Monthly Archives: December 2007

TV and languages

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    Sitting comfortably on my sofa and thanks to a satellite dish, I can watch TV channels in the following languages:

  • English (6 channels)
  • German (more than 30 channels!!)
  • French (4 or 5 channels)
  • Arabic (1 channel)
  • Italian (2 or 3 channels, can’t remember exactly)
  • Dutch (3 channels)
  • Catalan (1 channel)
  • Spanish (1 or two channels)
  • Gallician (1 channel)
  • Basque (1 channel)
  • Welsh (1 channel)

There probably are some more that I don’t remember. If I want to expand this offer, I only have to use my internet connection, I can watch channels from all over the world.

However, if I lived in Alacant, I wouldn’t be able to watch TV3 Mutis

Foreign language… Chinese!

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Chinese calligraphy

I read this piece of news in avui.cat and I thought it could be interesting. It seems that Panama is going to change the foreign language they teach at schools. The new language is Chinese and the reason is the strong economic relationship between the two countries. Authorities say that in 10 years Panama must have found the necessary infrastructure for the teaching of Chinese, which basically means training new teachers.

If you want to read the piece of news in English, go to BBC news by clicking here

Foreign language… Chinese!

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Chinese calligraphy

I read this piece of news in avui.cat and I thought it could be interesting. It seems that Panama is going to change the foreign language they teach at schools. The new language is Chinese and the reason is the strong economic relationship between the two countries. Authorities say that in 10 years Panama must have found the necessary infrastructure for the teaching of Chinese, which basically means training new teachers.

If you want to read the piece of news in English, go to BBC news by clicking here

Free Catalan-English dictionary!

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The ‘Dacco‘ project (Diccionari Anglès-Català de Codi Obert) started the creation of a dictionary some years ago. The philosophy of this project is that everyone can participate and contribute with words and translations, similar to the way ‘wikipedia’ works.

It is not perfect, but it is getting better and better with time. If you want to look up a word, simply use the search function (‘ctrl + f’ or ‘ctrl + b’) and type the word you want.

The file is compressed to only 5.1 mb zip, but it may take a while to begin the download.

Congratulations!!

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I would like to congratulate all the students of 3rd ESO grade who passed the irregular test exam. Some of you could only afford to make 2 mistakes out of 20 verbs, and you did it!! So, again, my congratulations.