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	English is the global language that unites us all. Or is it? In reality local slang rules. Take 'Singlish' for a start. (Times Online, 12th March 2005)
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	Cantonese and Mandarin are the languages children should be learning at school if we are to capitalise on the future business potential of China, say experts. (Â鶹Éç News, 11th March 2005)
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	The government is to spend another £115m on providing foreign language teaching in England's schools. (Â鶹Éç News, 11th March 2005)
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	Disney is to use the Welsh language in a live show for the first time when Winnie the Pooh takes to the stage at the Wales Millennium Centre. (Â鶹Éç News, 10th March 2005)
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	One of Wales' oldest Welsh-medium schools is urging parents to encourage their children to speak more of the language in the corridors. (Â鶹Éç News, 8th March 2005)
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	Deaf people who use sign language 'talk' with regional dialects, experts revealed yesterday. (Daily Record, 5th March 2005)
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	The north-east of England has retained more of its verbal identity than most of the rest of the country, according to an online archive. (Â鶹Éç News, 2nd March 2005)
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	Nearly half of company directors and senior managers believe that a posh accent is a hindrance rather than a help when it comes to succeeding in business, a survey has revealed. (Daily Mail, 29th March 2005)
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	A database chronicling changes in England's accents and dialects over the last 50 years has been expanded. (Â鶹Éç News, 1st March 2005)
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	In Russian school number 22, in the Latvian capital Riga, Natalia Skestere is quietly breaking the law. Under legislation which came into force last September, 60% of lessons in the final three school years must be taught not in the students' native Russian but in Latvian, the state language. (Â鶹Éç News, 29th March 2005)
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	New legislation has come into force in western parts of the Irish Republic to promote the use of the Irish language. (Â鶹Éç News, 28th March 2005)
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	Members of the Welsh Language Society climbed a tower of Caernarfon Castle in a protest calling for a housing act to protect Welsh-speaking communities. (Â鶹Éç News, 28th March 2005)
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	Cleveland Police has become the first among the north-east of England forces to set up a talking website. (Â鶹Éç News, 24th March 2005)
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	Leading Scottish writers and politicians have called for an Aberdeen literary festival to give as much prominence to the Scots language - especially the Doric dialect - as it currently gives to Gaelic. (Sunday Herald, 20th March 2005)
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	Hundreds of recordings of people from Northumberland to Cornwall have been put online by the British Library Sound Archive in a new website designed to preserve the country's diverse regional accents. (The Journal, 18th March 2005)
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	A conference is being held in Devon to raise awareness about sign language. (Â鶹Éç News, 18th March 2005)
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	A primary school where children have lessons in French and English is being set up in south-west London. (Â鶹Éç News, 17th March 2005)
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	Shortly after Rafael Benítez, a Spaniard, took over as coach of the Liverpool soccer team last year, he gushed about this northern city's spirit and congeniality, before acknowledging sheepishly that he had encountered one complication: "I can't understand your accent," he told reporters here. "It sounds like Russian." (International Herald Tribune, 15th March 2005)
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	A Â鶹Éç journalist is urging helpful linguists to come forward to help solve a mystery - why the Hindi accent has so much in common with Welsh. (Â鶹Éç News, 14th March 2005)
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	A group of mothers have started their own sign language group for hearing babies to try to communicate with them before they learn to speak. (Â鶹Éç News, 1st March 2005)
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