Hong Kong Transforming Apartment
A specially designed apartment in Hong Kong that is able to be rearranged. Related Articles: Global multitasking: it’s in her DNA Japanese Visitors to Australia Dalai Lama to Japanese youth: ‘Study English and see the world!’ Japanese least likely to use leave, French the most Please support my blog by clicking this blog site ranking [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - World, News Articles | Permalink | 4 Comments »New York is the City of Languages
It’s estimated that there are about 800 different languages spoken in New York City. Listening to (and Saving) the World’s Languages http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/nyregion/29lost.html Related Articles: Global multitasking: it’s in her DNA Japanese Visitors to Australia Dalai Lama to Japanese youth: ‘Study English and see the world!’ Japanese least likely to use leave, French the most Please [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - World, News Articles | Permalink | 4 Comments »Stop using English, China tells TV stations
Stop using English, China tells TV stations http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1036720 Basketball without “NBA”? The state of the economy without “GDP”? This could be the new reality for television viewers in China, as Beijing has reportedly curbed on-air use of English abbreviations. China Central Television and Beijing Television told the state-run China Daily that they had received notification [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - World, News Articles | Permalink | 4 Comments »English not OK: Chinese translator
THE ”invasion” of English words into the Chinese language must be stopped, the country’s most senior translator claims. Huang Youyi, of the International Federation of Translators, one of the country’s largest publishers, says that words such as OK, bye-bye, nice, modern and guitar are slipping into everyday Chinese and causing problems. Mr Huang said: ”If [...]
Posted by Aidan under News - World, News Articles | Permalink | 4 Comments »In Paris, the customer is not always right
The idea of service is taken very seriously in France where any feeling of subservience is strongly resisted, as Emma Jane Kirby discovered. Paris is in a bad mood. The sullen, steel-grey sky seems to be permanently snivelling sleet. The Seine, swollen against its banks, pushes and squeezes its way through the city like an [...]
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