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English as a global language

Global toys in a local world

Recently, I had occasion to visit a toy store in Isfahan to buy a present for my seven-year-old cousin, who had invited me to his birthday party. Grand, impressive and…
Intercultural communication

تمسخر لهجه ها

Amoo ('Uncle') Poorang Persian version of my recent post about "Ridiculing accents" Translated by Behnam Keimasi (بهنام کیماسی) آیا مایه گذاشتن از اقلیت‌های زبانی برای سرگرم کردن کودکان کار درستی…
English as a global language

Barbarous multilingual devil worshippers

I’ve just run a search for the terms “multilingual” and “multilingualism” in the National Library of Australia’s archive of Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954. In the process, I have learnt that…
Language and law
Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English
Multilingual histories
Erasing diversity
Reza's well-used Japanese-Persian and English-Persian dictionaries
Multilingual families
A tale of two foreigners in Japan
Language in education
Does a language have to be European to be ‘modern’?
http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/product/samsung-gear-vr/samsung-gear-vr-review-2015-19/
Language politics
Will technology make language rights obsolete?
English and ASEAN
English as a global language
English and ASEAN