http://www.mail.com/subjects/92482-language-education.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/92482-language-education.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/2024960-to-save-endangered-languages-tribes-turn-to-tech.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a windowless conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test versions of new apps and screening for glitches. But these are no Silicon Valley techies in town for one of the city's massive electronics shows. Many are from far-flung American Indian reservations, and... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:32:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2024960-to-save-endangered-languages-tribes-turn-to-tech.html 2013-04-17T21:32:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1873032-haitian-schools-expand-use-creole-language.html CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (AP) — Teenagers in blue-and-white uniforms pour out of classrooms of this boarding school at the edge of Haiti's capital, chattering in their native language of Creole about the science test they have just taken. "Eske ou te byen konpoze?" asks one boy in the campus courtyard. In English, it translates as "How do you think you d... Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1873032-haitian-schools-expand-use-creole-language.html 2013-02-06T18:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1809548-hamas-flagship-university-grooms-hebrew-teachers.html GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas' flagship university in Gaza has a new diploma on offer — Hebrew, the official language of its arch-foe Israel. Gaza's Hamas rulers say they want to produce qualified teachers as the government gradually introduces Hebrew studies in its high schools. The aim is simple: It wants Palestinians in Gaza to learn their enemy's... Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1809548-hamas-flagship-university-grooms-hebrew-teachers.html 2013-01-09T20:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1745608-barcelona-soccer-club-defends-use-catalan.html MADRID (AP) — Long a symbol of Catalan identity, Barcelona soccer club added its voice Wednesday to a simmering political dispute between the region of Catalonia and Spain's central government. Weeks after Spain's education minister said he was drafting a proposal to make the teaching of Castilian Spanish obligatory in schools throughout the country, Barc... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1745608-barcelona-soccer-club-defends-use-catalan.html 2012-12-05T20:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1744552-class-2012-young-europeans-trapped-language.html MADRID (AP) — Maria Menendez, a 25-year-old caught in Spain's job-destroying economic crisis, would love to work in Germany as a veterinarian. Germany, facing an acute shortage of skilled workers, would love to have her. A perfect match, it seems, but something's holding her back: She doesn't speak German. The European Union was built on a grand vision of free labor markets in which talent coul... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1744552-class-2012-young-europeans-trapped-language.html 2012-12-05T11:26:00Z