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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Useful links and resources for Unit 1 Section 1

Unit 1. What do young people face in society today?
Section 1. World languages: local and global?
- Где найти информацию о том, как распространялся английский язык в мире? Где взять интерактивные карты, показывающие, где используется английский язык? Какие самые популярные и наиболее распространенные в мире языки? Где взять видео с примерами различных акцентов английского языка? Какие заимствования из русского языка в английский и из английского в русский существуют? Какие заимствования пришли в английский из других языков?
Какой язык называется Globish English? Кто говорит на этом языке и где он используется?
Где найти список официальных языков разных стран? Какие языки международного общения существуют? Какие самые популярные и наиболее распространенные в мире языки? Какие диалекты есть в английском языке? Кто такой полиглот? Где найти истории о людях, которые владеют многими языками?Какие советы по изучению языков дают преподаватели и ученые-лингвисты?

http://en.wikipedia....ational_English - encyclopaedia entry about English as a global language
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglis...x_noflash.shtml - a story about how English kept spreading in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count...ficial_language - a list of countries where English is an official language
http://lazarus.elte..../gb/english.htm - an interactive map and detailed information about English-speaking countries
http://teacherslove....o.pt/16034.html - a worksheet with print-out flags of English-speaking countries
http://www.ling.gu.se/projekt/sprakfragela...-i-varlden.html — list of the top 10 languages that are the first languages for nearly half of the world's population, information about world's language families
http://learnalanguageortwo.blogspot.com/20...s-in-world.html — brief information on the most widespread languages in the world
http://listverse.com/2008/06/26/top-10-mos...s-in-the-world/ - top 10 most widely spoken languages in the world
http://sonletay.vox.com/library/post/world...-languages.html — a brief article about the world's most popular foreign languages
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=3UgpfSp2t6k – a short video tour of 21 accents of English from UK to Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, France, Australia, New Zealand and North America.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=2JIsnD-50Og – a video sample of Standard British (RP) accent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjfAzECuDSA...feature=related – a video sample of Standard American accent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijr9lU2J2Wk...feature=related – a video sample of Cockney accent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYLMmRCXbs...feature=related – a video sample of Australian accent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWVIObGHxzs...feature=related – a video sample of Indian accent
http://www.evaeaston.com/rel/rel1.html – an article about connections between the Russian and English vocabulary
http://www.lingref.c...5/paper1353.pdf – an article about Russian borrowings in English
http://www.askoxford...owings/?view=uk — brief information with examples from Oxford dictionaries on borrowings into English
http://www.ruf.rice..../loanwords.html - major periods of borrowing in the history of English
http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html - the list of words in the English language that have been borrowed (loaned) from other languages
http://als-alexander.org/globish.htm– what is the “globish” language?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globish - encyclopaedia entry about Globish English
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/21/arts/21i...ume22.html?_r=1 – an interesting article from New York Times on Globish English
http://en.wikipedia....icial_languages – a list of official languages of sovereign countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International...iliary_language - encyclopaedia entry about International auxiliary languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diale...nglish_language – list of dialects of the English language
http://webspace.ship...sofenglish.html – full information illustrated by examples on dialects of English
http://www.ling.gu.se/projekt/sprakfragela...-i-varlden.html — list of the top 10 languages that are the first languages for nearly half of the world's population, information about world's language families
http://learnalanguageortwo.blogspot.com/20...s-in-world.html — brief information on the most widespread languages in the world
http://listverse.com/2008/06/26/top-10-mos...s-in-the-world/ - top 10 most widely spoken languages in the world
http://sonletay.vox.com/library/post/world...-languages.html — a brief article about the world's most popular foreign languages
http://en.wikipedia....alism#Polyglots - encyclopaedia entry about what multilingualism is, who polyglots are, the most famous polyglots
http://www.iqscope.c...t-polyglot.html - brief information on the world's greatest polyglot linguist
http://www.omniglot....guage/index.htm — a collection of advice, suggestions, tips and techniques for learning languages
http://www.moving-overseas-guide.com/learn...n-language.html — different ways and general tips to help learn foreign languages
http://www.staff.cit...a939/advice.php — how can you improve your linguistic skills — advice for learning languages

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