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Set in Taiwan and Hawai'i, territories where languages of the Austronesian family are spoken, this experimental documentary focuses on the questions, desires and challenges of young indigenous peoples to learn the languages of their forebears— languages that are endangered or facing extinction. Using digital video as the primary medium of expression, four young indigenous women from divergent backgrounds together collaborate and exchange ideas to...
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Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for World Cinema/Dramatic, and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema, I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE follows a young linguist into the jungles of Mexico as he tries to learn about and preserve a mysterious indigenous language. A language, as he discovers, at the point of disappearing since the last two speakers had a fight fifty years ago and refuse to speak a word with each other. Trying...
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Sa scéal corraitheach codlata seo, déanann cailín beag cur síos ar an bhfáth go bhfuil a Mam thar cionn. Feicimid í ag dul tríd a lá, ag iompar an mhothúcháin is croíúla faoina máthair.Bíonn a fhios ag Mam i gcónaí conas a mhothaíonn sí agus is féidir léi cabhrú le haon fhadhb. Is féidir lena mam an trilseán is casta a dhéanamh agus codáin a mhíniú; Is féidir lena mam cabhrú í ag dúiseacht ar maidin agus barróg a thabhairt...
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Master the concise and expressive power of a pragmatic, multi-paradigm language for JVM, Android and beyond. The purpose of this book is to guide a reader through the capabilities of Kotlin language and give examples of how to use it for the development of various applications, be it desktop, mobile or Web. Although our primary focus is on JVM and Android, the knowledge we're sharing here, to various extents, applies to other Kotlin-supported platforms...
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Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language. Tammet goes back in time to explore the numeric language of his autistic childhood; he looks at the music and patterns that words make, and how languages evolve and...
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"Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language." As she searches...
11) I Hate PHP
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Learn The Basics Of PHP & MySQL Programming Without A Brain Overload!..."I Hate PHP" is for webmasters and designers who have always wondered what PHP could do for them; someone who wants to "do" some PHP and not outsource it. It is best to be familiar with HTML and writing / deciphering HTML code. You don't need to be a top-notch "I do it all in Notepad" kinda person - just being able to open up a text editor and understand the code is enough. Copy...
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Si quieres crear codigo compatible con la mayor parte de los navegadores existentes, JavaScript es el lenguaje de programacion web que necesitas.
Este libro se centra en la aplicacion de JavaScript en el ambito web y se basa en ECMAScript 6, la version de JavaScript mas utilizada en la actualidad. Gracias a las prestaciones mejoradas de los PC, la ejecucion de JavaScript es cada vez mas rapida, cosa que ha permitido ampliar su entorno de uso.
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JCL is the stuff of nightmares for many programmers and operators. This book explains JCL in such a way as to have it make sense. This book will help you learn how to tell the IBM MVS mainframe computer how and when to execute your programs. To do this you use a language called JCL, for Job Control Language. You use JCL to tell the mainframe how much memory and other resources your programs will need, how long each program should be allowed to run,...
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Discover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first. Other-Wordly is an irresistible ebook for lovers of words and those lost for words alike.
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If you want to discover how to get started with the Python programming language to help advance your computer programming career for this year and beyond, keep reading...
- Are you a Beginner who wants to know what Programming Language to learn that is highly in-demand this year and beyond?
- Would you like to find out how to learn a simple yet powerful computer language that's behind the world's leading sites such as Google, Instagram, Netflix,...
18) Arrival
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"When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors"--From www.imdb.com.
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