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  • According to an article on him in Lingua Franca some years ago he can't do even the most basic day-to-day tasks, as his wife does all of them for him and he has little idea how such things happen in the concrete.

    Discourse.net: Let's Ban Footnotes Too! 2009

  • Lingua is a good platform because it encourages people not to keep their troubles to themselves, it helps them realize that in some ways our lives are amalgamated with the rest of the world, even though we speak different languages.

    Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Carolina Chandra Rumuat 2009

  • A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman’s personal quest to speak fluent Italian.

    Characters 2009

  • A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman’s personal quest to speak fluent Italian.

    French Destinations 2010

  • That’s great … GV-Lingua is becoming truly a unique place!

    Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Carolina Chandra Rumuat 2009

  • Depending on the native languages of people speaking them, the pidgins collectively referred to as Lingua Franca also integrated elements from Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, and other native languages of the Mediterranean.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Depending on the native languages of people speaking them, the pidgins collectively referred to as Lingua Franca also integrated elements from Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, and other native languages of the Mediterranean.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In the Comedy called Lingua, there is a circumstance which Chetwood mentions, too curious, to be omitted here.

    The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

  • Mr. Winstanley, and after him Chetwood, has attributed a play to our author called Lingua, or the Contention of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority, a Comedy, acted at Cambridge, 1606; but Mr. Langbaine is of opinion, that neither that, Love's Loadstone,

    The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

  • In the Comedy called Lingua, there is a circumstance which Chetwood mentions, too curious, to be omitted here.

    The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Theophilus Cibber 1730

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