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		<title>Seeing the world through new tongues</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being monolingual can be limiting, so why not learn another language and get a new perspective on the world?]]></description>
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		<title>Language: the food of understanding</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning Arabic is tough but it can open you up to a whole new world of cultural experiences and opportunities, not to mention build understanding.]]></description>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t need no age segregation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Khaled Diab Segregating school students by gender, or grouping them according to age simply doesn&#8217;t make sense. April 2009 The fears of generations of parents appear to be unfounded. A new study suggests that it is girls who have a bad influence on boys rather than vice versa – at least when it comes to language. The research found that boys perform worse in English when there are a lot of girls in the class. This female factor can knock as much as 10% off a boy&#8217;s grades in the subject. That boys get all tongue-tied around girls may seem self-evident. They blab and blag with the lads but, once in the company of the opposite sex, their speech rapidly devolves. In fact, for some, the presence of a girl they fancy triggers the kind of recessionary pressure that causes their vocabulary to shrink faster than the economy. The researcher behind the study, Steven Proud of Bristol University, attributed the discrepancy in performance to the realisation among boys that the girls are better than them at English. This probably acts as a demotivator, especially when coupled with the need to appear cool and nonchalant in class. It could also [...]]]></description>
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