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		<title>From schoolbook Chinese to dreaming in Chinese: foreign language learning the &#8220;real&#8221; way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susanna Zaraysky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The To Speak, Perchance To &#8216;Dream In Chinese&#8217; radio interview with Deborah Fallows, author of Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language on National Public Radio (from the US) is an excellent portrayal about how she learned Chinese in China. It shows just how important real cultural interaction is for foreign language [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <em><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129552512" target="_blank">To Speak, Perchance To &#8216;Dream In Chinese&#8217;</a></em> radio interview with Deborah Fallows, author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Chinese-Mandarin-Lessons-Language/dp/0802779131" target="_blank">Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language</a></em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Chinese-Mandarin-Lessons-Language/dp/0802779131" target="_blank"> </a>on National Public Radio (from the US) is an excellent portrayal about how she learned Chinese in China. It shows just how important real cultural interaction is for foreign language learning. She talks about how polite words like &#8220;please&#8221; and &#8220;thank you&#8221; in Chinese actually create a separation between people and are not considered mandatory for good manners, like in Western countries. This example shows how judging a foreign culture through the eyes of our own alienates us from how people really are in other cultures.</p>
<p>Read a <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129552512#129552097" target="_blank">free excerpt </a>from her book here: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129552512#129552097" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129552512#129552097 </a></p>
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		<title>Prises de vues interdites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabien Dany</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contexte : Sur les quais de la Goulette, le port de Tunis. Les pêcheurs rentrent à terre à l&#8217;aube après une sortie en mer. Arrivé à Tunis depuis quelques jours déjà, je décidai d&#8217;aller au port tôt un matin pour y prendre des photos du retour de la pêche. Je me levai alors à 5h [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contexte : Sur les quais de la Goulette, le port de Tunis. Les pêcheurs rentrent à terre à l&#8217;aube après une sortie en mer.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://pa.photoshelter.com/image/I000091sSFwFc18o"><img src="http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I000091sSFwFc18o/s" alt="Pêcheurs triant le poisson avant de le débarquer" width="400" height="266" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pêcheurs triant le poisson avant de le débarquer</p></div>
<p>Arrivé à Tunis depuis quelques jours déjà, je décidai d&#8217;aller au port tôt un matin pour y prendre des photos du retour de la pêche. Je me levai alors à 5h et me mettai en route vers le port de la Goulette avec mes appareils. Après m&#8217;être fait , déposer là où embarquent les passagers des ferrys en partance pour la France ou l&#8217;Italie, je trouve assez rapidement la direction du port de pêche. J&#8217;arrive sur le quai principal d&#8217;où déchargent les bâteaux qui reviennent d&#8217;une nuit en mer au même moment que certains acheteurs dans leurs camionnettes réfrigérées.<br />
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<p>Je remonte le quai en regardant les scènes qui se déroulent sous mes yeux. Certains équipages ont été plus chanceux que d&#8217;autres. Comme tous les jours sûrement. La sixième heure de la journée vient de démarrer, et je prends mon appareil pour profiter de la position du soleil, qui ne restera pas si basse bien longtemps. Les pêcheurs tunisiens ont sorti de la Méditerrannée toutes sortes de poissons. Les chats rôdent par dizaines dans le port en attendant les déchets de la pêche qu&#8217;on voudra bien leur laisser. Les restaurateurs et poissonniers de la ville passent les premiers. Quelques particuliers grands amateurs de poissons rôdent aussi, à la recherche du meilleur poisson pour mettre sur leur table.</p>
<p>Dans un bâteau, je vois qu&#8217;on s&#8217;affaire un peu plus qu&#8217;ailleurs. Je me rapproche et vois qu&#8217;ils n&#8217;ont pas eu le temps de mettre en caisse tout le poisson avant leur arrivée au port. Les trois jeunes hommes de cette photo sont en train de trier et mettre dans des caisses les derniers poissons épars sur le pont. Le travail est rapide. Les bras se croisent, s&#8217;entrecroisent, vite. Maquereaux dans une caisse, Sardines dans l&#8217;autre. Aloses d&#8217;un côté,  Anchois de l&#8217;autre. Vite, l&#8217;acheteur attend sur le quai. Il attrape les caisses au fur et à mesure qu&#8217;on lui passe et va les mettre dans sa camionnette.  En me rapprochant du quai, je vois la scène du dessus. C&#8217;est à la fois très graphique et coloré.  Je prends plusieurs clichés, en profitant de l&#8217;odeur vivifiante de l&#8217;iode et du poisson. L&#8217;équipage voisin est en train de plier son filet. Je change de groupe et vais prendre des clichés â côté.</p>
