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Dustin Cowell, who teaches Arabic at Wisconsin-Madison and is chair of the Department of African Languages and Literature,says foreign-language immersion programs are effective because the language becomes a part of the students when they use it to express their feelings or to talk about ordinary, everyday activities.

College campuses add language immersion programs 2011

To encourage repeat customers, Mr. Kapell started brainstorming new ideas, such as packs with oversize words for kids, foreign-language versions and ones with themes such as geeks, Christmas and bike lovers.

After the One-Hit Wonder Jeff May 2011

But the worst part of the Beowulf deal was the fact that I was forced to include all foreign-language translation rights in the package they got for their advance money.

In Which the Author Discusses the "M" Word greygirlbeast 2009

Distributors of the film "The Flowers of War," China's most expensive movie made and its Academy Award entry for best foreign-language film, announced prior to its December release that it would increase ticket prices by five yuan, requiring a minimum price of 40 yuan, and maintain the right to 45% of its profits, limiting the profits of cinemas, according to the state-owned newspaper China Daily.

China May Cap Prices of Movie Tickets Laurie Burkitt 2012

Holy rollers also believe that watching foreign-language films, especially those from Europe, will turn one into a sex criminal.

Think Progress » Duke’s Jim Rogers leaves Chamber of Commerce board after climate fight. 2010

If it functions or purports to function as a viable linguistic operation, it appears somewhere in this juxtaposition-happy assemblage: stage directions, mailing addresses, quotations, footnotes, cross-outs, untranslated foreign-language bons mots -- you get the picture.

Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

There's nothing academic about it, "gringo" is used all over the Spanish speaking world to mean a foreign-language speaker.

I saw a Gringo begging today 2009

“The contract, and the Persona management technology itself, supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language Web sites to enable CENTCOM to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the U.S.,” Speaks told SpyTalk.

Spy bloggers not ‘friending’ U.S. targets, Centcom says 2011

If it functions or purports to function as a viable linguistic operation, it appears somewhere in this juxtaposition-happy assemblage: stage directions, mailing addresses, quotations, footnotes, cross-outs, untranslated foreign-language bons mots -- you get the picture.

Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

I'd like the original artists' foreign-language versions of songs best known sung in English.

Readers recommend: foreign-language versions 2011