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Multilingual Books August Newsletter
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Thanks for reading the Multilingual Books newsletter, your source for foreign language news, information, and product information and specials from Multilingual Books. In this issue:
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Happy Signs DVD from Language Tree
Happy Signs is a new video series designed to teach parents and their babies simplified American Sign Language. Infants and toddlers can utilize sign language to express their needs even when their speech isn't fully developed. This signing method has been shown to ease frustrations and tantrums as well as boost cognitive development. With Happy Signs, parents are better able to understand what their little ones want and need throughout the day and night. Help your baby or toddler communicate more effectively with Happy Signs: Day. Happy Signs allows your little one to clearly express his or her needs, thus easing the frustration that babies often feel when they are unable to convey their thoughts through speech. Teaches useful signs for day time: brushing teeth, eating, putting on clothes, etc., and features entertaining 3D animation together with adorable young actors, filled with fun music developed by a Hollywood composer, and including a quick reference guide of the signs. Happy Signs: Night smoothes the transition from day to night by improving communication between you and your baby or toddler. Happy Signs allows your little one to clearly express his or her needs, thus easing the frustration that babies often feel when they are unable to convey their thoughts through speech. Teaches useful signs for night time: bathing, reading, going to sleep, etc., and features entertaining 3D animation together with adorable young actors, and fun music developed by a Hollywood composer, and a quick reference guide of the signs. Based on American Sign Language, Happy Signs fun and easy for the whole family to learn. |
New Technology Makes Language Learning Easier
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Feature Article
From slam poetry to plain language for health care
SEATTLE—The doctor's mouth opens, and "medicalese" pours forth: words like "pyrosis" and "myocardial infarction." The patient's eyes glaze over. If only the doctor said "heartburn" or "heart attack," the patient could learn what caused the chest pain.
This failure to communicate is all too familiar. In 2005, Jessica Ridpath noticed it happening when health care researchers asked people to consider taking part in studies.
"Informed consent means people understand what they're agreeing to," said Ridpath. "But most consent forms are too complex for the reading abilities of the people they're supposed to inform." A slam poet and language lover, Ridpath is the research communications coordinator at Group Health Center for Health Studies. She just published her first article in the July/August American Journal of Health Promotion.
Ridpath worried that unreadable consent forms were hindering informed decision making—and raising risks for participants and research institutions alike. So four years ago she created the Project to Review and Improve Study Materials, or PRISM. Her article describes how PRISM evolved. First it was a short-term internal training initiative to boost consent form readability. Since then, PRISM has expanded into an enduring suite of hands-on resources. It includes a customizable training workshop and an editing service. Its centerpiece is a Toolkit that illustrates strategies for communicating clearly in written materials for study participants, such as informed consent documents, study invitations, letters, and information sheets...
See the article in full at: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/ghcc-fsp070809.php
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Trivia Contest
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This month's quiz The first entry with all correct answers will win a Foreign service Digital course in French, Italian or Spanish. Send answers to multilingualbooks@gmail.com. No purchase necessary to enter. How do you say 'global warming' in French, Korean, Turkish, and Icelandic? How do you say 'cold' in Italian, German, Japanese, and Maori? How do you say 'ice' in Persian, Irish Gaelic, Portuguese, and Swedish? How do you say 'bliss' in Latin, Thai, Tibetan, and Greek? Have a favorite item of language trivia? Send it to contest@multilingualbooks.com. You will receive credit for your contribution if your item is used. |  |
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Featured Website
Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed-Tech) State Program
Ed-Tech Program Funds Made Available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Earlier this week the U.S. Department of Education issued guidance for applying for stimulus funds for the Enhancing Education though Technology (Ed-Tech) program.The primary goal of this program is to improve student achievement through the use of technology in elementary and secondary schools. Additional goals include helping all students become technologically literate by the end of the eighth grade and, through the integration of technology with both teacher training and curriculum development, establishing research-based instructional methods that can be widely implemented. A document released by the U.S. Department of Education provides guidelines and examples of many allowable uses for the funds.
The official website is here: Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed-Tech) State Program
A Word document with the full information about the project can be found here: guidance-arra.doc
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August Newsletter Specials
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Free shipping on Language Lizard Bilingual Books for Children These bilingual books feature children's classics from The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves in over 10 languages!. (Note: The shipping fee will be refunded to your credit card after processing). |
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Platiquemos Spanish Course - Save $50 on any four-level purchase on CD and Digital versions! The world's best Spanish course just got better! "The course that works" has been completely revised and improved by Don Casteel, the author of Platiquemos and a former Foreign Service officer who is well trained in the FSI method and fluent in several languages. This edition has improved audio, with both male and female voices, more than 200 illustrations, and trivia. The content is more contemporary than ever, while retaining the language and grammar that have made this the most widely sold course on the language market. Just remember to include the promo code PLAT-AUGUST in the promo field when ordering! |
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Get Free Shipping on Foreign Films for August! Get free shipping on any movies from our Foreign Films directory for the month of August! (Note: The shipping fee will be refunded to your credit card after processing). |
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