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    Shots - Health News
    Actors Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in a scene from <em>Marriage Story. </em>The award-winning 2019 film can be watched with audio description that conveys scenes to viewers who are visually impaired. But <em>Parasite, </em>another popular award-wi
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    There's A Better Way To 'Dub' Movie Audio For Visually Impaired Fans

    Aug 19, 2020
    Most non-English films made outside the U.S. are inaccessible to many of the 26.9 million visually impaired Americans. "Dubbing just tells us the dialogue," one disability rights activist explains.
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    New Nation, New You: 'Synonyms' Crosses Borders In Search Of Self

    Nov 30, 2019
    The movie is about a young Israeli man, not long out of the army, who decides to renounce his national identity. He wants to become French, but finds culture can't be changed like an outfit.
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    National Security
    In this 2011 photo, Hu Jintao, then China's president, visits the Confucius Institute at the Walter Payton College Preparatory High School in Chicago. China established more than 100 Confucius Institutes, which provide language and culture programs, at U
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    As Scrutiny Of China Grows, Some U.S. Schools Drop A Language Program

    Jul 17, 2019
    At least 13 U.S. universities have shut down their Confucius Institutes, which are funded by China's government. Critics say the program could be used to recruit spies or steal university research.
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    China Unbound
    Abbas looks at books in the library at the National University of Modern Languages. Much of the rush to learn Mandarin began after Beijing and Islamabad signed a memorandum of understanding that launched the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in 2015.
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    In Pakistan, Learning Chinese Is Cool — And Seen As A Path To Prosperity

    Oct 09, 2018
    China's billions in infrastructure investment have led to growing number of Pakistanis eager to learn Mandarin and study in China. Beijing is giving thousands of scholarships to Pakistanis.
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    Lost In Translation: The Power Of Language To Shape How We View The World

    Jan 29, 2018
    Learning new languages can help us understand other cultures and countries. Do the languages we speak also shape our thoughts?
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    There's been little investigation until now into how the brain changes as we learn a second language, and how those changes might differ from language to language, depending on differences in grammar, or similarities in the meanings of words. Students in
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    Learning German In The Name Of Science And Cross-Cultural Collaboration

    Jan 03, 2017
    Ninety young Syrian refugees are teaming up with neuroscientists in Leipzig to figure out the quickest and best way to teach German as a second language. Vocabulary first, or grammar, early on, too?
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    שלום עליכם Yiddish Las Vegas: A Music and Culture Festival

    Apr 07, 2016

    Bupkes, kibitz, kvetch, ver clempt, mensch --- these are all words that you’ve probably heard at one time or another.

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    How Do You Say, "There's An App For That," In Cherokee?

    Apr 09, 2013
    You can use your smart phone to find funny pictures of cats, review a restaurant on Yelp or buy movie tickets. Entreprenuer Don Thornton also uses them to preserve endangered languages.
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