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UK: How important is correct spelling?

 

UK: the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary

 

Ireland: New Irish-language newspaper published

 

France: French replace English buzz words with Gallic alternatives

 

UK (Wales): Mystery shoppers to check on use of Welsh language

 

Portugal: Portuguese-speaking countries to promote their language worldwide

 

UK (Scotland): New written language of Ancient Scotland discovered

 

UK (Scotland): Schools miss language targets

 

UK (Scotland): Darling unveils development trust to boost Gaelic culture and language

 

UK: Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium

 

Malta: New Institute to promote Maltese culture, language abroad

 

EU: Translation at the European Commission: 1958 - 2010 (a history)

 

8th Annual Conference of EFNIL will be held at Thessaloniki on 2 to 4 November 2010

 

UK: Sweden-language detective series (Wallander) on UK tv with subtitles!

 

Ireland: Chase will consider putting an Irish language option on ATMs in NYC

 

For the first time in the history of the Internet, non-Latin characters are being used for top-level domains

 

Belgium : L'orthographe, ce que vous en pensez : Résultats d’une enquête

 

Japan: Government council calls for newly designating 196 kanji for common use

 

UK: Britain facing humiliating decline in foreign languages says peer

 

Ireland : Review of grammar and spelling of Irish language under way

 

South African pupils to learn in first language

 

Japanese online retailer adopts English as its official language

 

Europe's language business worth $12bn and growing

 

How to write Maltese: The debate continues

 

UK tightens English language test rules for foreign students

 

'Separate' is most commonly misspelt word

 

Speed Dating with the Low Countries

 

UK: Twitter Helping Dialects To Survive

 

Ireland: Local champ to launch book on chess in Irish

 

UK: Latin isn't a dead language - it's resurgent

 

European Research Project Investigates Linguistic Diversity

 

New information on the linguistic situation in the Baltic state

 

Belgium: Flemish-speaking Belgian minister wants English to be Europe's 'common language'

 

Language bill to expand Russian's rights in Ukraine

 

Latvians have best foreign language skills in EU

 

European Day of Languages

 

Slovak and Hungarian Foreign Ministers Agree Relations are Better

 

German language finds English voice

 

Royal Assent for official status of Welsh language

 

Protest over FG language strategy

 

For both Britain and France, the other's tongue is a talking-point

 

Why we ask individual questions 18 and 19

 

UK - £1m to help Foreign and Commonwealth Office polish up on languages

 

Estonia - National Geographic soon to be published in Estonian

 

Spain - Publicación de la Nueva Gramática básica (RAE)

 

Latvia - Language schools are doing well despite the challenging times

 

Ireland: Twitter to set up international HQ in Dublin

 

European Universities Network on Multilingualism Symposium

 

Result of EFNILEX - http://efnilex.efnil.org

 

13 - 14 September: International Conference

Theme: "Subtitles and Language Learning", Pavia, Italy

New blog:learn Aragonese

"Mal de Lenguas. Recursos para aprender aragónes". The goal of the blog is to teach short lessons of Aragonese, an endangered language mainly spoken in the northern valleys of Aragon. The blog is written in Spanish and is one of the few resources available on the Net to learn some Aragonese.

17-19 August 2012: Urban Language Seminar 10

The seminar is organised by the network on Industrialization, Language Contact and Identity Formation in China and Europe (ILCI), Utrecht, the Netherlands

22 - 24 August 2012: 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium

Theme: Language and the City, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

5 - 6 October 2012: LLLC 2012

Learner Language, Learner Corpora - LLLC 2012 - an international conference addressing learner language and language corpora, University of Oulu, Finland

Conclusions of the latest general assembly of the civil society platform

Multilingualism is essential to go further on European Integration This is one of the main conclusions of the latest general assembly of the civil society platform to promote multilingualism held in Brussels on June 29th 2012. The civil society platform for the promotion of multilingualism held its latest General Assembly with a renewed spirit to continue its efforts to promote multilingualism in Europe as one of the key elements to foster European Integration and contributing to the promotion of intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding, cultural diversity, but also mobility, employment and economic growth in Europe. The meeting was chaired by Uwe Mohr, President of the Platform, and Belen Bernaldo de Quiros, Head of the Unit of Multilingualism at the DG EAC of the European Commission. They both highlighted the strategic developments in multilingualism policy and the Council conclusions on language competences to enhance mobility.

Speech in Action

Copenhagen, Denmark 18 Mar 2013 – 22 Mar 2013 Contact: Jan Heegard Call Deadline: 2 Nov 2012

Language and Super-diversity: Explorations and Interrogations Jyväskylä, Finland

5 Jun 2013 – 7 Jun 2013 http://www.jyu.fi/superdiversity

Final Conference of the EUNoM network: "Globalization, Modernity and Knowledge. Opportunities and challenges in a Multilingual world"

Department of Applied Linguistics of Erasmushogeschool Brussel is organising the Final Conference of the EUNoM network: "Globalization, Modernity and Knowledge. Opportunities and challenges in a Multilingual world". The conference will be held at the European Parliament in Brussels (Belgium) on 18th October 2012, and will be hosted by MEP María Badía i Cutchet (S&D, Spain).