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• December 18th, 2011

  Merry Christmas from Which Word Translations

  Merry Christmas from Which Word Translations!

  
  

• December 18th, 2011

  On British Irreverence

  I have recently re-watched the British animated film “Father Christmas”, which is based on two graphic novels by Raymond Briggs. As on the first viewing of the film, I was amazed at the subversive interpretation of this classic children’s character.

  
  

• November 30th, 2011

  Simple Online Diff Tool

  Diff Checker is a good and simple online tool for finding differences between two text documents.

  
  

• November 19th, 2011

  Adventures with Bilingualism

  Kasper is now 3,5 years old and his linguistic explorations continue to amaze and entertain us in both languages. The English-language surroundings are becoming more prominent, as Kasper is becoming increasingly more interactive, conversational and interested in socialising with his peers.

  
  

• November 19th, 2011

  The linguistic genius of babies

  At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.