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		<title>Our fascinating alphabet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of things fascinate me about the way we communicate with the written word. I&#8217;ve recently stumbled across a few alphabet-related facts that might interest you too. Browsing in a local bookshop, I was delighted to find the Diccionario del origen de las palabras (&#8216;Dictionary of the origin of words&#8217;)*. I&#8217;ve been looking for an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sad decline of languages in UK schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mean the decline of taught, modern foreign languages, not sweary bad language (I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s probably still learnt and applied with enthusiasm). This article in the Guardian, Who still wants to learn languages?, raises a few key points from recent studies, as well as interesting observations. In summary: Funding for languages has been cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language learning: a great leveller</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 09:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning a new language is one of those great activities that reduces the differences between people. It doesn&#8217;t matter what job you do, where you&#8217;re from or how much you earn; once you&#8217;re thrown together to grasp a new language, everyone&#8217;s in the same boat. This occurred to me while reading one of a series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning languages online</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if I needed another distraction, this week I discovered Busuu.com. It calls itself a &#8216;language learning community&#8217; and is basically another social network with a twist: you create a profile for yourself and add details of the languages you&#8217;re learning. Busuu.com offers courses in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian at the moment. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: &#8216;Biting the wax tadpole&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.concisecontent.co.uk/2009/08/25/book-biting-the-wax-tadpole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided some time ago that I&#8217;d share some of the interesting writing- and language-related books that I read. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m very good at starting lots of books at the same time, but not always great at finishing them&#8230; One I did complete a while ago (and, yes, I should have written about it while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn a language, help your writing, improve your prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 18:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian recently reported that &#8220;there is increasing demand around the world for [website] translations into English&#8230;particularly inside businesses&#8221;. This is an interesting and exciting prospect for me, as a web copywriter living in Spain, learning Spanish and hoping to gain clients here. Increase credibility and improve search results As well as needing help translating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple, clear copy (in any language)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first rules of web copywriting is to use plain English, to give every reader the best chance of understanding your content. Your website is available to the entire world and will have visitors who have a first language different to your own. Don&#8217;t forget, however, that native speakers also have differing reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Thoughtful, investigative pieces don&#8217;t work on the web&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.concisecontent.co.uk/2008/12/06/thoughtful-investigative-pieces-dont-work-on-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article on the Guardian&#8217;s website today. Aida Edemariam looks at the issue of search on the internet and how this influences online writing in contrast to offline articles. This, of course, links in to how content for the web must be structured differently in general. Unfortunately, she thinks it makes &#8216;depressing reading&#8217;, interpreting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British English or American English?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jakob Nielsen recently covered the issue of which English language variant to use in one of his recent Alertbox emails. This topic usually interests me or bugs me in equal measure (but for different reasons). I&#8217;ve written for companies that want to use British English and for those that prefer American English. As Nielsen points [...]]]></description>
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