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Youness Guarmouti moves throughout his classes at Amideast, the language school for foreign students in Rabat, with a gentle confidence that appears to win over his students immediately.

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The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...

Of all the rich and varied parts of the French language, it is perhaps swearing that poses the biggest translation problem. Here's a look at some famous examples of translation issues and how best to ...

Russell Gray Director of the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Tel.: +40 341 3550-259 Email: russell_gray@eva.mpg.de Annemarie Verkerk, ...

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Columnist Patrick Moeschen argues that we all should focus more on finding the right words to accurately describe living with ...