The company's next goal is to develop a video game that would require players to use a native language to survive in a virtual world.
The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom.
As he described, the Anglosphere was a persistent force that created a common world culture via land, language, and law (the common law, which originated in Anglo-Saxon culture).
Beyond calculations of interest, the emotional ties created by a common language and alliances in two world wars are clearly still strong.
They would argue that new translation tools from Google, Microsoft, and others herald a world in which a smartphone or Internet app instantly translates your words into the language of the listener on the other side of the call.
"It is an honor and a privilege to preside over the jury of a festival that proves, again and again, that cinema is the language of the world, " Spielberg was quoted as saying in a statement by the Cannes festival organizers.
Historians and sociologists of science have made a convincing case that language plays a crucial role in the production of knowledge about the natural world.
If you are one of the few that develops this subject matter expertise you will have achieved fluency in a new language and everyone in the business world you encounter will immediately recognize this.
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The celebrations for World Arabic Language Day continued with a ceremony to nominate Mr Metin Arditi as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his work with young Israeli and Palestinian musicians through his Instruments for Peace Foundation.
By the nineteenth century, the dream of constructing a philosophical language capable of expressing universal truths had given way to the equally ambitious desire to unite the world through a single, easy-to-learn, politically neutral, auxiliary language.
This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.
Language comes at the world from a different angle, more oblique but in its own way just as telling, if you read it right.
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Considering that the entire futuristic Korean story is performed by its characters in plain English, and that we have no reason to believe that these later post-apocalyptic humans would even incorporate English into their own language, it feels less like a world-building method, and more like the writers being unnecessarily clever.
More competent visitors to the site can build a world from scratch using the tool's own programming language known as metamarkup.
At first, Megan and Michael took the difference in stride, seeking programs that would help Jacob acquire language and find a place in the hearing world.
It sounds very inside baseball, but the partnership means that millions of students from around the world can now receive a free education in their preferred language.
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The number of specialist announcers on the World Service English language service will shrink and a new management team will work across distribution, channel management and commissioning.
The pre-eminence of the City as a financial centre and of English as the language of world business are also both vital in pulling in foreign workers.
Through my own experience as an Asian living in a western world, I came to truly understand what poor new immigrants face when confronted by a completely different culture and language.
"You are working very closely with people from a different culture, different language, different part of the world but you build common bonds around shared priorities, " Cotton said.
These days Brazil ranks among the countries with the worst English language competency in the world, according to a report released last week by Education First (EF), a worldwide educational company.
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Even in a virtual world, communication is heavily dependent on two-way body language cues.
In valleys and villages half a world away, they remember him -- the American who spoke their language, who respected their culture and who helped them defend their country.
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As a result, they are trapped in the language of absolutes, viewing the world only in black and white.
She quickly moved to the Science Unit as a reporter writing daily stories for the World Service's 40 or so foreign language sections.
The big question: can the world economy in its current condition sustain the advancement of English as a language of international business in the foreseeable future?
Handed down over centuries from master to pupil, it is the only whistled language in the world that is fully developed and practised by a large community (more than 22, 000 inhabitants).
Google Print also complemented efforts within the company to develop perfect machine language translation, which means that some day a scanned book will theoretically be readable in any language, anywhere in the world.
Mr Bellos shows that the world is very eager to familiarise itself with English, both as a vehicular language, (routinely used in the corridors of the EU, and in academia for example) and as a literary language.
But Ms. Sutton, a confessed devotee of Sinatra and Tony Bennett, is closer to that realm of quality saloon singing than she is to the Sarah Vaughans and Ella Fitzgeralds of this world, whose liberties with melody and rhythm seemed unforced, like a first language...
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