Category Archives: Language Media

Shanghai Daily newspaper combats Chinglish

Posted on October 15, 2006 by Kevin

The Shanghai Daily newspaper (上海日报 Shang4hai3 Ri4bao4) of Shanghai, China, has put up a Web site (202.101.38.80/art/2006/10/16/294376/New_Website_offers_English_fun.htm) [EDIT (5/29/10): dead link] to help university students improve their English, especially in preparation for the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010 (Expo 2010 … Continue reading →

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Follow-up: Oral language-play for speech impaired

Posted on October 6, 2006 by Kevin

Back in August I posted (Oral language-play for speech impaired) about the System to Augment Non-speakers Dialogue Using Puns (STANDUP) project that helps speech-impaired children develop language analysis through puns. The Discovery Channel has a little more information. The program: … Continue reading →

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American slang / jargon book: ‘Talk the Talk’

Posted on September 15, 2006 by Kevin

This book looks like fun and is hot off the press (if books take over a week to cool down): Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures By Luc Reid ISBN 1-58297-423-3 Publisher Writers Digest Books (wdeditors.com/wordpress/fall-2006-titles/talk-the-talk/) [EDIT … Continue reading →

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Free book on Chinese, other Asian languages

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Kevin

Mark Swofford of Pinyin News has announced that the 1991 Schriftfestschrift: Essays in Honor of John DeFrancis on His Eightieth Birthday (Sino-Platonic Papers) is now available as a free PDF in honor of the 95th birthday of Professor DeFrancis. The … Continue reading →

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Japanese language through manga

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Kevin

One of Japan’s English newspapers, the Mainichi* Daily News, has manga (cartoons) in the original Japanese with English translation via mouse-over. They call it Manglish (mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/entertainment/etc/manglish/index.html) [EDIT (5/15/10): dead link]. That’s “manga English,” not the mixture of Malay and English … Continue reading →

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