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@Linguist_CIOL DecemBer/JaNuarY The Linguist 23 FEATURES Popular culture: 1. The Apprentice; 2. Made in Chelsea's Jamie Laing; 3. 10; 4. Prince harry. Animal business: 1. koko was known for learning sign language; 2. Fairy wrens; 3. she 'spoke' to firefighters in english, turkish and greek, including swear words; 4. 96% of gestures for expressing day-to-day requests. What language…: 1. Welsh; 2. French (part of President macron's plan for the language to overtake english); 3. Inupiaq; 4. Igbo and Yoruba; 5. rohingya; 6. gaelic (in scotland). Who said…: 1. DuP leader arlene Foster about a standalone Irish Language act; 2. google translate when translating 'dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog' from hawaiian into english; 3. a translator responding to calls to force the interpreters at a meeting between trump and Putin to reveal what the presidents talked about; 4. model tyra Banks of her two-year-old son; 5. Noam chomsky at a conference aimed at developing a 'universal language' for speaking with aliens. Faux pas: 1. Incompetent translations; 2. the board's French and spanish listening exams did not make sense; 3. chairman of the Barbican centre for arts and culture, giles shilson; 4. he called his wife 'delicious'. In numbers: 1. b; 2. b (20% of the population); 3. a; 4. c. Technology: 1. a robot language teacher; 2. google assistant; 3. a 3D-printed robotic arm; 4. Phrasebooks. Who's who: 1. surie recorded a British sign Language (BsL) version of her eurovision entry, 'storm'; 2. celebrated translator anthea Bell died aged 82; 3. Dumpling is the British council's new virtual mandarin-teaching pug; 4. andria Zafirakou won the $1m 'World's Best teacher' award after learning greetings in 35 native languages spoken at her school. Breaking research: 1. they found that learners who listened to words in the other language while asleep performed significantly better; 2. Dementia; 3. they will be less likely to lie/ cheat, according to university of chicago research; 4. Babies exposed to onomatopoeic words learn language more quickly; 5. 10. In the dock: 1. a father accused, with six other suspects, of an acid attack on his three-year- old son; 2. It showed him ranting at restaurant workers for speaking spanish; 3. he launched a discrimination case due to the lack of a gcse in his first language, BsL; 4. hawaiian. Schools out: 1. a network of secondaries to support improvements in language teaching; 2. cLIL centres of excellence; 3. Pupils from richer and poorer backgrounds; 4. chinese; 5. a virtual teacher was launched; 6. In reading and maths they progress 2-3 times more. Sports: 1. he forgot the interpreter, answering two questions in english without pausing; 2. they ordered 13,500 unwanted eggs due to a translation error; 3. Fans communicating at the World cup; 4. Discovery communications. Politics: 1. First use of BsL by a minister in Parliament; 2. afghan military interpreters; 3. 22 British mPs; 4. strike over changes to their working hours. What links…: 1. changed their names in april (from swaziland and the czech republic); 2. translations of Donald trump's "shithole countries" slur into chinese (taiwan), greek and Vietnamese; 3. hardest places for english- speaking tourists to pronounce, according to a Bolsover cruise club poll; 4. Literal translations of Vilnius, Bloemfontein and Buenos aires for a map by on the go tours. World view: 1. kazakhstan; 2. he advocated the use of tibetan in schools; 3. to support migrant families after the trump administration started separating them at the us border; 4. alaska; 5. the National museum of Brazil's Documentation center of Indigenous Languages was destroyed by fire; 6. 2,500. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Across 1. acronym of former czechoslovakia 1948- 1990. (1,1,1,1) 3. excited. (8) 9. modern name of city which theodor herzl called altneuland. (3,4) 10. 25 across load. (5) 11. 25 across leg coverings. (5) 12. Perhaps the best- known czech composer. (6) 14. hungarian language. (6) 16. 25 across creek. (6) 19. he said, "L'enfer, c'est les autres." (6) 21. 25 across square. (5) 24. Language of sri Lanka and southern India. (5) 25. european language. (7) 26. city from 25 across the meadows. (3,5) 27. units of resistance. (4) Crossword no.21 Solution, page 32 Down 1. underground tomb, originally in ancient rome. (8) 2. 25 across sauce. (5) 4. 25 across snowy state. (6) 5. 25 across hyper- masculine. (5) 6. 25 across twister. (7) 7. Vessel typical of the Persian gulf, Indian ocean etc. (4) 8. holy texts to the Zoroastrians. (6) 13. Painting media, like watercolours. (8) 15. units of weight. (7) 17. currency of Indonesia. (6) 18. From Japanese, 'a performer of art', she wears a kimono and obi. (6) 20. Diacritic used in 25 across. (5) 22. german-speaking community living in Pennsylvania. (5) 24. 'and the rest.' (2,2) Quiz of 2018 answers Quiz, page 18