In S. Korea's language villages, the young get an English edge
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ANSAN, South Korea -- &quot;Next!&quot; barked Joanne Richardson, a bureaucratic-looking Canadian sitting behind a desk in a bustling hall marked &quot;Immigrations.&quot; She beckoned to a timid 15-year-old girl wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt.
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INCHEON, South Korea  - Korean Park Jung-ja spent the first six decades of her life on wind-swept Sakhalin, the bad breaks of the Cold War making her a citizen of nowhere. Now, she has finally found a home in suburban Seoul.
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In South Korea, once a rigidly patriarchal society, a centuries-old preference for baby boys is fast receding.
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South Korean teen-ager Lee Jun-ho hopes  to talk himself into a job someday -- in Chinese.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SEOUL, Korea (North) -- A group of 29 people claming to be North Koreans entered a school for South Koreans
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A third of people on the planet will be learning English in the next decade,  says a report.
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Some Flushing residents are studying Mandarin to be able to communicate with their new neighbors.
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Once villagers learn about their rights, NGO Tostan finds, they begin to reshape their communities in order to assert them.
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The proportion of primary school pupils with English as a second language has risen by 73% in a decade.
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It may be that when adults talk to babies, they use a language that is universally understood.
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ZENICA, Bosnia -- They met in 1985 as Syrian immigrants in Croatia, two students in their 20s grappling with a language and a culture they didn't understand.
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Number of students is on the rise among the schools with Latvian as the language of instruction.
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Off-colour language by young Russians is proving a money-spinner for authorities in a southern region.
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December 24, 2004 Many Koreans say we have a lot of things in common with the Italians.
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Global understanding could improve dramatically over the next 10 years through the simple fact that by 2015, a good proportion of the planet's population will be able to speak English, according to a recent study.
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The increased US focus on the region has deepened the incentive to learn its language and culture.
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BBC Click reports on the futuristic homes offering intelligent technology in South Korea.