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unusual facts about Foreign Language


Browns River Middle School

In addition to math, science, English, history, and spelling classes, the school's curriculum also includes, but is not limited to: Technology Education, Computer Technology, Art, General Music, and Foreign Languages.


Lehman Catholic High School

Advanced Placement program in Calculus, English, Foreign Language, Biology, Chemistry, and College-preparatory in all other subject areas for grades 9-12.


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Ana Matnadze

In 2003, Matnadze graduated from the Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Foreign Language and Literature Department, with a Degree in Philology (German Language and Literature).

Artificial eye

Artificial Eye, DVD distributor in the USA and UK, specialising in foreign-language films

Bhavna Talwar

She created a controversy recently by claiming that her film Dharm (2007) should have been selected as India's official Foreign Language Film submission for the 80th Academy Awards, but was rejected in favor of Eklavya: The Royal Guard (2007) because of the personal connections of the latter film's director and producer.

Cesare Danova

Danova died of a heart attack in 1992, aged 66, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters in Los Angeles while attending a meeting of the Foreign Language Film committee.

Chinese

Standard Chinese, the standard form of the Chinese language in China, Taiwan and Singapore, and the variety most commonly taught as a foreign language

Chuck Powers

While he was there, He co-founded Voiceovers Unlimited, which specialized in the dubbing of foreign language animation into Singapore dialect English, including One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Digimon, Case Closed, Initial D and others.

Colton-Pierrepont Central School

The Foreign Language club has taken annual trips to Montreal, QC, Canada since 2006.

Daeil Foreign Language High School

The private, coeducational, college preparatory school was founded in 1983 as the first foreign language high school to be established in South Korea aiming the goal of nurturing future global leaders with remarkable foreign language abilities.

Daniela Ciancio

Her latest film “La Grande Bellezza” by Paolo Sorrentino is currently nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) in the category best movie in a foreign language.

Delcastle Technical High School

Additionally, Delcastle Technical's campus includes the Marshallton building in Marshallton, Delaware and houses the medical, foreign language studies, and business technology programs.

DLAB

Defense Language Aptitude Battery, a test used by the United States Department of Defense to test an individual's potential for learning a foreign language

Education in Ukraine

In school year 2009-2010 potential graduates are scheduled to undergo external independent testing after the final state examination, in the following subjects: Ukrainian language and literature, history of Ukraine, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, geography, and one foreign language (of the pupil's choice) in either English, German, French, or Spanish.

Edward Diller

Diller taught German at Beverly Hills High School during the 1950s and 1960s, and was foreign language coordinator of the Beverly Hills Unified School District, before joining the faculty of Colorado College.

English Language Proficiency Test

A student whose native language was not English could have chosen to take this test instead of or in addition to Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) for college entrance depending upon requirements of the schools in which the student was planning to apply.

Esmail Koushan

Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into Parsi.

Guo Moruo

His studies at this time focused on foreign language and literature, namely the works of: Spinoza, Goethe, Walt Whitman, and the Bengali poet Tagore.

Hans Neumann

A notable indoor and outdoor speaker for the SPGB (billed as Newman), he was also an enthusiastic writer for the Socialist Standard, translated foreign-language articles (including the pamphlets based on Kautsky’s Erfurter Programme) and was the author of the Party song (“The World for the Workers”).

Intercultural Communicative Competence in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

One of the well-known applications of CSCL is telecollaboration involving the use of the Internet or other computer-mediated communication tools by internationally dispersed students in order to foster the development of foreign language linguistic and intercultural competence in communication.

Josette Rey-Debove

She contributed to dictionaries for Le Robert, collaborating on the Petit Robert for the French language, at Robert des Enfants (the company's division for publishing the Children's Robert dictionaries), then to Dictionnaire du français (foreign language edition) and to Robert Méthodique-Brio.

Kaplan International Colleges

KIC also offers short, medium and long-term residential foreign language courses in China, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Russia and Spain through partner schools.

KLI

Korean Language Institute − providing instruction in Korean as a foreign language in Seoul.

Krsto Papić

1988 – My Uncle's Legacy (Život sa stricem) – nominated for the Golden Globe Award (Best Foreign Language Film)

Linda Loredo

The Hal Roach Studios produced foreign-language versions of their most popular series -- Laurel and Hardy, Charley Chase, Our Gang and Harry Langdon—for the lucrative Spanish markets in both hemispheres.

