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Emerging technologies: Integrating technology into study abroad, Godwin-Jones (2016)

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Emerging technologies: Integrating technology into study abroad, Godwin-Jones (2016)

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Autonomous learning through task-based instruction in fully online language courses, Lee (2016)

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Autonomous learning through task-based instruction in fully online language courses, Lee (2016)

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Positioning identity in computer-mediated discourse among ESOL learners - Fong, Lin, & Engle (2016)

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Positioning identity in computer-mediated discourse among ESOL learners - Fong, Lin, & Engle (2016)

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Mobile-assisted narrative writing practice for young English language learners from a Funds of Knowledge approach - Chen, Carger, & Smith (2017)

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Mobile-assisted narrative writing practice for young English language learners from a Funds of Knowledge approach - Chen, Carger, & Smith (2017)

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Summary 2 - Chen, Carger, & Smith (2017)

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Children's interaction and lexical acquisition in text-based online chat - Coyle (2017)

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Children's interaction and lexical acquisition in text-based online chat - Coyle (2017)

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Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a whole bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.

1. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.

2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)
You know when you're really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can't stop eating it? The Georgians feel your pain. This word means, "I accidentally ate the whole thing."

3. Tartle (Scots)
The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can't quite remember.

4. Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego)
This word captures that special look shared between two people, when both are wishing that the other would do something that they both want, but neither want to do.

5. Backpfeifengesicht (German)
A face badly in need of a fist.

6. Iktsuarpok (Inuit)
You know that feeling of anticipation when you're waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they're there yet? This is the word for it.

7. Pelinti (Buli, Ghana)
Your friend bites into a piece of piping hot pizza, then opens his mouth and sort of tilts his head around while making an "aaaarrrahh" noise. The Ghanaians have a word for that. More specifically, it means "to move hot food around in your mouth."

8. Greng-jai (Thai)
That feeling you get when you don't want someone to do something for you because it would be a pain for them.

9. Mencolek (Indonesian)
You know that old trick where you tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them? The Indonesians have a word for it.

10. Faamiti (Samoan)
To make a squeaking sound by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or child.

11. Gigil (Filipino)
The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is irresistibly cute.

12. Yuputka (Ulwa)
A word made for walking in the woods at night, it's the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin.

13. Zhaghzhagh (Persian)
The chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage.

14. Vybafnout (Czech)
A word tailor-made for annoying older brothers-it means to jump out and say boo.

15. Fremdschämen (German); Myötähäpeä (Finnish)
The kinder, gentler cousins of Schadenfreude, both these words mean something akin to "vicarious embarrassment."

16. Lagom (Swedish)
Maybe Goldilocks was Swedish? This slippery little word is hard to define, but means something like, "Not too much, and not too little, but juuuuust right."

17. Pålegg (Norwegian)
Sandwich Artists unite! The Norwegians have a non-specific descriptor for anything - ham, cheese, jam, Nutella, mustard, herring, pickles, Doritos, you name it - you might consider putting into a sandwich.

18. Layogenic (Tagalog)
Remember in Clueless when Cher describes someone as "a full-on Monet...from far away, it's OK, but up close it's a big old mess"? That's exactly what this word means.

19. Bakku-shan (Japanese)
Or there's this Japanese slang term, which describes the experience of seeing a woman who appears pretty from behind but not from the front.

20. Seigneur-terraces (French)
Coffee shop dwellers who sit at tables a long time but spend little money.

21. Ya'arburnee (Arabic)
This word is the hopeful declaration that you will die before someone you love deeply, because you cannot stand to live without them. Literally, may you bury me.

22. Pana Po'o (Hawaiian)
"Hmm, now where did I leave those keys?" he said, pana po'oing. It means to scratch your head in order to help you remember something you've forgotten.

23. Slampadato (Italian)
Addicted to the UV glow of tanning salons? This word describes you.

24. Zeg (Georgian)
It means "the day after tomorrow." OK, we do have "overmorrow" in English, but when was the last time someone used that?

25. Cafune (Brazilian Portuguese)
Leave it to the Brazilians to come up with a word for "tenderly running your fingers through your lover's hair."

