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Importance of Chinese language emphasized at int'l language teaching conference

STORY: Importance of Chinese language emphasized at int'l language teaching conference DATELINE: March 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: Mexico City CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 6th International Conference of Chinese Language Teaching 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): CARMEN DEL CONTIJOCH, Director of the National School of Languages, Linguistics and Translation at the National Autonomous University of Mexico 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): ROBERTO LAFONTAINE, Executive director, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Center for International Cooperation and Language Teaching 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Spanish): ZHANG RUN, Chinese Ambassador to Mexico 5. various of the 6th International Conference of Chinese Language Teaching STORYLINE: At the just-concluded 6th International Conference of Chinese Language Teaching held in Mexico, experts said the Chinese language has become more and more popular among language learners and helped them strengthen their professional profiles in an increasingly comp

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Mongolia awards traditional script writers to promote language culture

STORY: Mongolia awards traditional script writers to promote language culture DATELINE: Jan. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: Ulan Bator CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ceremony STORYLINE: Mongolia held a ceremony on Friday to reward the winners of a national alphabet writing contest, a move to introduce and promote the country's traditional language. The annual contest this year saw around 50 first-class traditional Mongolian script writers among over 1,100 participants across the Asian country. The traditional Mongolian script, which is written vertically, was the most widespread until the introduction of the Cyrillic script in the 1940s. In 2020, the Mongolian government announced plans to use the traditional script alongside the Cyrillic script in official documents and legal papers from 2025. Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, culture and linguistics experts, domestic and foreign experts in the traditional Mongolian script also attended the award ceremony. Xinhua

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Dictionary on U.S., European brand names

MATSUE, Japan - Masayoshi Yamada, an English linguistics researcher, holds an English-Japanese dictionary he published on brand names of U.S. and European products, in the city of Matsue, western Japan, on Nov. 2, 2011.

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Pyongyang after island attack

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Yong Hwang (L), a professor of linguistics at Kim Il Sung University, watches a recap of a parade of the North Korean People's Army in October on TV at his home in Pyongyang on Nov. 28, 2010. Kim, seated next to his granddaughter So Yon, criticized the United States for using an artillery exchange between the two Koreas as an excuse to send the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington to the Yellow Sea.

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Work on dictionaries for Asian-Pacific sign languages

HANOI, Vietnam - A group of hearing-impaired sign language experts from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong are working on dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages in a project funded by the Nippon Foundation under the direction of James Woodward, a linguistics expert based in Vietnam and Hong Kong. In this photo, taken in Phnom Penh on Feb. 22, a group of Vietnamese and Cambodian hearing-impaired sign language experts hold copies of their partly completed sign language dictionaries.

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Emperor, empress attend New Year's lecture

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko (both at center left) listen to a lecture by Nobuaki Kumagai, professor emeritus in electronic communication at Osaka University, in an annual New Year's lecture at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan 10. Other lecturers were Tatsuo Nishida, professor emeritus in linguistics at Kyoto University and Kumao Toyoshima, head of Sumitomo Hospital and an expert on oncology and virology.(Pool photo)

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Spanish archaeologists find ancient writing on 2,100-year-old bronze hand

STORY: Spanish archaeologists find ancient writing on 2,100-year-old bronze hand DATELINE: Nov. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:54 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Vascon settlement on Mount Irulegi, near the Valley of Aranguren, close to Pamplona, the capital of Spain's northern Navarre region 2. various of researchers excavating the settlement with pictures of the 2,100-year-old bronze "Hand of Irulegi" 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): JAVIER VELAZA, Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Barcelona 4. various of researchers excavating and the hand with the Basque text 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): JOAQUIN GORROCHATEGUI, Professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country 6. various of pictures of the "Hand of Irulegi" 7. various of the Vascon settlement on Mount Irulegi STORYLINE: Archaeologists in Spain discovered a bronze hand believed to be 2,100 years old on which one of the oldest known languages, the Basque language, was inscribed. The bronze hand, k

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JORDAN-AMMAN-WORLD BOOK DAY-REFUGEE STUDENTS

(220423) -- AMMAN, April 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ashraf Abu Sbait (L), a specialist in linguistics and the Arabic language who works as a teacher from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), talks with students at a UNRWA school's library in Amman, Jordan, on April 21, 2022. (Xinhua/Ji Ze) TO GO WITH Feature: Value of reading recognized despite dislocation, conflict

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Work on dictionaries for Asian-Pacific sign languages

HANOI, Vietnam - A group of hearing-impaired sign language experts from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong are working on dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages in a project funded by the Nippon Foundation under the direction of James Woodward, a linguistics expert based in Vietnam and Hong Kong. In this photo, taken in Phnom Penh on Feb. 22, a group of Vietnamese and Cambodian hearing-impaired sign language experts hold copies of their partly completed sign language dictionaries. (Kyodo)

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Philippine university holds charity run for Japan

MANILA, Philippines - University of the Philippines alumni Cammille Cruz (L), 29, and Roelia Alvarez (R), 27, participate in a charity run at the school's campus in Quezon City on July 23, 2011, for the benefit of the victims of the March 11 calamities in Japan and the ensuing nuclear crisis. The two were exchange students to Japan in 2002 as Linguistics students of UP. (Kyodo)

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Dictionary on U.S., European brand names

MATSUE, Japan - Masayoshi Yamada, an English linguistics researcher, holds an English-Japanese dictionary he published on brand names of U.S. and European products, in the city of Matsue, western Japan, on Nov. 2, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Pyongyang after island attack

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Yong Hwang (L), a professor of linguistics at Kim Il Sung University, watches a recap of a parade of the North Korean People's Army in October on TV at his home in Pyongyang on Nov. 28, 2010. Kim, seated next to his granddaughter So Yon, criticized the United States for using an artillery exchange between the two Koreas as an excuse to send the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington to the Yellow Sea. (Kyodo)