Asian Languages

Monday, 11 December 2023

Latest News for: Asian languages

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Purdue trustees appoint new chancellor of Purdue University Northwest

Journal & Courier 11 Dec 2023

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Kenneth C. “Chris” Holford as the new chancellor of Purdue University Northwest. This announcement, on Friday, comes almost a year after people called for the resignation of Chancellor Thomas L. Keon after an impromptu joke mocking Asian languages at a commencement ceremony.

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US college campuses have embraced the Palestinian cause like never before. The story began six ...

Hastings Tribune 11 Dec 2023

... because it is the only “language” the colonizer speaks ... “A coalition developed in the United States and in college campuses that made these links together,” recalled Bazian, now a 59-year-old lecturer in Middle Eastern languages and cultures and Asian American studies at Berkeley.

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Review: 'The Messenger' makes powerful impact at Dramaworks

Palm Beach Daily News 10 Dec 2023

And in 2020, Fang portrays an Asian teenager subjected to bigotry ... With her purposeful body language, the cadence of her speech, and her unflinching expressions, Lowe embodies Georgia Gabor ... Antisemitism is more prevalent than just a few years ago, hate crimes against Asians rose ...

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'The Boy and the Heron' is No. 1 at the box office, a first for ...

Elko Daily Free Press 10 Dec 2023

Since then, Japanese directors have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film four times, far exceeding any other Asian country ... Stacker collected IMDb data on all Japanese-language films made by Japanese filmmakers and ranked the top 50 by IMDb user rating, with ties broken by votes.

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“Disastrous” funding cuts to domestic violence, child sexual abuse services will hit South County hard

East Bay Times 09 Dec 2023

Elsewhere in San Jose, Asian Americans for Community Involvement, which serves victims of domestic violence with its shelter and 24-hour hotline, may lose the resources to properly staff the hotline ... Further north, Asian Americans for Community Involvement in San Jose provides services to immigrants in over 40 languages.

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Letters to the editor: The right of nations to exist; Americans need foreign languages; the ...

Daily Camera 08 Dec 2023

Americans need foreign languages. As famously quoted by Charlemagne, “To have a second language is to have a second soul.” The art of bilingualism has fallen short for our American K-12 students ... American students are learning foreign languages at significantly lower rates compared to that of European or Asian students.

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Alyssa Berry: R.F. Kuang's 'Babel' moves at rapid pace

The Joplin Globe 08 Dec 2023

By using the language gaps in translated words, scholars are able to produce magical effects with engraved silver bars ... Robin has the potential to be very valuable because there are currently only two Asian-language translators at Babel — one of whom is Professor Lovell.

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$1M state grant funds literacy, technical training for immigrants in West Michigan

Michigan Live 08 Dec 2023

... who read below a 9th grade level and/or who don’t speak English as their first language. This summer, the center launched the English Language for Small Business program in partnership with the Asian American Association and Asian American and Pacific Islander Chamber of Commerce.

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SATO Adds Asian Language Support to Complementary Live Chat (SATO Holdings Corporation)

Public Technologies 07 Dec 2023

SATO Corporation, a global pioneer in auto identification and labeling solutions today added support for Asian languages as part of its complementary live chat launched earlier this year ... SATO plans to support other languages and extend operating hours in the near future.

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In which Bay Area cities do most people speak a language other than English at home?

East Bay Times 07 Dec 2023

Nowhere stood out more than the South Bay city of Milpitas, where 45% of residents 5 and older speak an Asian or Pacific Island language, such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean or Tagalog, and 9% speak Spanish ... Spanish is the second most common with 16%, and 18% of residents speak a mix of Asian or Pacific Island languages.

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Top 10 Chinese buzzwords of 2023 unveiled

China Daily 07 Dec 2023

... "Hangzhou Asian Games," "Nuclear-contaminated water," "Palestinian-Israeli conflict," "Large Language Models," "Shenzhou XVII," and "Village Super League .".

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Test scores for NJ students rose in 2023 but still lag behind pre-pandemic levels

Burlington County Times 07 Dec 2023

In English language arts, 51.3% met or exceeded expectations in English, compared with 57.6% in 2019 ... for whites and 73.7% for Asians. English language arts proficiency for Black students was 33.7%, compared with 37.1% for Hispanic students, 61% for whites and 80.6% for Asians.

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Foreign students are pouring back into Australia

Economist 07 Dec 2023

THE first international student, from China, enrolled at the University of Sydney a century ago. Now its sandstone buildings hum with foreign languages. almost half the university’s students are from overseas. “For Asian kids, we value the rankings a lot,” says one of its Chinese students, who asks not to be named ... ■ .

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The New Statesman’s 20 best books of 2023

New Statesman 07 Dec 2023

Non-fiction. A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel ... John Murray Press, 400pp, £25. Buy the book ... Buy the book ... Quartet ... Thoughtful clear-sightedness abounds in Bright Fear, which continues the exploration of queerness and post-colonial language in Chan’s debut book, now in the context of the anti-Asian racism that accompanied the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Yotta Data Services to collaborate with Nvidia for GPU computing infrastructure

The Economic Times 06 Dec 2023

With this offering, Yotta customers will be able to train large language models and other AI workloads serving the growing needs of Indian, Asian, and broader global markets ... .