Mobile device convergence is accelerating like crazy, with a new breed of smartphones packing enough power to run an impressive range of software. And some of these mobile applications are getting ...

Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

Microsoft’s Skype introduced launched its real-time translation feature out of beta about half a year ago and today it is adding Arabic — and more specifically, Modern Standard Arabic — as its eighth ...

Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Arabic and to the culture of Arabic-speaking regions. This course meets three (3) hours per week in the classroom and requires at least one ...

Students in this course will develop their skills in speaking, hearing, reading, and writing Modern Standard Arabic, the form of the Arabic language shared by all Arab countries. The course covers ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - Besides Spanish, what would you guess is the most commonly spoken foreign language in Michigan? If you said French, German or Mandarin Chinese then you're wrong -- it's Arabic.

MASON, Ohio — There was no warning. “To be forthright, we didn’t really realize we had this bubbling up,” said Mason City Schools Superintendent Gail Kist-Kline. She was sitting in her office on the ...

Imagine an amazing radio-device of the future — one that can reach across space-time and capture every word that every human being has ever spoken. Twist the dials just right and you can tune in to ...

MAPS OF LANGUAGES are often deceptively simple: language X is spoken here, language Y there. But people have a habit of moving around, and brightly coloured maps are not good at showing complicated ...

AMONG THEIR many reverberations, the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 had a linguistic side-effect. Between 2002 and 2009 the number of university students in America learning Arabic shot up ...

For the past two years, I’ve taught English writing to students from Saudi Arabia with a gifted students scholarship program at the University of California at Berkeley Extension. One day during my ...