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May 19, 2012
Tight budgets squeeze out elementary foreign language programs
“People would love to have an elementary language program,’’ Bodie said. “In terms of brain development, that is the ideal time to learn a language. It’s much more difficult as we get older.” Arlington High School is in its second [...]
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Spanish language learning app includes Nuance voice technology
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Nuance Communications Inc., a Burlington company known for its Dragon voice-recognition software, said Friday that its voice technology has been is incorporated into a PlaySay language learning app designed for Apple Inc.â™s iPhone, iPad, and [...]
> Read moreMay 18, 2012
Residents Defend Foreign Languages In Schools At Budget Hearing
HILLSBOROUGH-A standing-room only crowd gathered at Orange County Department of Social Services on Thursday to comment on the County Manager’s budget proposal—and an overwhelming majority of them were there to speak out in favor of the foreign language program in [...]
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Four-year-olds to start learning two foreign languages
Mr Allan announced Scotland’s National Centre for Languages will receive £600,000 over 2012-13 to support language learning, with a fifth of this sum allocated for a pilot scheme. Announcing the initiative, the minister said: “The world is changing rapidly and [...]
> Read moreMay 17, 2012
Biting into foreign tongues
More than a decade after the state urged that students start learning a foreign language in the early grades, many local elementary schools are losing ground. Immersion programs, in which children study all of their subjects in the second language, [...]
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