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...actually had someone tell me that my English was really good in my freshman year,” Hayley Margio ’10 of Halifax, Nova Scotia recalled...
During dinner, about 30 students gathered behind a Canadian flag displayed over the balcony in Annenberg and sang the national anthem ‘O Canada’ in both English and French...
...broadcaster CCTV and the Xinhua News Agency. Last year CCTV created French and Spanish channels, and this year it added Russian and Arabic. The official China Daily newspaper began publishing a U.S. edition, and the Global Times, a nationalist tabloid run by the People's Daily, launched an English-language version. In January, Liu Yunshan, the head of the Communist Party's Propaganda Department, laid out the global media strategy in Qiu Shi, a CCP magazine. "It has become an urgent strategic task for us to make our communication capability match our international status," he wrote. "Nowadays, nations which have...
Claire Beslow has read her fair share of application essays as a guidance counselor and former English teacher at Ramsey High School in New Jersey. One of the worst responses, she said, was to the University of Pennsylvania’s supplemental essay question asking students why they want to attend Penn...
...urination, is installed in virtually every public restroom. Nevertheless, ANA has apparently decided to spare its non-Japanese-speaking customers the potential embarrassment of preboarding potty talk. Though the Japanese-language announcement video at the gate for domestic departures politely advises travelers to use the bathroom before boarding, the English announcement makes no such suggestion. The English video does encourage passengers to "think about the earth and the sky above," saying that a lighter aircraft means less carbon dioxide emission, but it stops short of suggesting a preboard run to the loo. (See 50 essential travel tips...