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Langues et cultures

Apr 2011

Languages and cultures

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Danskene skammer seg over sitt morsmal (morsmal.org)

Publisert den 30/03/11, Morsmål Danskene lider av språklige mindreverdighetskompleks. De synes ikke at dansk høres fint ut. Franskmenn tror deres språk er "très belle" (vakker). I Storbritannia mener man at engelsk "styrer verden". Men danskene er langt fra den samme språklige nasjonalselvfølelsen. Tvert imot, en...

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Apr 2011

Languages and cultures

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The Danes are ashamed of their mother language (morsmal.org)

Published on 30/03/11 The Danes suffer from linguistic inferiority complex. They do not think that Danish sounds nice. The French think their language is "très belle" (beautiful). In the United Kingdom one believes that English "rule the world". But the Danes are far from having the same linguistic national self-esteem. On the contrary, a number...

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Apr 2011

Languages and cultures

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Il plurilinguismo spagnolo (blogletteratura)

22 gennaio 2011 La situazione linguistica in Spagna è particolarmente complessa e variegata, a differenza di quanto accade in Italia. In Italia infatti l’utilizzo della lingua italiana è uno degli elementi che contraddistingue tutti i territori (le regioni, le province, i comuni) da Nord a Sud. La lingua ufficiale in Italia è ovviamente...

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Apr 2011

Languages and cultures

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El multilingüismo: una práctica generalizada en Pakistán

Publicado en Sorosoro por Matthias Weinreich el 18 de abril de 2011 Por el lingüista Matthias Weinreich, autor de « Language Shift in Northern Pakistan. The Case of Domaakí and Pashto. » ¿Pero los pakistaníes no hablan todos el urdu? Si, una gran mayoría, claro está. Y eso no tiene nada de...

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Apr 2011

Languages and cultures

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Arabic second-most common Australian tongue (AFP)

SYDNEY — Arabic is the most commonly spoken language after English by young people in Australia, a study has revealed, with about one in eight multilingual children using it in the home. The Australia Early Development Index, a government-backed study of more than 260,000 children in their first year of school, found that 18 percent spoke a language other than English. Read...

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