Louis Poterat

His first great successes dated to the end of the 1930s, and were his adaptations of foreign-language songs into French (J'attendrai, to music by the Italian composer Dino Olivieri, in 1938, sung by Rina Ketty ; Sur les quais du vieux Paris, to music by the German composer Ralph Erwin, the first success of the singer Lucienne Delyle, in 1939).

Maxime Rémillard

Initially focusing on film distribution, Remstar ensured the Canadian success of a number of productions, including Karakter (Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film); Monster (Academy Award for Best Actress/Charlize Theron); The Triplets of Belleville (Genie Award for Best Film); The Beat That My Heart Skipped (César for Best Film); Tanguy; and the mega-production Napoléon.

Mohan Polamar

Mohan Polamar is the founder and co-MD of Palador Pictures, a company that acquires award-winning foreign language films called world cinema and distributes them via different modes including DVD

Monkton Combe School

There are also annual (optional) visits overseas, such as an adventure course picked each year for the 3rd Form, Skiing in Austria and a Rowing training camp in Nantes-France, as well as academic trips such as foreign language exchange trips.

Music Box Films

Founded in 2007, the company's first releases were Tuya's Marriage, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, and Tell No One, the latter of which became a notable foreign-language film success in the United States, grossing over $6,000,000 and becoming the highest-grossing foreign film in the US in 2008.

Other Music Box releases have included the Academy Award-nominated film Monsieur Lazhar (nominated for Best Foreign Language Film), Séraphine (winner of seven César Awards in France), Mozart's Sister, North Face, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Names of Love.

Nanjing Foreign Language School

Nanjing Foreign Language School is widely recognized as one of the best middle/high schools in China, especially for its tradition of feeding talents to prestigious universities in China and abroad.

Nanjing Foreign Language School, (NFLS, Simplified Chinese: 南京外国语学校, or Nan-Wai (南外) for short), is a middle and high school located in Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.

Neil D. Drysdale

Drysdale studied at the University of Barcelona, and then taught English as a foreign language - but then switched his mind to horses.

Petter Næss

Næss is best known for his work directing two of the three films about Ingvar Ambjørnsen's Elling character, Elling (2000), which was nominated for the foreign language film Oscar and Elsk meg i morgen (Love Me Tomorrow), (2005), in addition to Just Bea (2003), Mozart and the Whale (2005) and Hoppet (The Jump, 2007) in Sweden.

Phi Sigma Iota

In 1982, the Society became the International Foreign Language Honor Society by installing its first Chapter in a foreign country (Universidad Regiomontana, Monterrey, Mexico).

Pyotr Konchalovsky

Nikita Mikhalkov is also a movie director who won the 1994 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for Burnt by the Sun.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

According to official statistics from departments associated with the PLA General Political Department, from 1964 to 1976, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung was published in 4 Chinese editions, 8 Chinese minority languages in 8 versions, one Braille edition, 37 foreign language version and a bilingual Chinese-English version (total 38 foreign versions), with a total printing of 1,055,498,000 copies.

Romanian Baccalaureate

: C: foreign language - oral and written examination; graded on the CEFR scale, from A1 to B2.

Second-language attrition

Weltens (1989), who studied foreign language learners, identifies an increase in reading and listening comprehension.

Steimatzky

He had originally came to the British Mandate of Palestine on a short visit for the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and decided to stay after he saw the potential in opening a foreign language bookstore that would serve a growing immigrants' market as well as British Army soldiers serving under the British Mandate.

StoryBox

International schools that teach English as a Second Language (ESL - update of the previous English as a Foreign Language - EFL) allow their students to subscribe en masse to StoryBox as it aids their students improvement in English while they are at home.

The Kings of the Kilburn High Road

Adapted into a motion picture Kings, directed by Tom Collins, and premiered at the Taormina Film Festival (Italy) June 2006, and selected as Ireland's official entry for the 2008 Academy Awards for best foreign-language film.

The Sacred War

There are a number of foreign-language adaptations of this song, among them the German version Der Heilige Krieg (written by Stephan Hermlin) and the Hungarian version Fel, küzdelemre, hõs haza.

Triple Espresso

The production in Belgium was the first foreign-language version of the show, playing in the city of Ghent, in Flemish.

A second foreign language production in German has played in Munich and Berlin.

University of California Education Abroad Program

The study abroad program offers students academic opportunities abroad in English, for learning a foreign language and culture, or for taking courses in the language of a host institution.

Xenonym

Equivalent terms are exonym ("outside name") and endonym ("inside name"), used especially in toponomastics for place names (toponyms) deriving either from a local language (endonym) or from a distant/foreign language (exonym).