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FRENCH THE NEW LINGUA FRANCA OFA THE WORLD VRAIMENT?
Perhaps if Macron's dream of the global primacy of the French language doesn't succeed in this world, it will in the next... READ MORE›
IS PRINCE HARRY'S ENGAGEMENT PROOF THAT A BRITISH ACCENT STILL RULES THE DATING WORLD?
A Time Out survey from 2015, which polled 11,000 people in 24 cities around the world, also found that a British accent was the most attractive on the planet... READ MORE›
VIETNAM US FIRMS SIGN MOUS DURING TRUMPS VISIT
U.S truck maker Navistar International Corp NAV.N signed an MoU on commercial truck business with Vietnamese Hoang Huy Joint Stock Co... READ MORE›
F-WORD IS NOT VULGAR IN FRENCH-LANGUAGE BROADCASTS, CANADIAN WATCHDOG RULES
In the second, Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong could be heard saying it in a concert excerpt... READ MORE›
GOVERNMENT HIT WITH 'SURGE' OF CITIZENSHIP APPLICATIONS AFTER DUTTON'S BILL FAILS IN SENATE
Immigration Department sees spike in applications after the Turnbull Government's controversial overhaul was struck down in the Senate... READ MORE›
DEFYING DONALD TRUMP, EUROPEAN UNION LEADERS COMMIT TO IRAN NUCLEAR ACCORD
The EU leaders called the 2015 deal a pillar of efforts to reduce the global nuclear threat... READ MORE›
FOUR BRITISH MISSIONARIES KIDNAPPED IN NIGERIA
Britons snatched by unidentified gunman in Nigeria's southern Delta state on 13 October, say police... READ MORE›
NO DEAL BREXIT COULD PLACE A?500M A YEAR ADDED STRAIN ON NHS, HEALTH CHIEFS WARN
No deal Brexit could place A?500m a year added strain on NHS, health chiefs warn... READ MORE›
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 'ESSENTIAL'
Education Minister Simon Birmingham will tell an education conference in Hobart on Thursday the government will introduce new English language standards for students in 2018... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP: COULD YOU PASS THE PROPOSED ENGLISH TEST?
But the reform would create a separate English language exam, administered under the International English Language Testing System IELTS ... READ MORE›
ALSTOM CONFIRMS TIE-UP TALKS WITH SIEMENS, DISCUSSIONS ON-GOING
"No final decision has been made, discussions are on-going and no agreement has been reached," Alstom said in a statement after Le Monde newspaper reported advanced talks were under way... READ MORE›
A PRO-BREXIT EDITORIAL WRITTEN IN GERMAN HAS A PROBLEM
Sixty-one percent of Britons do not speak another language in addition to their mother tongue, according to a 2012 report from the European Commission... READ MORE›
TRUMP INCREASES FUNDING FOR IRMA IN PUERTO RICO, US VIRGIN ISLANDS
President Trump increased federal assistance to Hurricane Irma-ravaged Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, the White House announced on Sunday... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : English Language
NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS ARE THE WORLDS WORST COMMUNICATORS
Relating to your audience With non-native English speakers in the majority worldwide, it's Anglophones who may need to up their game... READ MORE›
WHY HASN'T AUSTRALIA DEVELOPED MORE DIVERSE REGIONAL ACCENTS?
But we have a lot of trouble identifying reliably whether someone's from Brisbane or Melbourne or Sydney or Perth... READ MORE›
FORGET THE SYRIAN REFUGEES. AMERICA NEEDS TO BRING ITS AFGHAN AND IRAQI INTERPRETERS HERE FIRST.
Interpreters are routinely killed by insurgents because they're aiding the United States... READ MORE›
'LAZY' AUSTRALIAN ACCENT CAUSED BY 'ALCOHOLIC SLUR' OF HEAVY-DRINKING EARLY SETTLERS'
G'day mate 'Lazy' Australian accent caused by 'alcoholic slur' of heavy-drinking early settlers'... READ MORE›
AND THE COUNTRY WITH THE MOST ATTRACTIVE ACCENT IS...
