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Language

  • Adventures in Translation, Part 2,148

    Words fail ... literally.

    • James Fallows
    • Feb 13, 2012
  • Cultural Advice: Go See 'Chinglish'

    A play worth seeing, whenever and wherever you can

    • James Fallows
    • Jan 26, 2012
  • Mandarin Smackdown! Stewart vs. Huntsman vs. Xiao Li

    Two Americans named Jon, and one Chinese named Xiao Li, grapple with the world's most widely spoken language

    • James Fallows
    • Jan 14, 2012
  • 3 Reasons to Watch Our 'Salton Sea' Video, and More on That Weirdo Old Accent

    More on the mystery of the Transatlantic accent

    • James Fallows
    • Aug 31, 2011
  • Catching Up With Language Change

    When did Americans stop talking this way? Many theories.

    • James Fallows
    • Aug 12, 2011
  • Language Mystery: When Did Americans Stop Sounding This Way?

    A film clip brings back the lost language of pre-World War II America

    • James Fallows
    • Aug 8, 2011
  • Viewers' Guide: Language and Living Buddha

    Everyone needs to be careful, including the holiest among us

    • James Fallows
    • Jul 7, 2011
  • A Thought for the Day

    Watch out for the mouse medicine

    • James Fallows
    • Jun 15, 2011
  • An 'Economic Burden' Google Can No Longer Bear?

    Can any technology challenge be too big for Google? Apparently so. In December, the search giant will turn off its Translate API.

    • James Fallows
    • Jun 12, 2011
  • Today's Chinese Semiotics Lesson

    A bit of philosophy, or physics, from deep underground in Beijing

    • James Fallows
    • May 31, 2011
  • Two Craft Points on Obama's Parliament Speech

    'The queen, the pope, and Nelson Mandela walk into a bar....'

    • James Fallows
    • May 25, 2011
  • Even More on Second Languages

    Can't understand what I'm saying? Maybe it would help if you'd grown up outside the Anglosphere.

    • James Fallows
    • May 25, 2011
  • Your Beijing Street Signs, Explained

    Watch out for zippers, fishbones, and Douglas fir trees

    • James Fallows
    • May 24, 2011
  • On Speaking Second Languages (or: Why All Esperantists Understand One Another)

    Want to understand Chinese more easily? Find some non-Chinese person who is speaking it.

    • James Fallows
    • May 18, 2011
  • Hāfó Welcomes You! 哈佛歡迎你!

    The Chinese century has well and truly begun. At least in Cambridge.

    • James Fallows
    • May 16, 2011
  • State Dinner, and the 'Language Screwup' That Was, or Wasn't

    More on what Hu heard, and when he heard it

    • James Fallows
    • Jan 20, 2011
  • Language Screwup at the Hu-Obama Presser? Maybe Not

    What did Hu hear, and when did Hu hear it?

    • James Fallows
    • Jan 19, 2011
  • A Very Good Question: What Does 'Civility' Mean? Exactly?

    A specific question to make the discussion more productive.

    • James Fallows
    • Jan 10, 2011
  • News from Inhabitant Public Radio®

    "I'm contemptible to listen about your loss"

    • James Fallows
    • Jan 5, 2011
  • China Doesn't Have Our TSA Problems, But....

    Chinese airports face the rice-flour challenge

    • James Fallows
    • Dec 27, 2010
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