Canada boosts bilingual effort for 2010 Games

The Canadian government will foot more of the bill for bilingual services at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

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Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily

The best time to learn a foreign language: Between birth and age 7. Missed that window?

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Bilingualism delays onset of dementia

People who are fully bilingual and speak both languages every day for most of their lives can delay the onset of dementia by up to four years compared with those who only know one language, Canadian scientists said on Friday.

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Sampson County Health Department employees who are in the public health sections of the department and are bilingual in Spanish will receive a salary hike of 5 percent, under an adopted policy by the county board.

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Too few people in the United States study foreign languages according to this analysis, which focuses especially on persons in the states of Ohio and Kentucky.

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Two articles: Look Who's Mr. Bilingual Newt Gingrich apparently assumes Latino communities have very short memories.

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Under Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act, any group funded by the federal government is required to provide what's called "meaningful access" to services for citizens of a different national origin.

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Bloomington boasts more than 8,500 who claim another language as their mother tongue. Of those, 2,300 are Hispanic. Just two Bloomington police officers are fluent in Spanish, and there are no interpreters on the BPD payroll.

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U.S. Military, footprints around the world

Japan, Italy, Turkey, Iceland, Germany, among several other countries, all have United States Military bases in them. To get a full scope of what this means, let's turn the tables for a few minutes.

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WHETHER to teach young children a second language is disputed among teachers, researchers and pushy parents. On the one hand, acquiring a new tongue is said to be far easier when young.

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WHETHER to teach young children a second language is disputed among teachers, researchers and pushy parents. On the one hand, acquiring a new tongue is said to be far easier when young.

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"Rather than confusing babies, hearing more than one language gives newborns a mental boost, according to the new study, which tested seven-month-old infants."

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Retail giant Wal-Mart (WMT) will open its first Hispanic-focused supermarkets this summer in Arizona and Texas. The stores will feature Spanish speaking staff and new layouts, products, and signage that will be "relevant to local Hispanic customers."

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In a familiar after-work scene, professional women gather at Starbucks for chitchat and lattes. But on this Tuesday evening, each of the dozen arrives with a purpose — to use the female flair for conversation to her advantage.

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Americans have developed an admirable fondness for books, food, and music that preprocess other cultures. But for all our enthusiasm, have we lost our taste for the truly foreign?

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Though recession has hit both priavte and public sectors, if you are a bilingual Census Bureau is hiring.

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Learning a second language "boosts" brain-power, scientists believe. Researchers from University College London studied the brains of 105 people - 80 of whom were bilingual.

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Obama should look more carefully at education models that work.

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A regional cross-border newspaper for communities living near the Dutch-German border illustrates how relations between the populations have improved. The Schengen agreement has helped change the groups' attitudes toward one another.

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Like many of McCain's recent attacks, this one glances at the truth, on its way to a more politically expedient falsehood.

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Thirty states now have laws specifying that official government communications be in English, says U.S. English, a group that promotes the laws. This year such bills are under consideration in 19 legislatures.

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Nine-year-old Bianca Herlory can strike up a conversation in French, Portuguese, Spanish or English, and recently expressed an interest in learning Mandarin.

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Despite a letter with the Dover mayor's signature on it accepting an offer to translate parts of the town's website into Spanish, Mayor James Dodd now says he is still opposed to the idea.

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''Angry Chicago Latino parents threatened Tuesday to keep their kids home on test day next month if state education officials insist on giving students who are still learning English an achievement test in English.

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A US company merges with a Mexican firm, a software manufacturer establishes an office abroad, a bank opens a branch in a Portuguese-speaking community: For one reason or another, employees are finding out they had better acquire a second language. Article Tools

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The contradiction was that, in setting the ground rules for the debate, Univision had prohibited the two candidates who speak fluent Spanish -- Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd -- from answering questions in that language and insisted that all candidates answer the questions in Eng …

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I've had a chance to take a closer look at this handbook on raising bilingual children and found it informing and informal enough for most parents. One valuable section dispels many of the myths associated with early bilingual learning.

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