Currently there are six Language Houses, focusing on German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin.

The mathematician Tobias Dantzig, in his book Number: The Language of Science, remarked on how a counting-device had brought about the destruction of both Houses of Parliament, and he quotes from a speech given by the English novelist and advocate of social reform, Charles Dickens, in 1855 ( Charles Dickens, Speech to the Administrative Reform Association, June 27, 1855 ).

International and Language Houses

" Either the English or the French Language may be used by any Person in the Debates of the Houses of the Parliament of Canada and of the Houses of the Legislature of Quebec ; and both those Languages shall be used in the respective Records and Journals of those Houses ; and either of those Languages may be used by any Person or in any Pleading or Process in or issuing from any Court of Canada established under this Act, and in or from all or any of the Courts of Quebec.

* Diane Ravitch, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, Knopf, 2003, hardcover, 255 page.

* Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students ( OELA )

* Chinese Text Sampler: Readings in Chinese Literature, History, and Popular Culture – Annotated Collection of Digitized Chinese Texts for Students of Chinese Language and Culture

* A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language for the Use of Early Students, 1868.

Students also participate in such programs as the Self-Instructional Language Program ( SILP ) which offers courses in Hindi, Irish / Gaelic, Korean, Portuguese, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, and Yiddish.

Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English ( SDAIE ) for Language Minority Students

Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Government, Sociology, Literature, Mathematics and Economics open along with the Language Centre ( later the Department of Language and Linguistics ) and the Computing Centre ( later the Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering ) with Denis Mesure elected as the first President of the Students ' Council.

* The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn ( 2003 ) ISBN 0-375-41482-7

* Diane Ravitch, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn.

Students have at their disposal also a Language Centre, where they can attend to courses of foreign languages, a Sports Centre ( Cus Pisa ), who also arrange for many Sports Intramural Leagues and allows to make the sports practice in almost all the disciplines available in Italy, and three University Refectories ( Mense universitarie ).

* A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language, Arranged with Reference to the Classical Languages of Europe, for the Use of English Students, Oxford: Clarendon, 1857, enlarged and improved Fourth Edition 1887

# Chinese Language Education for Foreign Students

Students follow a classic liberal arts curriculum, including four years each of English, Foreign Language ( either Spanish, French, German, Latin or Mandarin Chinese, which was introduced in 2011 ), Mathematics, Religion, Science ( Earth Science or Oceanography, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics ), and Social Studies, as well as one year each of Art, Music Appreciation, and Health.

In addition, the university sponsors a base for National Foundational Scientific Research and Teaching-oriented Talents Cultivation approved by the Ministry, a national education base of Cultural Qualities of College Students, a national educational base for Chinese Language Teaching and a national base for Teacher Training.

* Chinese Language ( For Foreign Students )

Students may currently choose from the following subject offering: English Language and Literature, English Literature, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, French, Spanish, German, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Latin, Classical Civilisation, History, Geography, Economics, Government and Politics, Computing, Drama, Music, Music Technology, Art & Design, Religious Studies and Physical Education.

Students who are non-native speakers are still expected to take English as their Language A, so most have a near-native degree of fluency.

Students are required to complete courses in English, History, Mathematics, Science, The Arts, Physical Education, Health / Ethics, and a Foreign Language ( Spanish, French, Latin, Mandarin ).

Students on the Academic I track take three years of a foreign language and a College Writing course in their fourth year, while Academic II students take English Composition for two years and senior year they take American Sign Language, taught by a graduate of Gallaudet University.

It is worth noting that Title VII was replaced in the most recent reauthorization of the ESEA, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and is now Title III “ Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students .”

* Students ' Right to Their Own Language -- with bibliography ( April 1974, reaffirmed November 2003, annotated bibliography added August 2006 )

Students in Blocks 4 and 5 ( Years 10 and 11 ) combine five or seven GCSEs-English Language, Mathematics and a Modern Language GCSE, as well as IGCSE Double Award Science, are compulsory for all students in these years-with two or three BACs.

In addition, there are no traces of Akkadian or Mesopotamian Aramaic in any Germanic Language.

Language is acquired within the first few years of life, and all humans under normal circumstances are able to acquire language proficiently.

This model is further solidified with the OpenGL Shading Language, with the user writing small programs that live in video memory, and are requested from the main program through the graphics driver.

Language varieties are often called dialects rather than languages:

Language expressions are fed into a DBMS through proper interfaces.

Language expressions are fed into a DBMS through proper interfaces.

One of Hofstadter's columns in Scientific American concerned the damaging effects of sexist language, and two chapters of his book Metamagical Themas are devoted to that topic, one of which is a biting analogy-based satire entitled " A Person Paper on Purity in Language ", in which the reader's presumed revulsion at racism and racist language is used as a lever to motivate an analogous revulsion at sexism and sexist language.

Language features include structured programming, reflection ( the ability to modify the program structure during program execution ), concatenative programming ( functions are composed with juxtaposition ) and extensibility ( the programmer can create new commands ).

Two-handed manual alphabets are used by a number of deaf communities, including England, Scotland, and Wales and countries of the former Yugoslavia and Turkish Sign Language.

Some of the letters are represented by iconic shapes, such as b, c, d, k, and, in British Sign Language and the BANZSL group of languages, the vowels a, e, i, o, and u, are represented by pointing to the fingertips.

In American Sign Language ( ASL ), more lexical items are fingerspelled in casual conversation than in formal or narrative signing.

Notably, both Guatemala and Belize are participating in the confidence building measures, including the Guatemala-Belize Language Exchange Project.

Prominent in this category are Chinese and American Sign Language, which both differentiate many aspects but rely exclusively on optional time-indicating terms to pinpoint an action with respect to time.

For these cases, the Academy of the Hebrew Language suggests two transliteration sets, a generic one, reflecting modern phonology, and a strict one, reflecting the orthographic distinctions, which are still in use, and the historical phonology.

These flowcharts often are based on the Unified Modeling Language.

Of all his more general works the boldest and most far-reaching was his Geschichte der deutschen Sprache ( History of the German Language ), in which the linguistic elements are emphasized.

In common use are such terms as Lusophone, meaning Portuguese-speaking, and Lusitanic, referring to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries — once Portugal's colonies and presently independent countries still sharing some common heritage.

* They are both members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.

other spoken dialects of Chavacano Language are the following: Cotabateñ in Cotabato City and Castellano Abakay in Davao region.

Some natural languages have become naturally " standardized " by children's natural tendency to correct for illogical grammar structures in their parents ' language, which can be seen in the development of pidgin languages into creole languages ( as explained by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct ), but this is not the case in many languages, including constructed languages such as Esperanto, where strict rules are in place as an attempt to consciously remove such irregularities.

The subfield of NLP devoted to learning approaches is known as Natural Language Learning ( NLL ) and its conference CoNLL and peak body SIGNLL are sponsored by ACL, recognizing also their links with Computational Linguistics and Language Acquisition.

Numerous French language services are available under the French Language Services Act of 1990 in designated areas where sizable francophone populations exist.

The third generation consists of credible attempts at this single industry-standard language, with Unified Modeling Language standardizing the method was recognized, and the languages developed into notations that are suitable for a wide range of development methods.