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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/270BC66E-FCCC-43B4-9FFD-6299CEE1E320/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/">rmowery</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.un.org/Depts/DGACM/faq_languages.htm" title="http://www.un.org/Depts/DGACM/faq_languages.htm">www.un.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/rmowery/512/30B37013-A5D7-4654-AA5C-2EB34BA90D0A.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign='top' colspan='7'><!-- #BeginEditable "Text Body" --> <h3><font color="#996600" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">What are the official languages of the United Nations?</font> </h3> <p class="text_main" align="justify">An international organization must have effective ways to overcome language barriers to avoid becoming a Tower of Babel. Since almost every country in the world is represented at the United Nations, it is not an exaggeration to say that the United Nation is a microcosm of the world. The Organization uses six official languages in its intergovernmental meetings and documents, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish; the Secretariat uses two working languages, English and French. </p> <p class="text_main" align="justify">Statements made in an official language at a formal meeting are interpreted simultaneously into the other official languages of the body concerned by United Nations interpreters. If a delegation wishes to speak in a language that is not an official language, it must supply an interpreter to interpret the statement or translate it into one of the official languages. It is then rendered into the other languages by a relay system. </p> <p class="text_main" align="justify">Documents are produced in the six official languages and are issued simultaneously when all the language versions are available.</p> <p class="text_main"><a href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self" class="text_main">Back.</a> </p> <!-- #EndEditable --></TD></tr></table></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/russian/" rel="tag">russian</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/chinese/" rel="tag">chinese</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/english/" rel="tag">english</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/spanish/" rel="tag">spanish</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/french/" rel="tag">french</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/arabic/" rel="tag">arabic</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/un+official+languages/" rel="tag">un official languages</a></div>http://www.un.org/Depts/DGACM/faq_languages.htmThu, 21 Sep 2006 20:04:12 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6D0B0D64-1D63-44D4-9895-F7815547B9C1/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/">rmowery</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2148342/" title="http://www.slate.com/id/2148342/">www.slate.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class='article_top'><div class="kicker"><span class="department_name">family: </span>Snapshots of life at home.</div><h1>The Infant Grammarian<span class="subhead">The genius of baby talk.</span></h1><span class="byline">By Emily Bazelon</span><br><span class="dateline">Posted&nbsp;Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006, at 1:58 AM ET </span></DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><span style="display: block; width: 90px; float: left; height: 201px;"> </span><span class="topimage"><a><img src="http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/2135002/2135284/2146901/060825_Fam_InfiniteGift.gif" alt="The Infinite Gift by Charles Yang" title="The Infinite Gift by Charles Yang" border="0" height="189" width="130"></a></span>My 3-year-old son, Simon, sees no point in the <em>to be</em> verb. "This my Superman costume," he says. "Where my Batman boot?" I've always assumed he's just making a small-child's mistake, and if I don't correct him, that's mostly because it's too much bother. According to a new book by the Yale linguist Charles Yang, however, Simon is mirroring the grammar of a different language. Hebrew doesn't bother with <em>is</em> or <em>are</em>. When kids leave out the subject in the sentence "Where going?" they're thinking like a speaker of Chinese, which drops topic words in some contexts. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Like almost everything in linguistics, Yang's idea stems from Noam Chomsky's theory that the human capacity for language is innate. Chomsky identified a "universal grammar," meaning a way language generally works, that humans are born with. Other linguists argue that the distinctions among languages can be described by a few dozen rules, or parameters, that involve binary choices: In English you state the subject; in Chinese you sometimes don't. And so, Yang argues in his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743237560/sr=8-1/qid=1156449145/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2302740-8446321?ie=UTF8" target="_blank"><em>The</em> <em>Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World</em></a>, that the mistakes Simon and his peers make aren't the processing difficulties of an immature brain. They're the trial and error children go through as they discard the structure of other languages in favor of their own. "Only the grammar actually used in the child's linguistic environment will not be contradicted, and only the fittest survives," Yang writes.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">linguistics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/grammer/" rel="tag">grammer</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/babytalk/" rel="tag">babytalk</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/infants/" rel="tag">infants</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/languages/" rel="tag">languages</a></div>http://www.slate.com/id/2148342/Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:11:00 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/01A4F7FE-4488-47CD-91E4-AE8FFFF00175/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/">rmowery</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-common-phrases-in-various-languages" title="http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-common-phrases-in-various-languages">www.answers.