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Equality for (Almost) All (Unless They’re Old)
The movie “The Intern,” with Robert de Niro and Anne Hathaway, has a lot to teach about what it means to be a leader and treat colleagues, superiors, and employees humanely, especially for women in leadership. The idea of the film is to show that it is never too late to learn the “basics”: just… Read More
20 years/anos of/de partnership/parceria: Cannes Lions/Estadão/BIRD GEI
Estadão newspaper is the official representative of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in Brazil, and BIRD GEI | Consultoria e Gestão de Idiomas has had the honor of being the official translator for Estadão on all issues related to the Festival since 2001. The Cannes Lions is the largest gathering of professionals in marketing,… Read More
Origin of Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday is now more than a decade old and was created as an online counterpoint to the brick-and-mortar-heavy Black Friday. In addition to giving online retailers a piece of the Thanksgiving weekend pie, it gives holiday deal-hunters a more convenient shopping option. It takes place on Nov. 29 in 2021. Whether Cyber Monday still… Read More
Happy Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on… Read More
Origin of Black Friday
Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November), often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened very early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many… Read More
A genialidade lingüística dos bebês – The linguistic genius of babies
No TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl apresentou resultados surpreendentes sobre como os bebês aprendem uma língua sobre outra -, ouvindo os seres humanos ao seu redor e “fazendo estatísticas” sobre os sons que eles precisam saber. Experimentos de laboratório (e tomografias cerebrais) mostram como os bebês de 6 meses de idade, usam um raciocínio sofisticado para entender… Read More
Os alunos de línguas estrangeiras devem ser expostos a gírias na sala de aula e aqui está o motivo…
Resumo: Os especialistas dizem que as gírias no idioma ingles e os dialetos regionais não devem ser banidos das salas de aula, mas quando você está começando a se familiarizar com um segundo idioma, o quão útil é aprender um jargão diferente do padrão? Muito, diz Sascha Stollhans, do Departamento de Línguas e Culturas da… Read More
Foreign language learners should be exposed to slang in the classroom and here’s why…
Summary: Experts say English slang and regional dialect should not be banned from classrooms but when you’re getting to grips with a second language how helpful is it to learn non-standard lingo? Very, says Sascha Stollhans, of the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University, who argues that standardised language norms are artificial and… Read More
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