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		<title>Arabic, Persian, Hindi alphabet tutorials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Created by UCLA&#8217;s Center for World Languages to give high school heritage learners a head start before taking UCLA summer language courses. You can create a free account and use these tutorials. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>STARTALK 2012: Technology Literacy for Teaching Digital Natives</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you interested in the pedagogical principles for teaching languages in the digital age? Are you interested in learning how to set up an effective technology environment for teaching Arabic and Persian? Are you interested in designing interactive Arabic/Persian language learning around online tools and mobile apps? Are you interested in using technology tools to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bilinguals Are Smarter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Really Monolingual?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By MICHAEL ERARD Published: January 14, 2012 &#160; AMERICANS are often told that in today’s globalized world, we are at a competitive disadvantage because of our lazy monolingualism. “For too long, Americans have relied on other countries to speak our language,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said at the Foreign Language Summit in 2010. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital tools &#8216;to save languages&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world&#8217;s endangered languages, scientists believe. Of the 7,000 or so languages spoken on Earth today, about half are expected to be extinct by the century&#8217;s end. Read More]]></description>
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		<title>The World Has Changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have worked successfully on four continents and frequently speak and write on global careers despite being fluent only in English. I first went overseas in the late 1990s as an executive when few American expats spoke foreign languages. Back then, my clients happily paid interpreters. Luckily, my skills also included the humility to seek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arabic instruction on the rise after 9/11</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In exploring changes in the classroom since the 9/11 attacks occurred a decade ago, one notable development is growth in the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. To be clear, it&#8217;s still rare in comparison with most other languages, but the study of Arabic has been gaining ground in U.S. schools, in part with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLASSRoad eLearning Platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Munir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLASSRoad has developed a sophisticated eLearning platform that many of our eLearning partners are using to offer there online courses. Please see : ClassRoad Elearning Platform]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Language</title>
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		<dc:creator>Munir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese or the Sinitic language(s) is a language family consisting of languages which are mostly mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the world’s population, or over one billion people, speaks some variety of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persian/Farsi Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Munir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persian (local names:فارس, Farsi) is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is widely spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and to some extent in Armenia, Turkmanistan, Azerbaijan and Bahrain. The Persian language, whose native names are فارس Farsi, Parsi, Dari or Parsi-ye-Dari (Dari Persian), is classified by most linguists [...]]]></description>
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