Author: Mark Kaiser

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Which language is this (Jan/Feb)

Last month’s answer: Czech. This language ... ... is spoken by nearly 78 million people. Most of its speakers live in one of two countries where this is the official language. ... is agglutinative, with an SOV syntactic structure. …has rich honorific forms and context-sensitive speech styles to designate various distinctions in status and situation.…

Which language is this (November)?

Last month’s answer ........ Telugu. This language … is the official language of a country with approximately 10.3 million inhabitants. Significant numbers of native speakers of this language also live in neighboring countries, but there are groups of speakers also in Australia, Canada, and the United States. A well-known American novel, which many students read…

Before … and After the BLC

To say that UC Berkeley and Berkeley Language Center in particular changed my life from the professional and personal points of view is to say nothing. I would better say my life can be now divided into two epochs – before BLC and after BLC. My English classes started here in Russia, and I have…

Which language is this?

This language ... ... is an officially recognized language by a regional government; ... is spoken by nearly 80 million speakers, placing it in the top 20 of the most spoken languages in the world; ... has a 1000-year-old literature and has been designated a classical language by its national government; ... has been referred…

BLC Lecturer Profile: Armando Di Carlo

“One must love one’s work like one loves a woman,” says Dr. Armando Di Carlo. After 20 years at UC Berkeley’s Department of Italian studies, spring semester 2011 will be Armando’s last; he’s retiring. Armando Di Carlo ended up in the US because of love – not for work but for a woman – as…

Library of Congress Issues New Exemptions

The mainstream media’s coverage of the announcement this week by the Librarian of Congress on new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (see the press release here), focused on the impact on jail breaking smart phones, but scant attention was paid to the exemption on circumvention of copying of DVDs. The latter ruling…

Update on LFLFC

The Library of Foreign Language Film Clips continues to grow in number of films, number of clips, and number of features. This spring we added our 41st language with the purchase of three films in Armenian. Currently our collection stands at 942 films, with Japanese, Russian, French, Spanish and Chinese accounting for 50% of the…

Clipping the Curriculum: Integrating Clips into the Foreign Language Classroom, June 14-17

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Clips from foreign language films present instructors with wonderful opportunities to model behaviors, attitudes, cultural artifacts and discourse strategies prevalent in the target culture. In this workshop participants will learn how to work with the BLC’s Library of Foreign Language Film Clips (LFLFC) to find, select, and annotate clips for use in the…

Slavic Linguistics Conference at UCB

On February 12th and 13th, 2010 Slavic linguists in Berkeley’s Slavic Department hosted the conference “Slavic languages: Time and contingency.” The conference brought together scholars of Slavic languages who use a variety of analytic techniques both in investigating the early spread of Slavic: archaeology, genetics, and computer modeling of differences; and in investigating how languages…

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