A British accent is the most attractive in the world, according to a poll of 11,000 people in 24 cities around the world... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP ATTACKS 'PROTECTIONIST' EU AND SAYS HE WANTS 'BIG AND EXCITING' TRADE DEAL WITH UKA
Mr Trump predicted a strengthening of the special relationship after Liam Fox insisted the issue wasA just a detail of trade negotiations.A... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP ATTACKS 'PROTECTIONIST' EU AND SAYS HE WANTS 'BIG AND EXCITING' TRADE DEAL WITH UKA
Mr Trump predicted a strengthening of the special relationship after Liam Fox insisted the issue wasA just a detail of trade negotiations.A... READ MORE›
WHAT DID JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER SAY ABOUT BRITAIN? EU CHIEF'S BREXIT REMARKS DISPUTED
Mr Juncker meets Mr Cameron in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the renegotiation... READ MORE›
WHAT THE REST OF THE WORLD WONDERS ABOUT AMERICA, ACCORDING TO GOOGLE
The autocorrect suggestions below, from different Google country pages around the world, show the most popular questions that people have about Americans... READ MORE›
PARIS ATTACKS: RCMP INVESTIGATING WHETHER VOICE ON ISIS RECORDING IS CANADIAN
Security experts and the linguists say the voice on the audio recording has telltale inflections and characteristics of Canadian English... READ MORE›
THE F-WORD IS EVEN OLDER THAN YOU THINK
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the "first definite evidence for the word, then, comes from a manuscript in Oxford (MS Brasenose College, Oxford VII), dated 1528."... READ MORE›
BREXIT COULD PUT THE UK 'SECOND RANK' FOR ACCESS TO NEW MEDICINES
It's not just that we'll be down there with Canada and Australia, six months to a year behind, we could slide further down, Whitford said... READ MORE›
WHY DIDN'T JAPAN'S FIRST LADY SPEAK TO TRUMP?
Given english isn't her first language, couldn't president trump start the conversation?... READ MORE›
NIGER DELTA VILLAGERS LOSE UK COURT BID TO SUE SHELL OVER POLLUTION
A British court has blocked Nigerian villagers' attempt to sue oil giant Shell for allegedly polluting their fishing waters and farmland... READ MORE›
ALMOST HALF OF EU DOCTORS SEEKING WORK IN UK FAILED TO PROVE ENGLISH SKILLS
After the Ubani fiasco, the GMC called for the same competence tests to apply to EU doctors too... READ MORE›
WHY NORTH KOREANS ARE DEVELOPING AN APPETITE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Chinese, rather than English, is often the language of choice - especially for students who live in border areas, according to the Ryanggang source... READ MORE›
GENDER-NEUTRAL COMMUNICATION: HOW TO DO IT
Traditional sex and gender roles have undergone dramatic transformation in recent times... READ MORE›
SHOULD WE BE FLATTERED OR WORRIED THAT THE BRITISH ACCENT TURNS FOREIGNERS ON?
British voices leave British people cold while the rest of the world are hot for them... READ MORE›
CAN FISH HAVE REGIONAL ACCENTS? THESE COD DO, SCIENTISTS SAY
Just as Britons from inner London sound vastly different to those from Liverpool, so might cod populations around the British Isles have different accents... READ MORE›
THE WELSH HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUNDS OF VISITORS
Country diary Cadair Idris, Gwynedd This diverse aural geography perhaps reflects the transformation of the Welsh hills from a rural landscape into a recreational one... READ MORE›
DO REGIONAL DIALECTS HAVE ANY PLACE IN THE MODERN WORLD?
Which raises the question are contemporary English language and dialect compatible?... READ MORE›
GRASP OF ENGLISH KEY TO INDEPENDENCE FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES AS ASSISTANCE DEADLINE LOOMS
For Al-Mahasna and his family, that will mean applying for provincial assistance through Ontario Works after January... READ MORE›
BRITAIN TELLS IMMIGRANTS TO LEARN ENGLISH LANGUAGE OR BE DEPORTED -- BUT MISSPELLS THE WORD 'LANGUAGE'
The Prime Minister is fully confident that his team speak English competently... READ MORE›
QUEUE? OBAMA'S USE OF BRITISH ENGLISH MAKES BRITS SUSPICIOUS.
The instances of Obama using queue do seem relatively rare, but they exist and they appear to be off-the-cuff comments... READ MORE›
INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF ACCENT TRAINING
A former member of the US commonwealth, the Philippines boasts higher English proficiency levels than most of its Asian neighbours... READ MORE›
'POST-TRUTH' SELECTED AS WORD OF THE YEAR BY OXFORD DICTIONARIES
The compound adjective post-truth was defined as "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."... READ MORE›
GREEK FINANCE MINISTER SAYS DEAL WITH EU WILL BE DONE, 'EVEN AT ELEVENTH HOUR'
Greek finance minister says deal with eu will be done even at eleventh hour... READ MORE›
THE GREEKLISH PROJECT AND SPEAKING HYBRID LANGUAGES
SBS Greek broadcaster and founder of the Greeklish Project Kyriakos Gold wants to share Greeklish and other hybrid languages with Australia... READ MORE›
CENSUS 2016: THE COMMUNITIES WHERE FIVE LANGUAGES ARE COMMON
Households where a non-English language is spoken rose almost two percentage points in the same period, to 22 per cent... READ MORE›
'POST-TRUTH' CHOSEN AS OXFORD DICTIONARIES WORD OF YEAR
LONDON AP -- Oxford dictionary editors have chosen their word of the year post-truth, a term sometimes used to describe the current political climate... READ MORE›