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Las malas lenguas/ aprender español a pie de calle
El Mundo Español a pie de calle Han convertido la enseñanza del español en una excusa para hacer turismo por Madrid.
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French textbooks: Class struggle
Hostility to free markets starts at school Jul 6th 2013 | PARIS |From the print edition BOTH relief and tears will greet the results of France’s school-leaving baccalauréat exam on July 5th. With breathtaking efficiency, the entire country’s exam papers are corrected and marked within just two weeks. Founded in 1808 by Napoleon, the bac is an entry ticket to university as […]
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Teenage hyperpolyglot: Shrug like a Frenchman and frown like a Russian
TIMOTHY DONER looks like an ordinary American teenager. Medium-height and slight, he arrives in a grey T-shirt and jeans. As he is being miked for his interview, our producer asks him a http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/07/teenage-hyperpolyglot-0 question to get him talking, so that she can check his voice levels:
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The Economist (29-6-2013): Teaching and technology: E-ducation
A long-overdue technological revolution is at last under way Jun 29th 2013 |From the print edition “IT IS possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture,” observed Thomas Edison in 1913, predicting that books would soon be obsolete in the classroom. In fact the motion picture has had little effect on education.