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>List of common phrases in various languages <span class="shw"></span> </H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><SPAN class='hw'>List of common phrases in various languages</SPAN></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class='tight_dataSourceTitle'> <a href="#copyright"> <img class="copyrightImage" src="http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/smalllogos/wikipedia.gif" height="35" width="40"> </a> <a href="http://www.answers.com/library/Wikipedia-cid-616565578"> <span> Wikipedia </span></a> </DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tourism" class="ilnk" >Tourists</a> to a foreign country often get along with a surprisingly short list of phrases, combined with pointing, miming, and writing down numbers on paper. This list is intended to serve as a comprehensive basic introduction to those languages. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>This is a list of <b>common phrases in various languages</b>, for a general overview of ten to fifteen basic phrases in all of the major world languages, and certain interesting minor ones. </P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/language/" rel="tag">language</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/languages/" rel="tag">languages</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/basic+phrases/" rel="tag">basic phrases</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/learning/" rel="tag">learning</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/educaiton/" rel="tag">educaiton</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/communications/" rel="tag">communications</a></div>http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-common-phrases-in-various-languagesSun, 16 Jul 2006 03:54:45 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C375FA81-0070-4B76-8E68-BB09645E1D6A/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/">rmowery</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> With clipmarks becoming international, thought this might be useful. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/" title="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/">www.elite.net</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT color='#009900'>Welcome to Jennifer's Language Page!</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B>At this site you can learn how to say several words and phrases in hundreds of different languages. <br><div>My goal is to include every language, so that people will be able to say at least a few words to anyone they meet, anywhere in the world. </div> <br> <img src="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/greenbar.jpg" alt="green bar again" height="4" width="339"></B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>My goal is to include every language, so that people will be able to say at least a few words to anyone they meet, anywhere in the world. </DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width='450' valign='top'> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/faq.htm"> <h3> Introduction and Frequently Asked Questions</h3></a> <br> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/hello.htm"><h3> Greetings ("hello") in more than 800 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/thankyou.htm"><h3> "Thank you" in more than 500 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/goodbye.htm"><h3> "Goodbye" in more than 450 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/hay.htm"><h3>"How are you?" in more than 425 languages</h3></a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/yourname.htm"><h3> "What is your name?" in more than 330 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/myname.htm"><h3> "My name is..." in more than 275 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/welcome.htm"><h3> "Welcome" in more than 325 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/gmorning.htm"></a><h3><a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/gmorning.htm"> "Good morning" in more than 250 languages</a></h3> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/gaftern.htm"></a><h3><a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/gaftern.htm"> "Good afternoon" in more than 160 languages</a> </h3> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/geven.htm"></a><h3><a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/geven.htm"> "Good evening" in more than 225 languages</a> </h3> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/gnight.htm"></a><h3><a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/gnight.htm"> "Good night" in more than 225 languages</a> </h3> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/please.htm"><h3> "Please" in more than 270 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/understa.htm"><h3> "I don't understand" in more than 255 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/english.htm"><h3> "Do you speak English?" in more than 215 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/yes.htm"><h3> "Yes" in more than 550 languages</h3> </a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/no.htm"><h3> "No" in more than 520 languages</h3> </a> <center> <img alt="green bar again" src="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/greenbar.jpg" height="4" width="339"></center><br> <br><center><h2><a name="resources">Links to other sites:</a></h2></center> <h4><a name="resources">Links to Dictionaries, Grammars and additional Internet Language Resources at other sites:</a></h4> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/language.htm#Europe">[European Languages]</a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/languag2.htm#North%20America">[North American Languages]</a><br> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/languag2.htm#Central%20America">[Central American Languages]</a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/languag2.htm#South%20America">[South American Languages]</a><br> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/languag2.htm#Africa">[African Languages]</a> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/languag3.htm#Asia">[Asian Languages]</a><br> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/languag3.htm#Australia">[Australian and Pacific Languages]</a><br> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/languag3.htm#Other">[Other languages resources on the Web]</a><br> <a href="http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/links.htm"><h4>Links to other lists of translations <br>(Merry Christmas, I love you, Happy Birthday etc.)</h4></a><br> </TD></tr></table></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/language/" rel="tag">language</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/free+lessons/" rel="tag">free lessons</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/learning/" rel="tag">learning</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/social/" rel="tag">social</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/education/" rel="tag">education</a></div>http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:06:36 GMT