Seventh Grader Suspended for Saying "I Love You" in Her Native Language
This still happens? *sigh*
New Guinea has by far the highest concentration of languages in the world: 1,000 out of the world’s 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than Texas, and divided into dozens of language families and isolated languages as different from each other as English is from Chinese. Nearly half of all New Guinea languages have fewer than 500 speakers, and even the largest language groups (still with a mere 100,000 speakers) were politically fragmented into hundreds of villages, fighting as fiercely with each other as with speakers of other languages.
This Is How I Study Foreign Language Vocab
This is my favorite way of studying vocab. I just use 3x5 lined index cards cut in half and then folded. The cards fit in any pocket and don’t take up any room (like a small notebook does, for example). And I can carry only the card I’m studying, instead of having to cary a bunch of other stuff (again, like carrying a notebook).
I fold each card in half because then I can test myself by looking only at the English or only at the foreign language.
Simple and effective. Oh, and it’s obviously super cheap.
English needs some pizazz (by Michael Ciancio)
Yay for English!
