A particular method of teaching a foreign language is achieving bonus consequences, other than just gaining another tongue in which to communicate.

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Lingua Franca, presented by Maria Zijlstra, looks at all aspects of language: language old, modern, and even invented. Through interviews and prepared talks, the program features experts who analyse a single topic of interest to users and lovers of language. Examples of the sort of linguistic territory they traverse are: bi-lingual education, ebonics, the language of pornography, and the political use of words. Lingua Franca is published every Saturday.
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Folge vom 14.07.2012Extra pay-offs for learning languages
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Folge vom 07.07.2012Aleph, bet, gimmel...A pair of exhibitions currently showing at the Jewish Museum of Australia, called ‘Aleph Bet’, both focus on the Hebrew alphabet. One features a masterful investigation into the alphabet’s mystical connections with the kabbalah, by the French artist Marc Lopez Bernal; the other, playfully instructs children about the names and features of each of the 22 letters.
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Folge vom 30.06.2012New proverbsIn every language there are proverbs – little gobs of compressed cultural knowledge – passed along, usually by word of mouth, over time. But the just-published Dictionary of Modern Proverbs shows that such pithy little sayings continue to be invented in order to convey contemporary wisdom, just as they ever were.
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Folge vom 23.06.2012Poetic DutchlishA bilingual poet, in both Dutch and English, Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper explains how her poetry works, as a kind of 'Dutchlish'.