Spoken communication requires effort. At the same time, the relatively small number of important words and their uses can be learned fairly easily — but only if they are taught, writes Tiit Hennoste.

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They came to remember the Battle of Culloden of 1746, when the British army crushed the Jacobite rising. The ancient language repressed after that defeat—Gaelic—was everywhere at this event: heard in ...

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The same local theater companies that combined to create an American Sign Language-infused production of the musical “The Rocky Horror Show” last year at Manchester’s Cheney Hall are at it again, with ...

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In this extract from a new book on Sheffield’s musical history, Monkeys drummer Matt Helders plus the cream of the city’s indie scene look back on the febrile mid-00s – from brilliant tunes to ‘brainl ...

The Devil Wears Prada 2' is a disappointment on almost every level, but this one line from Miranda captures the essence of ...