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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 15:06 UTC

Tag: language

  • Friday, July 29th 2022 - 10:26 UTC

    Dissertation: Spanish-English contact in the Falkland Islands

    Yliana Rodríguez holds a PhD from the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Foreign Languages of UdelaR (Uruguay).

    By Yliana Rodríguez (*) for MercoPress – A cosmic coincidence happened to me some months ago. I was notified that my PhD defense committee only coincided on June 14, meaning that would be the date to defend my thesis about Falkland Islands English in contact with Spanish.

  • Wednesday, July 21st 2010 - 06:52 UTC

    Forty million world-wide learning Chinese at Confucius Institutes

    Institutes to spread the language and millenary culture

    Over 40 million people are learning the Chinese language and interest keeps growing as Beijing’s international influence expands world wide according to Xu Lin, Director of the Institute to promote the language overseas and head of the Confucius Institute. ”Achievements are noticeable in the promotion of Chinese language and culture.