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Bilingual School

March 1st, 2010 | No Comments

I recently read a [url="http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/84361057.html?page=2#comments"]news article[/url] about a school in which I have been a substitute teacher. For reasons unknown to the general public, the principal and a teacher have been removed from their positions.

This is the only fully Spanish-bilingual school in a district with a high Latino population. Several other schools have bilingual classrooms, but at White Rock, every class is bilingual. In fact, all classroom teachers are required to speak, read, and write Spanish at the fluency of a native speaker.

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iPhone Chinese Alphabet App

January 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Good Characters, Inc has come out with a new iPhone application: Chinese Alphabet. Thankfully, the creators realize such a thing does not exist and this is for entertainment value only, to add “mystery” to your writing. Of course, everything from the Orient is mysterious…

To those gullible to think this will translate their writing into real Chinese, for just $1.99 you can sound like an idiot!

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Invented Languages

January 12th, 2010 | 2 Comments

With the popularity of the film, Avatar, linguists around the world have a new invented language to expose their geekiness: Na’vi.

Poised to join the ranks of other invented languages like Esperanto, Quenya (aka High-Elvish), and Klingon, Na’vi is sure to amass a following of nerds and linguists at future nerd conventions like Comic-con.

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