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Languages and Business Today and Solutions for Tomorrow, Lisbon 1-2/10/2010

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Languages and Business Today and Solutions for Tomorrow

Lisbon (Portugal), 1 & 2 October 2010

The financial crisis recently struck the global economies and its effects continue to be felt. Our conference last year, in Geneva in 2009, showed how changes have been occurring quickly in the language industries and the training of trainers.
Along these lines, we invite you to continue this essential reflection and to join us for the conference entitled “Languages and Business Today and Solutions for Tomorrow” organised by the International Association Language and Business (IALB) and the international network Tradulex, in Lisbon, Portugal, on 1 and 2 October 2010.

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14ο ετήσιο συνέδριο MBA Society’s Business Week

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You can get the whole program for MBA Society’s Business Week, by clicking here. Original source: http://www.startupgreece.gov.gr/node/1145

Study shows unborn babies cry in their mother tongue, The Times 6/11/2009

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Hannah Devlin

Newborn babies mimic the intonation of their native tongue when they cry, indicating that they begin to pick up the first elements of language in the womb, a study suggests.

Scientists were already aware that babies are able to recognise certain sounds from birth, such as their parents’ voices, but they believed that infants were only able to imitate them from the age of about 12 weeks.

People Hear with Their Skin, As Well As Their Ears, Scientific American 26/11/2009

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A new study shows that the skin could help us hear by ‘feeling’ sounds

By Carina Storrs

The act of hearing is a group effort for the human body’s organs, involving the ears, the eyes and also, according to the results of a new study, the skin.