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"We want everybody to be with at least some kind of diploma," said Pam Peralta, the district's general director of career, technical and adult education. "It's absolutely a critical step to your future career pathway." http://www.tampabay.com//all-day-all-spanish-progr/1231068

Health promoters help bridge language, service gap http://www.mysanantonio.com//Health-promoters-help-bridge-

Article: "Things lost (and gained) in Spanish translation"

Learning your native language is tricky, say adult offspring of immigrants http://www.thestar.com//1133451--learning-your-native-lang

The Slow Death of the Signature in a PIN-Code World

"The message sent by typing 'too' when it should be 'to' can literally be the difference between getting the nod or getting a no." - Here is a proofreading checklist for your résumé and cover letter.

Bilingualism is not welcome in presidential candidates - A negative ad by Newt Gingrich against Mitt Romney concludes with a jab about the former Massachusetts governor speaking French, and Jon Huntsman, who has since left the race, faced criticism for dropping some Mandarin into a presidential debate. Some observers feel the attacks go too far and could backfire.

Is it true that US Americans are too monolingual? - Author Michael Erard writes in the New York Times opinion pages about the difficult task of deciphering how bilingual our culture is in America. The presumption is that people in this country have long expected others to learn English and have resisted learning a foreign language. As it turns out, the Census Bureau has found 20% of people speak another language at home, but even that statistic fails to account for all the multilingual Americans who speak another language somewhere other than home.

What sporks have to do with smog?

A new book, Babel No More by journalist Michael Erard, traces the history of people who can do just that: hyperpolyglots, people who speak 11 or more languages.

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