26. Koi No Yokan (Japanese)
The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love.

27. Kaelling (Danish)
You know that woman who stands on her doorstep (or in line at the supermarket, or at the park, or in a restaurant) cursing at her children? The Danes know her, too.

28. Boketto (Japanese)
It's nice to know that the Japanese think enough of the act of gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking to give it a name.

29. L'esprit de l'escalier (French)
Literally, stairwell wit-a too-late retort thought of only after departure.

30. Cotisuelto (Caribbean Spanish)
A word that would aptly describe the prevailing fashion trend among American men under 40, it means one who wears the shirt tail outside of his trousers.

31. Packesel (German)
The packesel is the person who's stuck carrying everyone else's bags on a trip. Literally, a burro.

32. Hygge (Danish)
Denmark's mantra, hygge is the pleasant, genial, and intimate feeling associated with sitting around a fire in the winter with close friends.

33. Cavoli Riscaldati (Italian)
The result of attempting to revive an unworkable relationship. Translates to "reheated cabbage."

34. Bilita Mpash (Bantu)
An amazing dream. Not just a "good" dream; the opposite of a nightmare.

35. Litost (Czech)
Milan Kundera described the emotion as "a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery."

36. Luftmensch (Yiddish)
There are several Yiddish words to describe social misfits. This one is for an impractical dreamer with no business sense.

37 & 38. Schlemiel and schlimazel (Yiddish)
Someone prone to bad luck. Yiddish distinguishes between the schlemiel and schlimazel, whose fates would probably be grouped under those of the klutz in other languages. The schlemiel is the traditional maladroit, who spills his coffee; the schlimazel is the one on whom it's spilled.
We compiled many of these words in these three posts from 2011 and 2012.

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38 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent

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Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a whole bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent. 1. Kummerspeck (German) Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon. 2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you're really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can't stop eating it?

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The Translators - Interpreting Donald Trump: The Daily Show

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By wsilver on Flickr Corporations do a ton of research before entering new markets. This leads chains like McDonald's and Starbucks to completely revamp their menus for consumers across Europe and Asia.

Even so, sometimes things slip through the cracks - like making sure the company's current slogan translates well abroad.

We came across a fantastic list in Brand Failures: The Truth About the 100 Biggest Branding Mistakes of All Time , and decided to do some further research. Here's our list of 13 now-rectified slogans that got completely lost in translation.

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By wsilver on Flickr Corporations do a ton of research before entering new markets. This leads chains like McDonald's and Starbucks to completely revamp their menus for consumers across Europe and Asia. Even so, sometimes things slip through the cracks - like making sure the company's current slogan translates well abroad.

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Tex's French Grammar is the integral grammar component of Français Interactif, an online French course from the University of Texas at Austin. Français Interactif includes authentic, spoken French language via digital audio and video clips, a French grammar reference (Tex's French Grammar), self-correcting French grammar exercises, vocabulary and phonetics sections, Internet-based activities, comparative cultural polling, and an electronic workbook.

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Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French, created for students in a three-hour semester course at the University of Texas at Austin. Students expand their knowledge of the French language and francophone cultures and continue the development of their communicative abilities by practicing the four basic skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading.

Enhancing French skills includes authentic language videos from French websites such as TV5 Enseigner.tv, France.fr, and RhôneAlpes.tv ( Média) as well as interviews of French speakers on cultural topics ( Rencontres). Videos and activities are organized into five broad themes and tagged by communicative language function with links into Tex's French Grammar for specific grammar explanations and interactive exercises. In addition to Tex's French Grammar, we also use as a text in this course Contextualized French Grammar: A Handbook, 1st edition, by Stacey Katz Bourns (Cengage: 2013).

Each theme is in the following pdf of suggested classroom activities and homework for the course:
All Thèmes Fall 2017
Exercises also reference selected chapters in the cultural reader La France au quotidien, 4th edition by Roselyn Roesch and Rosalba Rolle-Harold (Presses Universitatire de Grenoble: 2012).

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Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French, created for students in a three-hour semester course at the University of Texas at Austin. Students expand their knowledge of the French language and francophone cultures and continue the development of their communicative abilities by practicing the four basic skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading.