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| | Languages in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | There is a myth (known as 'the Muhlenberg Vote') that German was to be the official language of the U.S., but this is inaccurate, and based on a failed early attempt to have government documents translated into German. | | | The last wave of German immigration followed the Second World War, as post-war Germany suffered economic problems, and ethnic Germans were uprooted from their homes in Eastern Europe. | | | Russian had always been limited, especially after the assassination of the Romanov dynasty of tsars. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_in_the_United_States
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| | United States - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | The Constitution is a document that says how the government works. | | | The USA's large cultural, economic, and military influence has made foreign relations, or relations with other countries, an especially important topic in American politics, and the politics of many other countries. | | | In 1991, the US led other countries in what it calls the Persian Gulf War, after Iraq invaded Kuwait. |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
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| | For a Multilingual Turn in American Studies (Essay by Werner Sollors) |
| | Because of this history, the American Studies Association believes that the government and people of the United States have a special obligation to enable indigenous peoples to retain their languages and cultures. | | | Many linguists have devoted their professional lives to documenting and analyzing the native languages of the United States. | | | These little-studied texts raise important issues of language policies, national identity, and education, and they are especially suited to international scholarly collaboration. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/interroads/sollors1.html
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| | Teaching Ethnic Languages in the United States: Implications for Curriculum and Faculty Development |
| | The Task Force believes further that the study of languages with which ethnic groups in the United States identify should be widely recognized and encouraged. | | | Curiously enough, despite the historical prejudice against foreign speakers and despite the official disdain of language educators, ethnic languages have not disappeared in this country. | | | For some time, professionals saw the teaching of a second dialect as the primary or only aim in instructing bilinguals. |
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http://www.mla.org/adfl/bulletin/V11N3/113031.htm
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| | WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--U.S. Government Information Sources |
| | AFSA publishes the Foreign Service Journal for "an insider's view on how U.S. foreign policy is made." The Electronic Research Collection is a searchable archive of historical online materials from the Department of State Web site, as posted from 1993 to the present. | | | The Federation of American Scientists also posts Congressional Research Service Reports on international security issues. | | | Federal Web Locator-- A central catalog to find all U.S. government agencies on the Web, from the Center for Information Law and Policy. |
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http://www2.etown.edu/vl/usgovt.html
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| | Over fifty million Americans claim to be partially or wholly of German descent, and it is no surprise that the language continues to be widely taught at the postsecondary level. | | | The percentage of all students who enroll in foreign languages has dropped over the past several decades, even though in absolute numbers there are more enrollments than ever. | | | The majority of those who come under the grouping “French, including Patois and Cajun” in New York State immigrated from Haiti, according to the Migration Information Source. |
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http://www.nlconference.org/docs/FEALCASL.doc
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| | World Languages - Reources |
| | The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages will use its delegate organizational structure and work that they have already undertaken with state representatives from the National Network for Early Language Learning and the elementary special interest groups related to ACTFL to form some initial state coalitions. | | | We will support an ongoing list of activities through a web site devoted to the Year of Languages that will be hosted by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and other collaborating organizations. | | | The United States has a history of multilingualism. |
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http://www.state.nj.us/njded/aps/cccs/wl/year.htm
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| | Tapping a National Resource: Heritage Languages in the United States |
| | Even before the events of September 11, 2001, congressional hearings had begun to document a shortage of professionals with the language proficiencies required to carry out a wide range of federal government activities. | | | Since September, the General Accounting Office has suggested that shortages of staff with foreign language expertise at several agencies "have adversely affected agency operations and hindered U.S. military, law enforcement, intelligence, counter terrorism, and diplomatic efforts" (Barr, 2002). | | | Because K-12 schooling in the United States is primarily in the hands of local, district, or state decision makers, ethnic communities with large local populations have had only mild success in convincing school systems to include their languages. |
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http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/0202brecht.html
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| | Ethnologue report for USA |
| | Ethnic population: 400,000 in Hawaii (2003 Office of Hawaiian Affairs), 18.8% of the population (1990 Hawaii State Dept. of Health), and 99,269 ethnic Hawaiians on the USA mainland (1990 census), including 24,245 in California. | | | Speakers of all Inuit languages: 75,000 out of 91,000 in the ethnic group (1995 M. Krauss). | | | Ethnic population: 120,400 including 111,400 in Oklahoma (1998 Choctaw Language Department, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma). |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=USA
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| | United Nations [encyclopedia] |
| | Before World War II, there existed a somewhat similar organization under the name of League of Nations, which can thus be considered the UN's precursor. | | | Multiple attempts by the Republic of China to re-join the UN have been rejected. | | | Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and R... |
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http://www.artzia.com/History/Ideas/UN
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| | Languages in the United States |
