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Parleremo - May 01, 2012

Do you like to order language materials from Amazon.com? Now, Parleremo has it's own affiliate store. If you buy from Amazon through our bookstore, part of the money goes towards maintaining the Parleremo site.

If you don't see something that you want, let us know and we will ad ...

Sanskrit

Parleremo - April 07, 2012 - Sanskrit

Sanskrit materials have now been added. Several links and files are there, along with some newspapers, videos, and over 300 vocabulary words.

If Bilingual Is Good, Is Trilingual Better?

The New York Times - March 20, 2012

“Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter,” Yudhijit Bhattacharjee writes in an op-ed in The New York Times. “It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.”

But if being bilingual is good, wh ...

Can foreign speakers help the Irish language survive?

BBC - March 16, 2012 - Irish

For over a century, activists have been trying to save the Irish language. Can foreign speakers help keep it alive?

At a dimly-lit bar in Washington DC, a smattering of professionals gathered around a table to drink beer and speak Irish, with levels of varying success.

They all represented cur ...

Specialist language teachers 'urgently required'

BBC - March 13, 2012

England's teacher training agency is urgently recruiting modern foreign language teachers to cope with a surge demand for the subject at GCSE.

The number of pupils set to sit language GCSEs next year has increased by 22% to 52%, it said.

The rise is thought to be tied to the English Baccalaure ...