<p>Je vois le soleil qui monte, la peau chauffe de plus en plus. Je regarde ma montre. Sept heures viennent de passer. Quelques minutes plus tard, je suis concentré sur un petit bâteau, l&#8217;objectif penché vers son pont, en contrebas du quai. Je suis abordé par quelqu&#8217;un qui est dans mon dos, il commence par me parler en arabe, que je ne comprends pas.  Je me retourne et je vois que cette voix sort d&#8217;un uniforme de police. Je réponds poliment :  &#8220;S&#8217;bal Kheir, Bonjour Monsieur. Je ne parle pas arabe. Vous pouvez me parler en français ?.</p>
<p>- Oui, monsieur. C&#8217;est interdit de prendre des photos ici&#8221;.</p>
<p>Je ne comprends pas très bien pourquoi c&#8217;est interdit de prendre des photos des pêcheurs et j&#8217;aimerais bien continuer encore un peu, alors je cherche à argumenter.</p>
<p>- &#8220;Mais, je prends des photos des pêcheurs, je ne comprends pas.</p>
<p>- Oui, d&#8217;accord. Mais c&#8217;est interdit de prendre des photos sur le port.</p>
<p>- Je comprends bien, mais je ne prends pas des photos des infrastructures, juste des pêcheurs. Je peux même vous montrer ce que j&#8217;ai déjà pris, on ne voit que des pêcheurs dans leur bateau, mais pas le reste. Même pas ce bateau, là-bas&#8221;, dis-je en montrant un vedette toute grise qui doit appartenir aux gardes-côtes.</p>
<p>-  &#8220;C&#8217;est interdit de prendre des photos dans tout le port.</p>
<p>- Mais comment je pourrais le savoir, il n&#8217;y a aucun panneau pour le signaler ? Vous pouvez me montrer un panneau ?</p>
<p>- C&#8217;est vrai, il n&#8217;y a pas de panneau, mais c&#8217;est interdit.&#8221;</p>
<p>OK, il ne veut rien lâcher, et je me rappelle que je suis dans un pays où le président, démocratiquement élu <a title="Présidentielles tunisiennes de 2004" href="http://www.carthage.tn/fr/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=42&amp;Itemid=66&amp;limit=1&amp;limitstart=1" target="_blank">à plus de 94% des voix</a>, apparait sur la facade de certains immeubles. Je me suis fait une règle dans ce genre de cas de ne pas trop argumenter avec la police, qui de toute façon aura toujours raison. Je finis donc par acquiescer et repars penaud, vers un endroit où ça ne sera pas interdit de prendre des photos. Mais, quand même, j&#8217;aurais pris entre cinquante et cent clichés que je pourrais utiliser puisque le policier m&#8217;a juste demandé d&#8217;arrêter, mais pas d&#8217;effacer mes clichés&#8230;</p>
<p>Les autres images prises parmi les tunisiens se trouvent <a title="Galerie de photos de Tunisie" href="http://archive.fabiendany.com/c/fabdany/gallery/People-from-Tunisia/G0000W1cXAM9P4hw" target="_self">par là</a>.</p>
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		<title>Does Your Language Shape How You Think?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susanna Zaraysky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I truly enjoyed reading the article, Does Your Language Shape How You Think? by Guy Deutscher in the New York Times Magazine, because the linguist author shows how different languages appreciate color, space, directions and gendered nouns and how these differences may effect the way we see and experience the world. As a speaker of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I truly enjoyed reading the article, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;emc=eta1" target="_blank"><em>Does Your Language Shape How You Think?</em></a> by Guy Deutscher in the <em>New York Times Magazine</em>, because the linguist author shows how different languages appreciate color, space, directions and gendered nouns and how these differences may effect the way we see and experience the world.  As a speaker of seven languages and having studied three others, I know that my navigation of the Tower of Babel through my linguistic compasses forces me to think of my life in different ways. In English, I say, &#8220;I am hungry&#8221;. In French, &#8220;I have hunger.&#8221; These are two fundamentally different ways of thinking about one&#8217;s need to eat. Deustcher shows how much more profound linguistic differences can make us feel.</p>
<p>My question is: how do multilingual people see and feel the world? Do we get confused by the confluence of various directions to which our tongues point? I catch myself sometimes using the wrong sentence structure in a language when I am tired, but not everyone who is a polyglot is even consciously aware of the variations of speech patterns they have when they traverse from one language to another.</p>
<p>Below are his concluding words showing how important it is to open up one&#8217;s world and learn about how to think in another tongue. If we all did that, would the Tower of Babel still exist? Or could we all learn to understand one another?</p>
