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  1. @nclrc - it was great at ACTFL to link a face to the NCLRC tweep. Hope we can help each other!
  2. En route home from ACFTL in San Diego - trying Delta's on-board wifi while it's free. ACTFL was a great success for us. Looking fwd to 2010
  3. at ACTFL in San Diego ... great crowd so far! come by booth 1426 (corrected from earlier tweet) and see us
  4. We're in San Diego this weekend at the ACTFL convention, in exhibitor booth 1427. Would love to see you there! http://bit.ly/mZiHO
  5. NLSC mentioned in Asian Tribune article on the difficulty of learning the Vietnamese language. http://tr.im/FdF4
  6. Cultural exhibit at the Folger in DC, thru Jan 9, 2010: "Imagining China: the View from Europe, 1550-1700". http://bit.ly/1LnNX2
  7. Demand grows for niche translators (by Tina Susman, in The Los Angeles Times 11/16/09)http://bit.ly/1Ps1UW
  8. In Awe of Translations and Translators: http://twurl.cc/1ug5 RT @NOVALanguages
  9. US Veterans Day makes one writer compare the loss of languages to the loss of WWII veterans. http://twurl.cc/1tub RT @NOVALanguages
  10. Counterpoint: One linguist questions whether allowing languages to die is a bad thing. http://bit.ly/bpieT
  11. @nclrc Will do!
  12. RT @Languagebandit The word "ilunga" from the Tshiluba language is widely regarded as the most untranslatable word: http://tiny.cc/Alfiy
  13. Blogged in May (http://tr.im/lNMC ) about effort to standardize lang proficiency tests. Group mtg today, close to releasing draft stds
  14. Interesting blog on learning languages by Orlando Kelm, a UT-Austin language prof: http://orkelm.wordpress.com. Thx to @polyglotwit.
  15. This Saturday (Nov. 7th) is the South Asian Lit Festival in DC: http://bit.ly/1AvjbG (RT @skrishna @hangingnoodles @NOVALanguages)
  16. We will be recruiting at the Idealist.org non-profit career fair on Tuesday, Nov 10 at George Washington Univ in DC http://bit.ly/2upgCG
  17. A gathering of the world’s top minds in endangered language preservation Nov 12-14: http://bit.ly/2VTTvC RT @NOVALanguages
  18. CNET Asia: Internet domain names to appear in non-Latin scripts . Final approval last Friday for Nov 16 start. http://bit.ly/4pudnK
  19. Linguists all a-muckwash and fratching over lost words. Times Online: http://bit.ly/13Bqth RT @polyglotwit
  20. Language hotspots - five areas in the world with high number of languages at risk of extinction. http://bit.ly/mHamf