From the Defense Language Institute : Continuing Education has the goal of providing superior post-basic foreign language instruction via resident and non-resident programs to approximately 25,000 Department... vote, then rush to class to do a debate Come home from school, vote, then take the bus back to school (Everyone not voting by special ballot: please check what hours your polling station is open!

Here's the first one! I picked Sapir–Whorf because honestly—not studying right now, don't want to do this one when I'm studying :p If you want to make me write about something, head over here . W...learned from society and culture, and in turn I contribute things to this societal knowledge bank. In this sense society (and culture and language) is a giant brain with humans as little neurons

" Brainwashing [dates to] 1950, a literal translation of Chinese xi nao ." And I always thought it was the other way around :o → List of English words of Chinese origin (an example of a bad Wikipedia article) Also, just for fun: Unlikely phrases from real phrasebooks .

Bathrobe's Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese language site , by the author's own description "an armchair excursion three fascinating languages of the Orient." I found this website while searching for...Chinese order of the elements is 金木水火土 (gold–wood–water–fire–earth) - it's completely different. So it's obvious that these names were imported. Fingers point to Sumer, Mesopotamia, or ancient Egypt

My eight-year-old niece and nephew came over. They're both starting to learn English, and neither can pronounce the entire English alphabet. As their English native speaker aunt, I am bound to help them...I was doing this I realized I pronounced [u] differently in English and Mandarin. My English [u] is partly unrounded. (The unrounded version is the う u in Japanese or the 으 eu (thx y2) in Korean.