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One of the hardest questions for evolutionary linguists is why humans speak at all. When people don’t share a language, they quickly resort to using their hands, rather than their voices: It’s easier to mime “drink” than it is to make a noise that sounds like drinking. Those gestures, over time, can easily blossom into full-fledged sign languages. “If gesture is good enough for language,” says Aleksandra Ćwiek, a linguistics Ph.D. student at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, “why the hell do we talk?”
In a new study, Ćwiek and her colleagues help answer that question: People from very different cultures can understand nonlinguistic vocal clues better than expected by chance, they find. Speakers of 28 languages could all successfully guess meanings in a charadeslike game where other people expressed words like “water” using vocal sounds but no language.
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Netflix has a massive global subscriber base and has proven its ability to create pop culture moments Tiger King was a breakout pandemic hit but is this the year it becomes an Oscars powerhouse, with several films in contention?
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From Brazil to Argentina to India, original series like The Queen s Gambit , Cobra Kai and Money Heist have earned fans especially with vast parts of the world trapped at home for months due to the coronavirus crisis.
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Students of the Institute of Foreign Languages Elena Petrova and Anna Zhestkova (specialization “Pedagogical Education”, profile “French and English”) and teacher of the Department of German and French languages Khankevich Ekaterina Andreevna are finishing their studies at the Higher School of Translators of the Free University of Brussels.
The Higher School of Translation and Interpretation (ISTI), which has been part of the Free University of Brussels since 2015, trains future translators in 9 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish and Russian. Thanks to international recognition and 60 years of experience (ISTI was founded in 1958), the School has signed cooperation and mobility agreements with 110 universities in more than 30 countries.