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.
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.
The party is strongly opposed to any concessions to the Palestinians, and it defines the conflict in the Middle East not just as war for the land, but as a standoff between nations that are hostile to each other in religious terms, views on the world, language and people's aspirations.
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 cash-strapped BBC recently ended its World Service Mandarin-language short-wave broadcasts after 70 years.
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The Director-General, Irina Bokova, welcomed the initiative to hold the celebration and underlined the outstanding historical contribution of the Arabic language to world civilization.
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.
This new program at Lang allows incoming freshmen to spend their first year deeply immersed in the developing world through homestays, language study, and apprenticeships with local, civic-minded organizations.
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The combination brings together two of the world's leading English language publishers, with highly complementary skills and strengths.
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Each year Oscar organisers try to identify the best movie around the world not in the English language.
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).
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).
In an ideal world it should also have language in its bylaws promising to defend and indemnify directors (except for their own misdeeds) and pockets deep enough to back up that promise.
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"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.
Univision has agreements to get content from Mexico's Grupo Televisa--the world's largest Spanish-language media group.
Why? because it is the one language of money the world understands and knows the challenges of acquiring.
The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom.
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Seven years later launched television network TV Azteca, now nation's number 2 network and second-largest producer of Spanish-language television in the world.
Suffice it say, these are issues not of the manipulation of language, but how language changes as the world which it express changes.
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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Hence Diageo, for the merged Guinness-Grand Met, which combines the Latin for day with the Greek for world and means nothing in any language.
David Marcus, the cofounder and chief executive of Evermore Global Advisors, is bullish on Promotora de Informaciones, or Grupo Prisa, one of the world's largest Spanish-language media conglomerates.
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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The Abbey event highlighted the book's impact on English language and culture throughout the world.
They serve a rich community of learners from all over the world, crossing geographic, ethnic and language boundaries.
Creator TouchType scraped Internet language data from around the world to understand how people speak in real-life situations not by studying a dictionary.
Beyond calculations of interest, the emotional ties created by a common language and alliances in two world wars are clearly still strong.
This global influence combined with our stubborn insistence on communicating in English has finished the work begun by Great Britain, elevating our language to primacy around the world.
Only Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and English the world's most widely spoken second language have the sheer numbers of speakers to make it probable that they will survive for at least the next 300 years.
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