CLASSE DE CATANYOL David Cirici A classe em pregunten què és això del catanyol. Els podria contestar que és una paraula de broma, inventada per fer referència al català degradat pel contacte amb una altra llengua. També els podria dir que la trobo una bestiesa, però busco una resposta una mica més acadèmica. I mentre […]
Londres amplia el seu ‘soft power’ El servei exterior de la BBC vol recuperar terreny oferint més emissions en onze noves llengües QUIM ARANDA Londres Actualitzada el 08/12/2016 21:47 La Gran Bretanya del Brexit busca alhora obrir-se a fronteres més llunyanes. I al mateix temps que el Regne Unit debat si els ciutadans comunitaris han […]
Els Redemitteln alemanys no són res en català… ni en anglès o francès!https://www.goethe.de/z/50/commeuro/303.htm https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/Framework_FR.pdf
(…) Most of us who have tried it probably feel that learning a new language is difficult, even if that new language is similar to our own. So how difficult is it to learn English and especially if your first language is quite different? The difficulty of learning a new language will depend on how […]
Editing a written text according to METM For written texts, editing involves modifying the language to improve its presentation, style, accuracy, usefulness, etc. There are many types, or ‘levels’, of editing that vary in the scope and extent of the modifications. The level best for your job depends on the type of medium (for example, […]
Toilet or lavatory? How words Britons use betray national obsession with class January 7, 2016 10.59am GMT Simon Horobin Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford Dinner is not served. Luncheon, on the other hand… Few things are as British as the notion of class – and little betrays it as effectively […]
Vanuatuans live in one of the world’s most diverse linguistic environments Anouschka Foltz Lecturer in Psycholinguistics, Bangor University Climate change is again on everyone’s mind. It conjures up images of melting glaciers, rising sea levels, droughts, flooding, threatened habitats, endangered species, and displaced people. We know it threatens biodiversity, but what about linguistic diversity? Humans […]
July 28, 2010 I’ve just arrived and have been having problems understanding how addresses work here. Can you help? There are some key differences between the way that postal addresses are written here and in other places, and sometimes the task of working out where you are trying to go is made even harder because […]
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