<p>&#8220;The habits of mind that our culture has instilled in us from infancy shape our orientation to the world and our emotional responses to the objects we encounter, and their consequences probably go far beyond what has been experimentally demonstrated so far; they may also have a marked impact on our beliefs, values and ideologies. We may not know as yet how to measure these consequences directly or how to assess their contribution to cultural or political misunderstandings. But as a first step toward understanding one another, we can do better than pretending we all think the same.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guydeutscher.org/" target="_blank">Guy Deutscher</a> is an honorary research fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester. His new book, from which this article is adapted, is “Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages,” to be published this month by Metropolitan Books.</p>
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		<title>First Cannibals Ate Each Other For Extra Nutrition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rudy Carrera</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Viegas of Discover News pens an utterly delightful story on a theory that the world&#8217;s first cannibals did so merely for nutritional purposes. Can you imagine a caveman looking at a fellow caveman saying, &#8220;Hmm. I&#8217;m in dire need of bone marrow. You&#8217;ll do.&#8221;? HT: Arts &#38; Letters Daily. Cross-posted at Steinblóm.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://news.discovery.com/human/first-cannibals-nutrition.html">Jennifer Viegas of Discover News pens an utterly delightful story</a> on a theory that the world&#8217;s first cannibals did so merely for nutritional purposes.  Can you imagine a caveman looking at a fellow caveman saying, &#8220;<em>Hmm.  I&#8217;m in dire need of bone marrow.  You&#8217;ll do</em>.&#8221;?</p>
<p>HT: <a href="http://www.aldaily.com/">Arts &amp; Letters Daily</a>.</p>
<p>Cross-posted at <a href="http://steinblom.info/2010/08/30/first-cannibals-ate-each-other-for-extra-nutrition/">Steinblóm</a>.</p>
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		<title>Si ou Non: Learning French debate in the UK</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read several articles from the UK criticizing the Labor government&#8217;s move in 2004 to not make it obligatory for schools to teach foreign languages to 14-16 year olds. I can&#8217;t believe a government in this day and age thinks foreign languages are not of supreme importance. This BBC piece by Will Smale, Should British [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve read several articles from the UK criticizing the Labor government&#8217;s move in 2004 to not make it obligatory for schools to teach foreign languages to 14-16 year olds. I can&#8217;t believe a government in this day and age thinks foreign languages are not of supreme importance.</p>
<p>This BBC piece by Will Smale,<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11086381" target="_blank"> Should British pupils give up studying French?</a>, shows that learning French helps Brits when traveling abroad and doing international business and that language education needs to change and be more conversation based and fun. Language ability equals cultural exploration, financial opportunities and the ability to communicate worldwide. Why wouldn&#8217;t anyone want this for their country?</p>
<p>Below are some of the main points of the article.</p>
<p><strong>Languages = Passport to international business</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><em>Russell Lawson, public affairs manager at the Federation of Small Businesses, says giving school children a solid grasp of French has always helped them go on and learn other languages.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><em>He adds: &#8220;English may be the world&#8217;s predominant business language, but if you can speak just some of another language, it can be a great help. It&#8217;s a cultural acknowledgement that you are at least trying to engage with the customer on their terms, and that can reap business rewards.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><em>There is a lot at stake for the UK economy, he adds. &#8220;If you go to the City [of London] you will find that many top ranking bankers are French &#8211; UK firms always resort to foreigners when dealing with the outside world.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>&#8211;Michel Monsauret, attache for education at the French Embassy in London</p>
<p><strong>Make languages fun!!!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><em>&#8220;You have got to make French classes more enjoyable,&#8221; he says. &#8220;French needn&#8217;t be hard to learn if taught correctly, it can even be fun.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><em>&#8220;Start by teaching children how to converse in French in any given situation, help them better express themselves in French, and it becomes a lot more enjoyable.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>&#8211;Michel Monsauret, attaché for education at the French Embassy in London</p>
<p>I fully agree with the French attaché&#8217;s comments about the financial benefits of learning French and the need to make it more interactive and fun. I emphasize making languages a part of one&#8217;s life and enjoying the learning process in my book,<em><a href="http://createyourworldbook.com/home-2/language-is-music/"> Language is Music.</a></em></p>
