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Did you know? Linguists estimate that at least 2,200 languages still need a translation of the Bible. In October 1982, Wycliffe launched the Bibleless Peoples Prayer Project (BPPP) which encourages people to pray for Bibleless language groups. Today there are 11,000 active BPPP prayer partners.  Join the team today! Visit http://www.wycliffe.org/bppp or email or call [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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