| What it takes to play notre Celine nationale
Christine Ghawi's background couldn't be farther removed from Celine Dion's, but playing Dion is coming oh-so-naturally to her, the 23-year-old Montreal actress said. Ghawi was cast as the Quebecoise songbird from Charlemagne, just outside Montreal, in the made-for-CBC bio-pic Celine, currently shooting in English in Toronto and Hamilton. Ghawi is anything but a pure laine small-town Quebecer. That and the fact that she has only a couple of minor theatre and indie film roles to her credit meant that she was not an obvious choice to play Celine. .
Jol taunts Wenger after Spurs earn draw
Martin Jol showed little compassion for Arsene Wenger after Tottenham Hotspur rescued a 2-2 draw in Saturday's north London derby against Arsenal. To get the latest Premiership scores, simply SMS the letters SPREM to 34911 and the day's final scores will be sent to your cellphone. This is a SuperSMS service and costs just R2 per SMS. Jol's side avoided defeat against their bitter rivals thanks to a Jermaine Jenas equaliser in the last minute of stoppage time, but Arsenal should have had the points wrapped up long before then. The Gunners, who trailed to Robbie Keane's strike before going ahead through Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor, squandered a series of chances and hit the woodwork three times. The result put the seal on a traumatic week for Wenger, who saw his close friend David Dein quit as vice-chairman following a row with his fellow directors over a potential takeover by American Stan Kroenke.
Childcare centers strive to educate children at a younger age
With more parents both working full time, families have to make a decision on where to bring their children for childcare. For those who don't have family or close friends in the area, many times they look to childcare centers.
More childcare centers are adding play-based curriculum to prepare the children for school.
"There is a big trend to push down curriculum right now. So things normally learned in first grade, they want kindergartners to know," said Central Michigan University early childhood educator Helen Hagens. "It is somewhat worrisome because the average age that children read is 7. By expecting 5-year-olds to read, a large number may feel disappointed if they can't."
Becky Wiinikainen, owner of Stepping Stones Early Learning Center in McBain, incorporates many academic activities into the children's day including learning new languages, the alphabet, how to count and sign language.
There's a world of languages Japanese too can learn
It seems to be conventional wisdom -- if "wisdom" is the word -- that Japanese people do not excel at mastering foreign languages. Some surveys of the results of international English-proficiency tests have them occupying the murky depths, below even the likes of North Koreans. Does the "Dear Leader," by chance, know something that the "Beautiful Leader" doesn't? It used to be said of Americans that they were "unable" to speak foreign languages -- except, of course, for those born into one. Despite the bizarre concept that any nationality could render a people mentally or temperamentally incapable of learning a foreign language, this was a "fact" routinely touted both in the United States and abroad. I thought so too at one time. Two years of foreign-language study was compulsory in my U.S.
Hawkeye staff learn Spanish
That, in short, explains why school is back in session for staff and administration at Hawkeye Community College. The inaugural graduating class of the college's first conversational Spanish course now sprinkles the campus with Spanish. The courses, put on by El Centro Latinoamericano, the Latino resource center, are designed to facilitate communication with Spanish-speaking students and their parents.When Ferkic, Hawkeye's public safety coordinator, fled Bosnia 10 years ago, he didn't speak a word of English. So he was thrilled at the opportunity to take Spanish classes at the college. After all, he had already taken some courses at the University of Northern Iowa to better communicate with students. .
Giunti Labs Expands Further in Spain and South America
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - St Albans, Herts, United Kingdom, 04/16/2007 - Having recently opened a North American office in Boston, MA, Giunti Labs, Europe's leading vendor of e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions, has moved into the Spanish and South American markets. .
Singers: Soham Chakraborty, KK, James, Suhail Kaul, Pritam ...
It seems that after Salaam E- Ishq, multiple stories are in vogue, since we have now seen the releases of Honeymoon Private Limited and Delhi Heights. Now we have the new movie Life in a Metro to look forward to. The one thing that these multi-storied starrers have in common so far, is that the music has been fairly interesting. What with Shankar Ehsaan & Loy, Vishal Shekhar, and Rabbi Shergill providing some interesting (if not blockbuster level) music for Bollywood fans, musically at least, we have been treated to some of the most innovation we have seen in awhile. It seems that apna desi music directors are trying to move away from the tried and true techno dance formula (with a smattering of rap thrown in ala Himmesh Reshammiya) to expand the genre with rock, folk, country and jazz. Life in a Metro is the latest release by talented director Anurag Basu, the director of Gangster.
Ads in Calif city urge immigrants to learn English
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Desperate for English-speaking workers, business leaders in a heavily immigrant California city have launched a $4.5 million campaign to persuade residents to learn the language. The campaign in Santa Ana, where more than three-quarters of residents are Hispanic and less than 15 percent speak English at home, offers free language classes at a community college and take-home study kits. "Employers have been coming to us saying: 'Look, we don't have enough people to hire that speak English," said Dale Ward, executive vice president of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce. "Two-thirds of our workforce does not qualify for an entry-level job in growth industries because they do not speak English or do not speak English well enough." Santa Ana, a working-class city 40 miles (64 km) south of Los Angeles, has long been a magnet for immigrants from Mexico and Latin America.
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