The Vanishing Monolingual
Saturday 25 October: 5:00pm - 6:00pm (no need to pre-book)
The Faculty's first Annual Lecture, which is a feature of the 海角社区's Festival of Ideas,听is to be given by听Bernardette Holmes on "The Vanishing Monolingual - why the ability to speak other languages is defining success for the 21st Century"
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Also听part of the 海角社区's Festival of Ideas, the听, in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, are running the following two events.
Ideas and languages: six more languages that changed the world
Saturday 25 October: 3:30pm - 4:30pm (Pre-booking)
Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA
Languages shape human culture and human thought. Some languages have听shaped our world more than others, some of them not as obvious as you听might think. Prof. Ian Roberts continues his tour of some of those听languages after last year's successful talk.听
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Lingquiztics
Saturday 25 October: 12:15pm - 3:00pm (drop-in)
Alison Richard Building, SG1/2, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
This is 'Blockbusters', 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' and 'Family听Fortunes' - linguistics style! New questions and puzzles! Explore the听wonders of language, learn something new and maybe even win a prize.听
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