- Use It Or Lose It? Study Suggests The Brain Can Remember A 'Forgotten' Language (Sep. 25, 2009) -- Does "use it or lose it" apply to foreign languages? Although it may seem we have absolutely no memory of the neglected language, new research suggests this "forgotten" language may be more deeply ...
- Losing Your Tongue: World's Top Endangered Language Experts Gather (Nov. 3, 2009) -- More than 50 international experts in endangered languages are convening to take the first step in cataloging endangered and dying languages in a comprehensive online ...
- Linguistics Expert Warns Of Language Extinction (Mar. 4, 2007) -- Humans speak more than 6,000 languages. Nearly all of them could be extinct in the next two centuries. So what? "I claim that it is catastrophic for the future of mankind," says University of Alaska ...
- Bilingual Children More Likely To Stutter (Sep. 10, 2008) -- Children who are bilingual before the age of 5 are significantly more likely to stutter and to find it harder to lose their impediment, than children who speak only one language before this age, ...
- Exposure To Two Languages Carries Far-Reaching Benefits (May 20, 2009) -- People who can speak two languages are more adept at learning a new foreign language than their monolingual counterparts, according to researchers. And their bilingual advantage persists even when ...
1 posted on
01/31/2010 7:24:32 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
2 posted on
01/31/2010 7:25:53 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
To: SunkenCiv
I fear for the English language in the Twin Cities.....
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3 posted on
01/31/2010 7:28:03 PM PST by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Political Correctness Will Get Us All Killed)
To: SunkenCiv
Learning any language is so much like work that NOBODY should ever have to learn a dead one. An intelligent child would be likely to murder his parents in their sleep for bringing him up speaking “ob-ugrian”.
To: SunkenCiv
12 posted on
01/31/2010 9:27:56 PM PST by
Beowulf9
To: SunkenCiv
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17 posted on
02/01/2010 5:18:10 AM PST by
ThanhPhero
(di tray hoi den La Vang)
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