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		<title>VIDEO: John Carpenter &#8211; All That Glitters Is Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rudy Carrera</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Carpenter is originally from New Jersey, but has become a breath of fresh air to the sometimes stagnant Los Angeles indie music scene. He performs frequently, and has been seen at Spaceland and The Las Vegas Shakedown Festival in (where else?) Las Vegas, Nevada. His music is a combination of Scott Walker, The Velvet [...]]]></description>
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<a href="http://www.myspace.com/johnnycarpenter">John Carpenter</a> is originally from New Jersey, but has become a breath of fresh air to the sometimes stagnant Los Angeles indie music scene.  He performs frequently, and has been seen at Spaceland and The Las Vegas Shakedown Festival in (where else?) Las Vegas, Nevada.  His music is a combination of Scott Walker, The Velvet Underground, hints of The Gun Club and Joy Division, and perhaps a dash of early Roxy Music.  The man, and the band, are a record collection compressed into a tight performance troupe.</p>
<p>Cross-posted at <a href="http://amiscellany.info/2010/08/26/video-john-carpenter-all-that-glitters-is-gold/">A Miscellany of Tasteful Music</a>.</p>
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		<title>L&#8217;Immolation pour Saint Thaddée</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabien Dany</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contexte : Pendant le pèlerinage arménien en l&#8217;honneur de Saint-Thaddée, à mi-chemin entre l&#8217;église-monastère et le village d&#8217;éleveurs voisins, en bordure d&#8217;une petite rivière. Le pèlerinage en l&#8217;honneur de Saint Thaddée suivi par la communauté arménienne d&#8217;Iran battait son plein depuis l&#8217;aube du jour précédent. En ce jeudi matin de juillet, j&#8217;avais décidé d&#8217;aller prendre [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contexte : Pendant le pèlerinage arménien en l&#8217;honneur de Saint-Thaddée, à mi-chemin entre l&#8217;église-monastère et le village d&#8217;éleveurs voisins, en bordure d&#8217;une petite rivière.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://pa.photoshelter.com/image/I00000MlWV8T8ig8"><img src="http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00000MlWV8T8ig8/s" alt="Abattage dun agneau par des arméniens-iraniens." width="400" height="267" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Abattage d&#039;un agneau par des arméniens-iraniens.</p></div>
<p>Le pèlerinage en l&#8217;honneur de Saint Thaddée suivi par la communauté arménienne d&#8217;Iran battait son plein depuis l&#8217;aube du jour précédent. En ce jeudi matin de juillet, j&#8217;avais décidé d&#8217;aller prendre des clichés du site du pèlerinage depuis les crêtes des montagnes qui ensserrent ce monastère du bout du monde. Vers 8h30, j&#8217;entamais la redescente vers les pèlerins. 600 mètres de dénivelé et quelques kilomètres plus bas, je rejoindrais les pélerins. Je me rappelle avoir pensé,pendant la descente : &#8220;Peut-être  surprendrais-je quelques lève-tard en train de finir leur petit déjeuner ?&#8221;.<br />
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Ma descente progressait rapidement dans le lit d&#8217;une rivière au flot réduit par la sècheresse de l&#8217;été. Plus qu&#8217;un coude et je serais au pied du monastère. Je passais le coude et j&#8217;aperçus alors, de loin, une agitation inhabituelle au bord de la petite rivière. Un petit troupeau de mouton, gardé par deux enfants et leur père surplombait à flanc de vallon un groupe d&#8217;hommes affairés à des tâches que je ne distinguais pas encore. Je m&#8217;approche et comprend alors que les bergers du villqge voisin sont là pour vendre leurs bêtes aux pèlerins. Les moutons, choisis sur pied, sont immédiatement égorgés, dépecés puis lavés dans la rivière et débités. Cette photo témoigne de cette coutume aux relents païens qui subsiste chez les chrétiens d&#8217;Orient. Je ne sais si il faut la rapprocher des immolations pratiquées par les religions polythéistes, des sacrifices faits par les premiers juifs ou des moutons offerts pour l&#8217;Aid-el Kabir.</p>
<p>Une discussion rapide avec des bouchers improvisés m&#8217;apprend la mort d&#8217;un mouton dans ces circonstances est une façon de rendre grâce pour sa présence à ce pèlerinage. La famille qui achète et tue le mouton distribuera de la viande aux familles voisines. Je ne m&#8217;attendais pas à recevoir moi aussi ma part de l&#8217;immolation. Quand je rejoignais ma tente pour me délester de mes appareils et me reposer, je trouvais un petit sachet de viande déposé à l&#8217;abri du double-toit. Mes voisins de tente avaient fait la même découverte et nous mangerions bientôt des grillades sous le soleil des steppes du nord-ouest de l&#8217;Iran.</p>
<p>Le reportage photo complet se trouve <a title="Pèlerinage arménien en Iran" href="http://archive.fabiendany.com/c/fabdany/gallery/Saint-Thaddeus-pilgrimage-Iran/G0000m5C4U4UY4iQ" target="_self">par là</a>.</p>
