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Porsanger: Labor politician Kaare Olli refused to speak Norwegian at the municipal Council meeting because Mayor Knut Roger Hansen (Conservatives) refused to bring in Sami interpreter.
When the local board meeting began, Olli went up to the podium and informed the council that he had no intention to speak Norwegian. Olli announced that in his mother-tongue Sami.
"When their rights are violated, when they are marginalized and excluded, migrants will be unable to contribute either economically or socially to the societies they have left behind or those they enter. However, when supported by the right policies and human rights protections, migration can be a force for good for individuals as well as for countries of origin, transit and destination."
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Message for International Migrants Day 18 December 2011.
TV Viewers who for one reason or another find it difficult to read subtitles may have a great use for a new technology: multilingual speaking subtitles.
The Danish media enterprise DR announced yesterday on developing and further researching on speaking subtitles. DR is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. It was founded in 1925 as a public service organization.
Bilingualism is assumed to improve creativity but the mechanisms underlying creative acts, and the way these mechanisms are affected by bilingualism, are not very well understood. New research by researchers from Netherlands and Germany sheds more light on bilinguals' creativity (Download the entire research article in pdf here on morsmal.org).
Oslo: Six out of ten pupils at Stovner school has another mother tongue than Norwegian. Parents will not shut up and move in silence. They believe that the problems must be presented.
Parents are worried about the kids' social lives, education and future, and blame now the politicians for not taking the matter seriously.
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