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Media, Communications, and IT experts, as well as linguists, translators, and ethnomusicologists, will meet near Frankfurt, Germany 21 September to 01 October, 2010, for the Eurasia Media and Distribution Consultation. For information contact

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Know anyone who is preparing to learn another language? TRAIN International still has spaces open at the “Acquire” training in Joplin, MO from March 15-26, 2010. Eric Derry will be the lead trainer at this two-week intensive training which empowers cross-cultural workers with the best known current strategies and tools in language acquisition. At Acquire, [...]

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Find out what biblical material is produced in the language you love. Here’s a site that indexes over 16,000 International Bibles on the Internet and also includes many different media (printed, audio, DVD etc.). With a multi-lingual interface, it will help immigrant populations to find Bibles in their own languages. Check it out…
http://www.worldbibles.org

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Did you know that there are around 300 languages spoken in Mexico and Global Recordings Network has recorded the gospel in many of them? Check out their web site at:
http://www.globalrecordings.net
and type Mexico under “Find by Country” Better yet….Join them for one week to one month during February, giving CD’s and playing recordings of the Gospel [...]

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OK… I’m joking in the title, but this iPhone app does look interesting. Here’s an app featured at lifehacker.com that snaps a picture, then does a translation. WinMobile won’t be far behind, I bet. My winMobile phone already scans business cards, imports the picture into a OCR program, scans and lets you make any corrections [...]

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Hats off to our I.T. guy, Greg, for asking me if I had tried
http://www.livemocha.com/
It’s a new one to me. Any experience with it? Did it work? Looks like  an online version of a Starbucks, with a language-learning specialization. If you have experience there, please drop us a comment below the online version of this item.

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Roca Blanca Spanish Language School teaches Spanish within the context of the largest concentration of unreached people groups in the Western Hemisphere! In Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, there are 16 major language groups with 155 dialects, many within a half day journey from its location on the Pacific coast. The intensive Spanish curriculum is [...]

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That’s the upshot of Tom’s project at:
http://www.arabbible.com/
Fascinating concept. It contains, for example, complete grammatical explanations of every single word in the Arabic New Testament. Just click on a word, and you’ll find a wealth of information, containing not only a dictionary entry for that word, but also its contextual meaning and full grammatical help as [...]

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The Institute of Strategic Languages & Cultures, also known as Russian Language Ministries, is offering 3-week intensive Russian language courses in Kiev this summer held at the Ukrainian Education Center, near the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Two different courses will be offered: Correct Grammar in Spoken Russian and Ministry-related Terminology for Discipleship situations. The program is [...]

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The Institute of Strategic Languages and Cultures, also known as Russian Language Ministries, is offering 2 or 3 week intensive Russian language courses during summer 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine. Two different courses will be offered, including Correct Grammar in Spoken Russian, a course devoted to giving the student the skills to speak with grammatical accuracy, [...]

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I’ve got a great friend in North Africa who wrote, this past week, to say, “As missionaries my wife and I are not only trying to learn the three languages that surround us daily, we’re hoping our kids will, too. We recently found this website:
http://www.multilingualchildren.org/and thought it might help others. At the same time we [...]

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3) LOOKING TO BRUSH UP ON YOUR RUSSIAN? — The Institute of Strategic Languages and Cultures, also known as Russian Language Ministries, is offering 2 or 3 week intensive Russian language courses during summer 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine. Two different courses will be offered, including Correct Grammar in Spoken Russian, a course devoted to giving [...]

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Here’s a guy wondering where is the best school or program for learning Modern Standard Arabic. I’ve heard of several schools — Kelsey, GAP, and others. Did you or someone you know participate in such a program? If so, would you be willing to offer an assessment? What might be the strengths/weaknesses of each program, [...]

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We know every tongue, tribe, and nation will be in heaven! Frequently this will be preceeded by ‘foreigners’ bringing the Good News. Most language software will be irrelevant for those foreigners, though, because it only targets big markets (French, Spanish, Chinese, etc.), ignoring 99% of the world’s 6000+ dialects. If you have computer programming talent [...]

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This course is for anyone who wants to communicate clearly with people who do not speak English. Since it is about a team approach, interpreters will also find this course useful. All types of organizations will benefit, including businesses, professional services, non-profits, government entities and educational institutions. Highline Public Schools, near Burien, Washington provided support [...]

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Are you interested in Bible Translation or learning a more difficult language for your work as a missionary? Try the 9 weeks linguistics course offered by SIL at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND. For 2008 it runs from June 9 – Aug 8. The first year courses typically include: Phonetics, Second [...]

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Here’s an excellent free evangelistic spoken English language course for students coming to an English instruction Bible college or Seminary. Over 300,000 students have used the course worldwide. A Bible college, Seminary, or individual may download the entire course from
http://www.FreeEnglishNow.com/help14.html
You may send prospective students a CD of the course for their personal English study. [...]

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This print ready tract is designed for tri-fold to print at your church or home computer. The tract is designed to make witnessing to Hindus simple. The Vedic Bridge is a contextual Gospel tract ready for you to download and print in PDF format. And they are free to download and distribute. The new Hindi [...]

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Are you learning Modern Standard Arabic? Would you like a free tool to help you practice vocabulary from the widely popular Alif Baa series? Go ahead and check out The Power Tool at this address below. It is fairly comprehensive and customizable to your needs, and best of all, it’s free. *Warning* if you contact [...]

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In this issue…

IS THERE AN ONLINE RESOURCE TO DISCERN ONE’S CALLING?
WHO WILL TRY THIS CELL PHONE OPTION (FOR INT’L TRAVEL)?
MISSIONARY TRAINING CAMP
LEARN ENGLISH IN THE USA
2008 POST-CHRISTENDOM SPIRITUALITIES CONFERENCE
INTRODUCING PRAYER TOOLBAR
GO TO THE NATIONS…AS AN ENGLISH TEACHER
WHEN YOU SUBMIT [...]

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In this issue…

THE DIGITAL TALKING BIBLE AND TESOL PROGRAMS
NEED A BREAKTHROUGH IN YOUR MINISTRY?
GET FREE LANGUAGE LEARNING RESOURCES
NEW BOOK HELPS REACH THE TERMINALLY ILL
CATCH ALL THE UPDATES AT MOMENTUM MAGAZINE
CLOSE-UP ON THE HERERO PEOPLE
BIBLE READING SYSTEM IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
CALLED [...]

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In this issue…

LET PROJECT MEDSEND EMPOWER YOUR MEDICAL DEGREE
THE GLORY STORY
GUESS WHO STOPPED BY THE DISCUSSION ABOUT LEARNING LANGUAGE
RAISE YOUR FULL SUPPORT AND ACTUALLY ENJOY IT!
GO TO THE NATIONS…AS AN ENGLISH TEACHER
FREE DOWNLOADABLE MULTI-LINGUAL TRACTS
LEARN CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH
MEETING THE NEEDS [...]

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