"Foreign Language" News Items

D Magazine
Foreign dance film in 3-D: Oscar's oddest contender
Washington Examiner
It's a 3-D dance film in a foreign language -- directed by Wim Wenders. He's best known on these shores for art-house favorites "Wings of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club," but most small cinemas don't have the equipment to show 3-D films.
Levy's High Five, February 3 - 9OregonLive.com (blog)
Win Passes To See PINA In St. LouisWe Are Movie Geeks

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Oscar Smackdown: THR's Stephen Galloway Squares Off with AMPAS Committee Chair ...
Hollywood Reporter
In particular, the Best Foreign Language Film category continues to polarize industry experts as many of the year's most well-received films went unrecognized when nominations were handed out on January 24. Today, two of THR's Oscar-season experts ...

Elementary Spanish Program Could Be Target Of Budget Cuts
Leesburg Today
by Danielle Nadler More than a decade ago, the Loudoun County School Board set a goal to implement a foreign language program in its elementary schools. School system staff set out to research the pros and cons of such an idea, the various ways to ...

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Movie Listings for Feb. 3-9
New York Times
Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign-language films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases: nytimes.com/movies. 'The Adventures of Tintin' (PG, 1:47) The Belgian boy detective (Jamie Bell) and his dog, ...

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Official Foreign Language Could Hold Key to Further Development
UB Post
The only way we can multiply is through knowledge and the easiest tool for obtaining it is foreign language. Small countries surrounded by superpowers like Mongolia understood this a long time ago and they have been following a neutralist policy by ...

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Denis Villeneuve revisits Middle East for new film
CTV.ca
Denis Villeneuve, a Canadian director of the Oscar-nominated foreign language film 'Incendies,' speaks during the Foreign Language Award Directors reception in Beverly Hills, Calif., Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP / Jae C. Hong) MONTREAL — Quebec director ...

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KSUB program offers Friday foreign language lessons
Seattle University Spectator
Any non-native speaker of English is obliged to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) to gain entry into the university. If they score at a certain level, they're admitted normally. However, if they score within a certain range, ...

Fairfax County parents hope foreign-language expansion starts a movement
Washington Post
Brookfield Elementary School parent Sandy Knox has seen the pendulum swing on a program she holds dear: foreign language in elementary schools. In 2007, Fairfax County public schools planned to expand the program to more schools.

District to expand languages program
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
By TERRY SMITH The Blaine County School District announced last week that it is developing a three-year plan to extend foreign language studies to more students. However, officials noted that increased classroom time in foreign language studies will ...

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Issaquah Press
¿Hablas español? Language program for kids takes flight in Issaquah
Issaquah Press
Foreign Language for Youth, or FLY as it is also known, is an after-school series that equips elementary school students with foundational language skills in Arabic, French, Spanish, Chinese and Mandarin. Featured in 15 of the state's school districts, ...

Winnetka's language efforts at odds with art offerings
Winnetka Talk
But spending more time on foreign language means less time on another subject. In the plan the district proposed last month, sixth-graders who want to take band or orchestra, which meet daily during the school day, would miss the rotating art, ...

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Language Line Services Launches Foreign Language Center of Excellence (COE) to ...
Sacramento Bee
31, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- In response to federal government foreign language mandates for limited English proficient (LEP) populations and the need stressed by President Obama to identify solutions that leverage new technology to improve public ...

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No language barriers for East Kingston kids
Seacoastonline.com
The school started using Rosetta Stone in its foreign language classes and is enabling students to learn languages not usually offered in most colleges, never mind, elementary schools. With Rosetta Stone, the students can choose from 25 different ...

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Foreign language can be your passport
Times of India
"Learning a foreign language widens horizons, opening up avenues for higher education abroad. Almost all my friends are learning foreign languages. It's becoming more of a requirement than just an additional quality," explained Sonal, a Class 9 student ...

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Foreign Language Study
New York Times
One idea that should not be embraced, however, is his notion that the time spent learning a foreign language is not “universally worthwhile.” I suppose a case could be made that learning the obscure language of an isolated population is indeed not ...

Campbell Co. school officials discuss adding Chinese as foreign language ...
The Republic
As Campbell County school officials continue to discuss adding Chinese as a foreign language option for students, the trio had different opinions about whether they'd be interested in enrolling in a Mandarin class. "I'd be so into that," Coorough said.

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Jweekly.com
Iranian, Belgian, Canadian, Israeli and Polish films competing for foreign ...
Washington Post
LONDON — Their settings span the globe, but this year's foreign-language Academy Award nominees are united in giving local stories a universal resonance. The five finalists range from World War II Poland to modern-day Israel and Quebec, from an ...
Israeli drama nominated for foreign-language OscarJweekly.com
Israeli film industry is a surprising powerhouseCBS News
Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar on his Oscar-nominated 'Footnote'Los Angeles Times
Jerusalem Post
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Haaretz
Iranian film in running for foreign language Oscar
The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Their settings span the globe, but this year's foreign-language Academy Award nominees are united in giving local stories a universal resonance. The five finalists range from World War II Poland to modern-day Israel and Quebec, ...
Iranian, Belgian, Canadian, Israeli and Polish films competing for foreign ...Washington Post
Oscars: 'A Separation,' 'Footnote' top foreign language film nomineesLos Angeles Times

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We Are Movie Geeks
Sony Pictures Releases Synopses For TOTAL RECALL, SKYFALL, PREMIUM RUSH, HERE ...
We Are Movie Geeks
Sony Pictures celebrated Sunday evening at the Golden Globes Awards with it's Best Foreign Language Film win for Director Asghar Farhadi's A SEPARATION. Below are the new synopses of Sony's most anticipated films in 2012. Total Recall is an action ...

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Six honored for foreign language skills
Chippewa Herald
The Chippewa Falls Senior High School foreign language department is pleased to announce its Students of the month for November. Freshman Breanna Nowak, the daughter of Paul and Dee Ann Nowak, was chosen as Student of the Month by her Spanish 1 teacher ...