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Language and globalization

E lasciate in pace il Chinglish!

Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Italian version of my blog post about Chinglish. Translated by Emanuela Moretto Per un attimo provate a pensare che il New York Times abbia…

Ingrid PillerJuly 18, 2010

Language learning

هشدار: انگلیسی جهانی ممکن است به سلامت روانی شما آسیب برساند

Persian version of my recent blog post about the (over-)consumption of English language learning. Translated by زهره قرایی (Zohreh Gharaei) حدود ده سال پیش یک دانشجوی خارجی که از کره ی…

Ingrid PillerJuly 14, 2010

Intercultural communication

Men, English, and international romance

“Japanese guys aren’t the most popular creatures on earth when it comes to romance. Sad but true.” That’s the claim of Meiko Mochizuki Swartz, self-professed bilingual, bicultural ‘expert’ and author…

Lachlan JacksonJuly 7, 2010

Language in Australia

Not pork but bacon

Rashid is an overseas graduate student at an Australian university. He is a Muslim from the Middle East, and this is the story of how he inadvertently ate pork during…

Ingrid PillerJune 26, 2010

Language and globalization

!دست از سر چینگلیش بردارید

Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Persian version of my recent blog post about Chinglish Translated by Tahmineh Tayebi (تهمینه طیبی) & Vahid Parvaresh (وحید پرورش) تصور کنید که…

Ingrid PillerJune 21, 2010

Language and globalization

중국식 영어(칭글리쉬)도 좀 봐 주자!

Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Korean version of my recent blog post about Chinglish Translated by Sun-Young Chung (정선영) 뉴욕타임즈가 독자들로부터 그들의 재미난 금발머리 농담이나 유색인종 사람과 관련된 배꼽…

Ingrid PillerJune 7, 2010

Language and globalization

Chinglish ok, apa!

Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Malay version of my recent blog post about Chinglish Translated by Ridwan Wahid Bayangkan sekiranya akhbar New York Times meminta pembacanya menghantar ‘blonde jokes’…

Ingrid PillerJune 2, 2010

Language and migration

Domestic violence in a multilingual world

Non-English speakers’ access to emergency services in Australia is in the news again as a Melbourne man has been convicted of the murder of his wife. What makes the case…

Ingrid PillerApril 12, 2010

Language learning

Warning: Global English may harm your mental health

About ten years ago an overseas student from South Korea who was about to fail a unit I was teaching left a suicide note under my office door. She described…

Ingrid PillerMarch 16, 2010

English as a global language

Child pornography and English language learning

“Child pornography and English language learning”?! Could there be a connection?! Difficult to believe but true - I’m referring to a best selling English phrase book for Japanese high school…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江March 8, 2010

Language at work

Tipsy on multilingualism?!

English-speaking countries have a poor track record when it comes to language learning. Educators in Australia, the UK and the USA regularly bemoan that fact and call for a change…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 21, 2010

Language at work

Foreign nurses face the Kanji hurdle

Japan’s aging population and the growing number of young Japanese shunning ‘3D’ jobs (dirty, dangerous and demanding) has resulted in an increasing demand for foreign nurses and eldercare workers. In…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江February 17, 2010

Intercultural communication

“We not ship to Russia”

I went onto e-bay this weekend and, instead of the gadget I was after, found some non-standard uses of English negation: “We not ship to Russia” or “We not use…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 10, 2010

Language learning

Korean beats French

If you could choose to learn a foreign language, which one would it be? And why? Such choices are usually constrained by what is on offer. However, someone must choose…

Ingrid PillerDecember 14, 2009

Multilingual histories

The monolingual sniffer dog and the lonely rabbi

The current global order has thrown up yet another bewildering language problem: the monolingual sniffer dog! I glean the following from a recent NYT article about Rabbis in Montana: with…

Ingrid PillerDecember 11, 2009

Language politics

When your English is too good

Some people just can’t win it seems. Second language speakers are in that category. I can’t even begin to count how many people who have read a fraction of the…

Ingrid PillerNovember 19, 2009

E lasciate in pace il Chinglish!

هشدار: انگلیسی جهانی ممکن است به سلامت روانی شما آسیب برساند

Men, English, and international romance

!دست از سر چینگلیش بردارید

중국식 영어(칭글리쉬)도 좀 봐 주자!

Chinglish ok, apa!

Domestic violence in a multilingual world

Warning: Global English may harm your mental health

Child pornography and English language learning

Tipsy on multilingualism?!

“We not ship to Russia”

Korean beats French

The monolingual sniffer dog and the lonely rabbi

When your English is too good

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