Norway Rides With ‘The Wave’ For Foreign-Language Oscar Race
Norway has selected Roar Uthaug’s disaster movie “The Wave” to represent the Nordic country in the the foreign-language Oscar race. An epic tale based on the 1934 Tsunami which killed 40 people in Norway’s Tafjord, “The Wave” takes place in [...]
Oscars: Paraguay Selects ‘El Tiempo Nublado’ for Foreign-Language Category
Arami Ullon’s documentary El tiempo nublado will be Paraguay’s first ever submission for the foreign-language film category at the Academy Awards. The recently-created Paraguay Film Academy also announced on Thursday that the film – a first-person doc about the filmmaker’s [...]
Oscars: Japan Selects ’100 Yen Love’ for Foreign-Language Category
’100 Yen Love’ Courtesy of Fantasia Film Festival by Gavin J. Blair 9/3/2015 5:27pm PDT Japan’s submission for the foreign-language category at the Oscars is Masaharu Take‘s drama about a female boxer, 100 Yen Love, starring Sakura Ando. After winning the [...]
Oscars: Swiss Select ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ as Foreign Language Entry
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture (OFC) has confirmed 3D documentary “Iraqi Odyssey” as the country’s official foreign-language Oscar entry. The film tells the story of director Samir’s globalized middle-class Iraqi family, who live in New Zealand, Russia, France, the UK [...]
Bangkok blast: Suspect spoke foreign language, not English, say cops
BANGKOK: Thai police said Wednesday the prime suspect in the bombing of a Bangkok religious shrine in which 20 people died was overheard speaking a foreign language other than English. “Foreign language, not English also,” national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri [...]
Sign language approved as a foreign language in N.J. high schools
Franklin Borough students hope vibrations will aid the blind Gov. Chris Christie signed a new law Monday requiring high schools to recognize American Sign Language as meeting world language requirements. (Robert Sciarrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) TRENTON — [...]
Student is rewarded for creative poem in foreign language – Morpeth Herald
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Joliet Catholic Academy honors students inducted into foreign language honor …
Joliet Catholic Academy recently held a ceremony to honor students who were inducted into one of the school’s three foreign language national honor societies. Angels and Hilltoppers completing four years of their respective foreign language were also recognized. The following [...]
Foreign language study bridges gaps in communication
Many studies suggest studying a foreign language promotes a healthy mind and increases a person’s potential lifetime earnings, but because of budget cuts in primary schools and constricting course of study plans, many APSU students do not study a foreign [...]
Pine Bush and the Pledge: What is National Foreign Language Week?
National Foreign Language Week. Who would have thought that a 58-year-old annual observance could turn so controversial that some school officials across the state would be reluctant to discuss it? Well, it has. When the celebration was launched back in [...]