcast English-language programming from the heart of the US capital.
Next Wednesday is one of the most important days of the next decade for soccer in the United States. That's when bids are due in Zürich, Switzerland, for the U.S. broadcast rights for World Cups '18 and '22. ESPN, NBC and Fox are expected to bid for the English-language rights, while Univisión and NBC-owned Telemundo are expected to be in competition for the Spanish-language rights. After the bids are submitted on Wednesday -- there will be no formal presentations, as there were for the Olympic rights bids earlier this year -- the FIFA executive committee will meet on Thursday and could reach a decision on the winners as soon as that day.
Earlier this week, al Qaeda issued the seventh issue of Inspire, a glossy English-language online magazine that emerged as a mouthpiece for the preaching of now-dead American-Yemeni terrorist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
This rural community in the southeast corner of Iowa is one of the last places you would expect to find a large number of students who don't speak English, yet English language learners have had a huge effect on the schools there, according to Columbus Community Schools Superintendent Rich Bridenstine.
CNN's Ed Lavandera reports on four Afghan women training as military helicopter pilots in Texas.
In a flower-filled courtyard near San Antonio, adult education students gather during a break, some celebrating the passage of final English exams and some discussing an upcoming social event.
"YOU SEE, what we need here is some cleaning-up liquid, some disinfectant. Would it be possible for you to bring me some?"
One of my first jobs in China was teaching English through songs on CCTV, China's national television station.
Libya gets its first English-speaking online radio station. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
In a room padded with foam and spray-painted with graffiti, the new sounds of rebellion in Libya are being broadcast online.
In the years prior to his death on Sunday Osama bin Laden had stepped back from the day-to-day running of al Qaeda. Increasingly he had preferred instead to act as a symbolic figurehead for the global terrorist movement.
Anderson Cooper takes a closer look at two fake photos of Osama bin Laden and breaks down how they were constructed.
President Barack Obama took to the Spanish-language network airwaves Monday to discuss challenges in educating Hispanics students.
OMG! It is no longer a just a teenage expression, but officially a word found in the dictionary.
It's the best of times and the worst of times for English teachers as they find themselves more accountable than ever for the academic success of their students, while balancing new technologies that change time-honored practices of reading and writing. Here are some of the modern challenges that language arts teachers face in their classrooms.
Tencent, the world's third largest Internet company by market share, launched its popular instant messenger service in English, Japanese and French.
On November 3 law enforcement agents secretly watched as a young Hispanic convert to Islam surfed the internet at a public location in Woodlawn, Maryland, a western suburb of Baltimore. What they saw, according to court documents, followed a pattern of online radicalization that has caused counterterrorism officials plenty of anxiety in recent years.
Defendants with limited English-language skills have a constitutional right to court interpreters in criminal trials, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled Monday.
Hiroshi Mikitani, the maverick CEO of e-commerce website Rakuten, wants his company's employees to only speak English.
Are years of e-mails, text messaging and status updates finally affecting the written word?
Edwin Newman, the longtime NBC newsman and expert on the English language, has died, NBC said Wednesday.
Wanted by the Drug Enforcement Administration: Ebonics translators.
We're getting to the point where even good news comes wrapped in bad news.
Al Qaeda has launched this week what it is calling its first English language online magazine, a move that could be seen as a way to recruit more American-born terrorists.
Here's the thing: Sometimes we're selling our ideas, sometimes we're selling our products and, these days, many of us are selling ourselves as the best candidate for the job.
All non-European immigrants to the United Kingdom must pass a basic English language test before being granted a visa under new rules announced by the government Wednesday.
A quick baguette for Friday. We'll be back Sunday with Midterm Grades...
An event as big as a volcano that disrupts transportation around the globe might be expected to have its name added to the English lexicon, perhaps meaning "to cause widespread disruption," an English-language monitor said Tuesday.
Can you pronounce Eyjafjallajökull? Neither can the media. CNN's Jeanne Moos avoids volcanic name-dropping.
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."
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.
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.
Minorities are becoming the majority in a places you might not expect - America's heartland. CNN's Sean Callebs reports.
U.S. communities are changing complexion as ethnic diversity grows in the American heartland.
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.
Mothers get classes on how to read report cards, motivate kids to learn. CNN's Kate Bolduan reports.
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.
1. Based on the information in the program, what is the scope of the damage caused by recent winter storms in Kentucky?
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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.
Watch a music video inspired by Youssif's journey.
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.
As part of a sentence, a judge mandates that two Pennsylvania criminals learn the English language. WBRE's Mike Trim reports.
In this 2006 report from CNN's Mary Snow, famous cheesesteak house Geno's serves up a heaping helping of controversy.
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.
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
Fortune: Adios, Bangaloreupdated: Thu Sep 27 2007 23:14:00
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.
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.
English languageupdated: Fri Jun 15 2007 17:38:00
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 ...
HR: Hugh Remmington ZZ: Zhang Ziyi
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.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Forget the Super Bowl. Who really cares about the Winter Olympics?
FSB: Scrap Mettleupdated: Thu Jan 19 2006 15:46:00
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.
Long a favorite of burly tattoo wearers, "mother" really is the word when it comes to beauty, an international survey has found.
Fortune: THE NEW WILD WESTupdated: Mon Oct 04 2004 00:01:00
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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