| | More than a million Americans also regularly speak German, Italian, and Chinese. | | | As one would expect, among foreign languages formally studied in the United States, Spanish, French, and German—in that order—are the three most popular. | | | Between 1990 and 1995, however, the Modern Language Association reported a drop in the study of French (–24.6%) and German (–27.8%). |
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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/multilingual1.html
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| | United States |
| | United States should not start war with Iraq | | | Prisoners in the United States, 1990–2004 - Year Total inmates Federal prisoners State prisoners Local jails 1990 1,148,702 58,838 684,544... | | | Great Seal of the United States - United States, Great Seal of the, official impression that validates a United States government... |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108121.html
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| | Language Link Feature Article |
| | Under the leadership of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the Year of Languages in the United States will be celebrated during the 2004-2005 school year. | | | Schools, community organizations, and government agencies at the local, state, and federal level are encouraged to get involved. | | | The Year of Languages in the United States |
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http://www.cal.org/resources/langlink/dec03feature.html
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| | FOXNews.com - CountryWatch |
| | Hundreds of languages are spoken in the United States. | | | In addition, there are several indigenous languages spoken throughout the United States rooted in the native history of the land. | | | Other spoken languages are derived from immigrant populations such as German, Italian and Chinese. |
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http://www.countrywatch.com/fox/country.asp?vCOUNTRY=182&topic=FXKEY
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| | Ethnicity in Action: Community Resources of Ethnic Languages in the United States |
| | Ethnicity in Action: Community Resources of Ethnic Languages in the United States | | | A comprehensive study of the uses and future direction of ethnic languages in the United States and an essential research and reference tool for understanding the ethnic mother tongue press, non-English broadcasting, ethnic mother tongue schools, and much more. |
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http://www.asu.edu/clas/hrc/bilingual.press/backlist/linguis/Eds1eth.html
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| | Yale > Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations > Introduction |
| | Early department faculty, such as Edward Salisbury, produced the first American scholarly studies on Arabic and Islam, cuneiform studies, and Semitic epigraphy, and founded and edited the first professional journal in America devoted to Oriental Studies. | | | Founded in 1841, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations offered the first formal program of study in Near Eastern languages in the United States. | | | Charles C. Torrey, professor of Arabic and Semitic languages, founded the first American school for research in the Near East, at Jerusalem, and directed the Jerusalem school's first archaeological excavation in 1900, as well as editing the first major text in Classical Arabic published in the United States. |
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http://www.yale.edu/nelc
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| | Teaching Indigenous Languages Home Page |
| | Native American Languages Act of 1990, which makes it government policy to promote, protect, and preserve the Indigenous languages of the United States. | | | Stabilizing Indigenous Languages, which includes papers, session summaries, and other materials from the 1994 and 1995 conferences. | | | The first two conferences were funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (as of 2002 |
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http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html
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| | Teach In China with Hodge Education China and United States Languages |
| | A full-time administrative person, fluent in English and from the United States will be in China during your teaching assignment to assist you and to document best teaching practices for future teachers. | | | Our school teaches children from eight to eighteen who are placed at one of five class levels based on their level of proficiency with English. | | | Teach In China with Hodge Education China and United States Languages |
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http://www.usl.com/employment.htm
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| | Welcome to the Year of Languages Website! - American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages |
| | American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages | | | GLOBE partners represent over half the countries in the world, and the program naturally provides authentic content resources for language teachers in all six United Nations' languages, with many more materials becoming available in other languages. | | | - American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages |
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http://www.yearoflanguages.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageid=3591
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| | United States - Languages & Countries - ICQ.com |
| | Homepage > Languages & Countries > United States | | | United States - Languages & Countries - ICQ.com | | | Great place to meet users living in the Western United States |
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http://www.icq.com/channels/browse_folder.php?tid=2620&sec=15
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003048600 |
| | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: American literature Hispanic American authors History and criticism, Language and languages in literature, Languages in contact United States, Spanish language United States, Hispanic Americans in literature, Bilingualism United States | | | "Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater." So writes Gustavo Perez Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and languages in a group of bilingual Spanish, Spanish-American and Latino writers. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003048600.html
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| | University Library Nijmegen: Item 2066/14681 |
| | Older studies on migrant languages in the United States: a model for European research? | | | There are no files associated with this item. | | | Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2066/14681
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| | VOA News - Voice of America Homepage |
| | Hiding behing terrorists to achieve a political goal: A look at efforts to deal with state sponsors of terrorism | | | Series now has a special page on the VOA site |
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| | MSN Encarta - System Difficulties |
| | Dictionary - Look up definitions, spellings, foreign language translations, and synonyms | | | Homework - Use our tips and tools to help you get your homework done faster |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?...+in+the+United+States
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