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Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks, it's necessary to translate our morals into AI language.

It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language.

The author gradually improved his writing by avoiding fancy language.

She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expression.

Leo, why do you say English will become the world language? Hello, yes? No one knows for sure just how old kites are.

Ifyou can speak the language, it’s easier to get to know thecountry and its people.

I have learned many languages, but I’ve not mastered them the way the professional interpreter or translator has.

Beyond my career, my facility with languages has given me a few rare opportunities.

She could improve her foreign languages.

He has solved the mystery of language.

He has discovered it – babies don't even know that language exists – and he has found out how it works and learnt to use it appropriately

Breakfast is also associated with improved brain function, including concentration and language use.

Everybody's television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise classes.

hi, Leo, why do you say English will become the world language?

If you can speak the language, it's easier to get to know the country and its people.

Many students find English a difficult language to learn.

She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expression.

The only language that is used by more people is Chinese.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.

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So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

Although, over the years, Barbies had more than 180 different careers, including football coach, sign language teacher, ambassador, president and astronaut, her body shape hasn't changed much.

Another challenge to language survival is television.

But I think your profession is sometimes underrated, and many people think anyone who speaks more than one language can do it.

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

Even within the tropics, language diversity varies widely.

Probing the rock pools of a local beach or practising French on a language exchange can fire children's passions, boost their skills and open their eyes to life's possibilities.

simultaneous interpreting, putting someone's words into another language more or less as they speak, sounds to me like the more difficult.

The East African language of kiswahili was chosen as the official language of Kwanzaa, because it is a non-tribal language, spoken by a large portion of the African population.

The Navajos created the code in their own language.

They hypothesize that language diversity must be about history cultural differences, mountains or oceans dividing populations.

This conversational robot companion has cameras in its eyes, which allow it to track patients and use appropriate facial expressions and body language in its interactions.

To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body language, and projecting her voice so it could be heard from the judge's bench to the back door.

Turning every single word into the target language would put too much strain on the interpreter and slow down the whole process too much.

We need more scientists who can explain what they are doing in language that is convincing and understandable to the public.

Yet the residents of each village speak a completely different language.

You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.

Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like "ancestry"or "population" that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

"Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom, " says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of children.

Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

Before starting their programme, students are expected to take a language test.

Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance.

Body language can give away a lot about your mood, so standing with your arms folded can send out a signal that you are being defensive.

Children can learn a foreign language well in six months.

Children may learn the rules of language by repeating their own experiments.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.

English is a dynamic language that admits new words and recognizes changes in meaning, spelling, and usage of familiar words.

Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1000; Africa 2400; and asia and the pacific perhaps 3200, of which papua new guinea alone accounts for well over 800.

Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay.

History has witnessed the endless productions of Shakespearean plays in every major language of the world.

How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

Human development results in fewer languages.

I myself went through this searching process and found something that has changed my experience at college for the better: I discovered asl-American sign language.

I never felt an urge to learn any sign language before.

I'm going to do a one-month course at a language school and spend the rest of the time traveling.

I'm still having a hard time with the language.

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and national geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

In any language, some letters are used more than others.

In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

In order to stay she's had to prove her language skills by taking a test which requires her to write a postcard to an imaginary friend.

In the coming months, we are bringing together artists from all over the globe, to enjoy speaking Shakespeare's plays in their own language, in our globe, within the architecture Shakespeare wrote for.

It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.

It is said that body language accounts for 55 percent of a first impression while what you say just 7 percent.

It was written in simple language.

Italians always "see me as a foreigner," an outsider, even though she's stayed in the country for years and can speak the local language fluently, she said.

Italy is the latest western European country trying to control a growing immigrant population by demanding language skills in exchange for work permits, or in some cases, citizenship.

It's a bit like reading a foreign language.

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

Learning english as a second language can be a painful experience.

Many scholars are making efforts to rescue disappearing languages.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the himalayas, is following in that tradition.

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Others say it's only natural that newcomers learn the language of their host nation, seeing it as a condition to ensure they can contribute to society.

Our intensive course builds on our standard course, with 10 additional lessons per week, guaranteeing the fastest possible language learning see table below.

Our standard course guarantees a significant increase in your confidence in a foreign language, with focused teaching in all 4 skill areas----speaking, listening, reading and writing.

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She enjoys learning the itAlian language.

She was skeptical that the language requirement would encourage integration.

Some language experts believe that 10000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 1200 languages between them.

Some people worry that the new language requirement may cause conflicts among people.

Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just the physical world in this way---that they investigate human psychology and the rules of language using similar means.

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

Students are placed into classes according to their current language skills.

Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

That is where our foreign language section is.

The books are in every language — new books, ancient books, even a book on the history of iraq that is seven hundred years old.

The dictionary is out of date: many words have been added to the language since it was published.

The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven.

The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers.

The habima is the centre of hebrew-language theatre worldwide, founded in Moscow after the 1905 revolution, the company eventually settled in Tel Aviv in the late 1920s, since 1958, they have been recognised as the National Theatre of Israel.

The language in their contracts is usually harder to understand.

The language was simple, so simple I could plainly understand its meaning, yet it was still beautiful.

The latest edition: reflecting English as a dynamic language.

The majority of them take on online language test before starting their programme.

The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

The spoken languages were enough in all my interactions.

The university started some new language programs to cater for the country's Silk Road economic belt.

They were going to take a course at the ABC language school in bournemouth where Harvold works as a teacher.

Welcome to the electronic village to explore new ways of language teaching and learning.

When a student attacks a professor on the social media, the language used actually says more about the student.

In order to study particular cultures as completely as possible, he became skilled in linguistics, the study of languages, and in physical anthropology, the study of human biology and anatomy.

His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on.

The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits shared by many language which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

The most famous of these efforts was initiated by Noam Chomsky, who suggested that humans are born with an innate language-acquisition capacity that dictates a universal grammar.

Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of two previous attempts to find universality in language.

Neither of these patterns is borne out by the analysis, suggesting that the structures of the languages are lire age-specific and not governed by universals.

Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.

Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2,000 languages.

Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it.

A few generative rules are then sufficient to unfold the entire fundamental structure of a language, which is why children can learn it so quickly.

The report also advocates greater study of foreign languages, international affairs and the expansion of study abroad programs.

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom“.

The growth of the use of English as the world`s primary language for international communication has obviously been continuing for several decades.

The changes identified by David Graddol all present clear and major challenges to UK`s providers of English language teaching to people of other countries and to broader education business sectors.

The English language teaching sector directly earns nearly &1.

If left to themselves, such trends will diminish the relative strength of the English language in international education markets as the demand for educational resources in languages, such as Spanish ,Arabic or Mandarin grows and international business process outsourcing in other language such as Japanese, French and German, spreads.

His analysis should therefore end any self-contentedness among those who may believe that the global position of English is so stable that the young generation of the United Kingdom do not need additional language capabilities.

Complex international, economic, technological and culture change could start to diminish the leading position of English as the language of the world market, and UK interests which enjoy advantage from the breath of English usage would consequently face new pressures.

But even as the number of English speakers expands further there are signs that the global predominance of the language may fade within the foreseeable future.

Alongside that,many countries are introducing English into the primary-school curriculum but British schoolchildren and students do not appear to be gaining greater encouragement to achieve fluency in other languages.

But the skills they learn - how to think logically through a problem and organize the results - apply to any coding language, said Deborah Seehorn, an education consultant for the state of North Carolina.

Programming languages have a quick turnover, so the "Ruby on Rails" language they learned may not even be relevant by the time they enter the job market.