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		<title>CBS interview about foreign language learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susanna Zaraysky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the link to my interview about how to learn foreign languages easily and my book Language is Music on August 22, 2010 on CBS. My interview was after the leggy Radio City Music Hall Rockettes and before a clip from &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221;. I was in good musical company:) The reporter was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is the link to my interview about how to learn foreign languages easily and my book <em><a href="http://createyourworldbook.com/home-2/language-is-music/" target="_blank">Language is Music</a></em> on August 22, 2010 on <a href="http://cbs5.com/baysunday/Susanna.Zaraysky.CBS5.2.1871382.html">CBS</a>. My interview was after the leggy Radio City Music Hall Rockettes and before a clip from &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221;. I was in good musical company:) The reporter was interested in the subject because she&#8217;s learning French and Spanish. I hope this encourages more people to learn foreign languages and see that they can do it with music, TV, movies. radio and other easy activities.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href="http://cbs5.com/baysunday/Susanna.Zaraysky.CBS5.2.1871382.html" target="_blank">link</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://cbs5.com/baysunday/Susanna.Zaraysky.CBS5.2.1871382.html" target="_blank">http://cbs5.com/baysunday/Susanna.Zaraysky.CBS5.2.1871382.html </a></p>
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		<title>Bilingual nannies in demand!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susanna Zaraysky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had heard that Chinese speaking nannies were in high demand in New York City, but I didn&#8217;t know that other languages were also popular. The article Looking for Baby Sitters:  Foreign Language is a Must in the New York Times is good news! It&#8217;s inspiring to see monolingual parents actively seeking out bilingual baby [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had heard that Chinese speaking nannies were in high demand in New York City, but I didn&#8217;t know that other languages were also popular.</p>
<p>The article <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/nyregion/19bilingual.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;hp">Looking for Baby Sitters:  Foreign Language is a Must</a> in the <em>New York Times </em>is good news! It&#8217;s inspiring to see monolingual parents actively seeking out bilingual baby sitters so that their kids will learn a foreign language. With educational games that kids can use to learn foreign languages, it&#8217;s becoming easier for parents to find fun ways to teach their children another tongue. I am a big proponent of using music and the media to learn foreign languages. Hence, I wrote a book on the topic,<a href="http://createyourworldbook.com/home-2/language-is-music/"> <em>Language is Music</em></a>, to help people use music, TV, radio, movies and other free and low-cost resources to speak another language.</p>
<p>Bravo to those parents who are teaching their kids to become global citizen!</p>
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		<title>How to learn foreign languages using music &amp; media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susanna Zaraysky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How can you speak so many languages with such good accents?&#8221; This is a common question I get as I speak seven languages (Russian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian and Italian) with perfect or almost perfect accents. I didn&#8217;t spend years majoring in foreign languages in college or specialize in pedagogy. I did take foreign [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;How can you speak so many languages with such good accents?&#8221;</p>
<p>This is a common question I get as I speak seven languages (Russian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian and Italian) with perfect or almost perfect accents.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t spend years majoring in foreign languages in college or specialize in pedagogy. I did take foreign language lessons or I taught myself with books and tapes.</p>
<p>Most importantly, I got into the rhythm of foreign tongues by listening to music and consuming media (radio, TV, movies, etc) in my target language. Language leaning can be fun. Believe me, I know. I&#8217;ve both taught and studied language. Get your groove on and learn your new language with music and the media. I explain this in my short and easy-to-read book, <em><a href="http://createyourworldbook.com/home-2/language-is-music/">Language is Music</a></em>, with tips on how to learn foreign languages using music, TV, radio, movies, the Internet and other free and low-cost resources.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my video to show you how:</p>
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