Different languages for different jobs in this Los Angeles restaurant Are there language requirements for working in restaurants in Los Angeles? These two employment signs that I saw in the…
Calvin N. HoMarch 25, 2013
Montana: the picture postcard state is not conducive to the empowerment of migrant women It is international women’s day today and the world’s women are on the move like never…
Ingrid PillerMarch 8, 2013
In today’s immigration countries, adherents of the “one nation, one language” idea face a unique ideological problem: to claim that the national language is a sign of national loyalty and…
Ingrid PillerMarch 4, 2013
Maxdome This is a follow-up entry to a previous entry in which I wrote about the relationship between family language learning and Easy Hide IP, a proxy server software that…
Christof Demont-HeinrichJanuary 25, 2013
The "Sorry" message of a German live-streaming site inaccessible to US-based viewers You’ve probably never heard of Easy Hide IP, an admittedly obscure software that allows you to surf the…
Christof Demont-HeinrichNovember 30, 2012
Bilingual kids are more resilient October is Mental Health month here in New South Wales. The campaign runs under the slogan “Celebrate, connect, grow” and includes some fantastic tips how…
Ingrid PillerOctober 8, 2012
Eierlaufen (egg-and-spoon race) at German Camp, USA My two daughters – whom my wife and I are raising as English-German bilinguals in the USA – have been going to German…
Christof Demont-HeinrichAugust 7, 2012
Saul Tello Jr., Orestimba High Valedictorian 2012 (Source: CBS Sacramento) When US high schools make international headlines, it’s usually because of a school shooting. But Orestimba High in Newman, a…
Ingrid PillerJuly 4, 2012
Inspired by Quantum Cloud, Younghyung Chung, 2004 (Source: risknfun.com) I don’t like the word 'choice.' So, when I recently asked someone I know well to consider an action that would…
Christof Demont-HeinrichJune 29, 2012
WSB TV report: Apple discriminates against Persian-speaking customers I’ve just found an e-mail from Apple in my spam folder with a ‘personal’ invitation to attend one of their new store…
Ingrid PillerJune 27, 2012
International symbol for deafness from Redeafined Bilingualism has been a media darling of late, and considering the intense focus of the current scientific community on bilingual brains and the breakneck…
Sara BlažićJune 25, 2012
The high price of multilingualism When society doesn’t value something you, as an individual, do, you, the individual, end up paying for society’s lack of valuation. That’s the case with…
Christof Demont-HeinrichJune 18, 2012
I’ve written before that I’ve never had an experience in which someone responded negatively to me when I speak German to my daughters in public here in the United States.…
Christof Demont-HeinrichMay 5, 2012
I’m not a big fan of what I call “breathless academic postmodernism,” or what I view as the often naïve valorization of, among other things, hybridization, creolization, liminality, polysemy, multiplicity,…
Christof Demont-HeinrichMarch 3, 2012
Have you recently had a manicure or a pedicure? I haven’t. In fact, I’ve never been to a nail salon in my life. Until about a decade ago that would…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 27, 2012
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